Scars across humanity : understanding and overcoming violence against women / Elaine Storkey.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780830887453 (eBook)
- 362.88082Â 23
- HV 6250.4Â .W65
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Loan | Margaret Thatcher Library First Floor | HV 6250.4 .W65 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 23024350 |
Previously published: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Naming the problem -- A global pandemic -- Violence begins before birth: selective abortion and infanticide -- Cut for purity: female genital mutilation -- Early and enforced marriage: child abuse by another name -- Whose honour? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame -- Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: violence in the home -- Money, sex and violence: trafficking and prostitution -- Rape -- War and sexual violence -- Why gender-based violence? It's in our genes: exploring our evolutionary heritage -- Why gender-based violence? Power and patriarchy -- Religion and women -- Christianity and gender: a fuller picture.
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