The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence
eBook - ePub

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence

  1. 656 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence

About this book

Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as 'evil', 'unnatural' and masculine. Favouring more complex analyses of this behaviour, The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women's Acts of Violence highlights and challenges normative accounts of women's violence and offers new multidimensional conceptualisations of these acts, furthering understanding of this topic from a feminist perspective.

Responding to a growing research interest, contributors present a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of international and interdisciplinary scholarship on different aspects of women's violence. Drawing on both empirical and secondary data, chapters incorporate familiar themes of intimate violence, homicide, terrorism and combat as well as wider content such as women's involvement in violent nationalist movements and their role in perpetrating obstetric harms.

The only publication of its kind in terms of its scope, interdisciplinarity and feminist perspective, The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women's Acts of Violence breaks fresh ground by unveiling how violence is understood and enabling new links and connections to be made across previously disparate areas.

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Yes, you can access The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence by Stacy Banwell, Lynsey Black, Dawn K. Cecil, Yanyi K. Djamba, Sitawa R. Kimuna, Emma Milne, Lizzie Seal, Eric Y. Tenkorang, Stacy Banwell,Lynsey Black,Dawn K. Cecil,Yanyi K. Djamba,Sitawa R. Kimuna,Emma Milne,Lizzie Seal,Eric Y. Tenkorang in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sozialwissenschaften & Kriminologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. About the Contributors
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. Historical Perspectives
  11. Understanding Women’s Acts of Violence
  12. Women as Perpetrators of Interpersonal and Intimate Violence
  13. Power and Women’s Violence
  14. Women and Non-State Political Violence
  15. Cultural Interpretations of Violent Women
  16. Fictional Representations of Violent Women
  17. Violent Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System