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About this book
Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award - Politics and Public Life'Scrupulously researched and documented, illustrated with both statistics and personal stories, this is a book that changes perceptions and could play a substantive role in achieving change.' -Margaret Hebblethwaite, author and missionary in ParaguayPublished to coincide with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November 2015), Scars Across Humanity is a thoroughly documented investigation into the causes of violence against women, past and present. Global in scope, and addressing the issues as they affect women at every stage of life, this powerful book also offers a probing critique of evolutionary and social-scientific accounts of gender-based violence, and of the role that religion can play, for good or ill, in the struggle against this worldwide problem.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Praise for the book
- About the author
- Title page
- Imprint
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: naming the problem
- 1. A global pandemic
- 2. Violence begins before birth: selective abortion and infanticide
- 3. Cut for purity: female genital mutilation
- 4. Early and enforced marriage: child abuse by another name
- 5. Whose ‘honour’? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame
- 6. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: violence in the home
- 7. Money, sex and violence: trafficking and prostitution
- 8. Rape
- 9. War and sexual violence
- 10. Why gender-based violence? It’s in our genes: exploring our evolutionary heritage
- 11. Why gender-based violence? Power and patriarchy
- 12. Religion and women
- 13. Christianity and gender: a fuller picture
- Notes
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