The meanings of violence / edited by Elizabeth A. Stanko.

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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvii, 250 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : conceptualising the meanings of violence / Elizabeth A. Stanko
  • Headlines from history : violence in the press, 1850-1914 / John Archer and Jo Jones
  • 'Jump on top, get the job done' : strategies employed by female prostitutes to reduce the risk of client violence / Graham Hart and Marina Barnard
  • Violence against children : thresholds of acceptance for physical punishment in a normative study of parents, children and discipline / Neal Hazel, Deborah Ghate, Susan Creighton, Julia Field and Steven Finch.
  • 'Taking it to heart' : girls and the meanings of violence / Michele Burman, Jane Brown and Susan Batchelor
  • 'Hi, I'm Ramon and I run this place' : challenging the normalisation of violence in children's homes from young people's perspectives / Emma Renold and Christine Barter
  • Understanding racist violence / Larry Ray, David Smith and Liz Wastell
  • The constitution of fear in gay space / Leslie J. Moran, Beverley Skeggs, Paul Tyrer and Karen Corteen
  • Defined by men's abuse : the 'spoiled identity' of domestic violence survivors / Rosemary Aris, Gill Hague and Audrey Mullender.
  • Bouncers and social context of violence : masculinity, class and violence in the night-time economy / Simon Winlow, Dick Hobbs, Stuart Lister and Phil Hadfield
  • Violence in a changing political context : Northern Ireland and South Africa / Colin Knox and Rachel Monaghan
  • Institutional violence : prison conflicts in context / Kimmett Edgar, Carol Martin and Ian O'Donnell
  • Violence, fear and 'the everyday' : negotiating spatial practice in the city of Belfast / Karen Lysaght and Anne Basten.