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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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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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