Violence against Women : : Philosophical Perspectives /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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

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