Violence against Women : : Philosophical Perspectives / / ed. by Stanley G. French, Laura M. Purdy, Wanda Teays.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Clelia Smyth,; Asefa, Semra,; Brison, Susan J.,; Burton, Nadya,; Dandekar, Natalie,; Debruin, Debra A.,; Eiser, Arnold R.,; Estes, Yolanda,; Kazan, Patricia,; Mackinnon, Catharine A.,; Nazneen, Roksana,; Pacillo, Edith L.,; Teays, Wanda,; Wilkerson, Abby L.,
• HerausgeberIn: French, Stanley G.,; Purdy, Laura M.,; Teays, Wanda,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

This is the first anthology to take a theoretical look at violence against women. Each essay shows how philosophy provides a powerful tool for examining a difficult and deep-rooted social problem. Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays, and Laura M. Purdy, all philosophers, present a familiar phenomenon in a new and striking fashion.The editors employ a two-tiered approach to this vital issue. Contributors consider both interpersonal violence, such as rape and battering; and also systemic violence, such as sexual harassment, pornography, prostitution, and violence in a medical context. The editors have further broadened the discussion to include such cross-cultural issues as rape in war, dowry deaths, female genital mutilation, and international policies on violence against women. Against this wide range of topics, which integrate personal perspectives with the philosophical, the contributors offer powerful analyses of the causes and effects of violence against women, as well as potential policies for effecting change.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- SECTION 1. SEXUAL ASSAULT -- 1. Surviving Sexual Violence: A Philosophical Perspective -- 2. Sexual Assault and the Problem of Consent -- 3. Rape, Genocide, and Women's Human Rights -- SECTION 2. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE -- 4. Standards of Perfection and Battered Women's Self-defense -- 5. Violence in Bangladesh -- 6. Female Genital Mutilation: Violence in the Name of Tradition, Religion, and Social Imperative -- SECTION 3. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN LEGAL AND MEDICAL CONTEXTS -- 7. Identifying Sexual Harassment: The Reasonable Woman Standard -- 8. "Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy": The Medicalization of Violence against Women -- SECTION 4. PORNOGRAPHY AND PROSTITUTION -- 9. Media Liability for Personal Injury Caused by Pornography -- 10. The Myth of the Happy Hooker: Kantian Moral Reflections on a Phenomenology of Prostitution -- SECTION 5. POLICIES AND PERSPECTIVES ON VIOLENCE -- 11. Violence and Transcultural Values -- 12. International Development Paradigms and Violence -- 13. Resistance to Prevention: Reconsidering Feminist Antiviolence Rhetoric -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index