Violence Against Women in Canada
Author: Holly L. Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780195429817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes bibliographical references (p. [198]-226) and index.
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Challenging Violence Against Women
Author: Hague, Gill
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2001-03-28
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 1861342780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is widespread recognition among policy makers, professionals and activists in Britain that Canadian work on violence against women has been in the vanguard. This report brings together 'state-of-the-art' accounts of Canadian approaches to violence against women and discusses them in the context of current UK policy.
Dangerous Domains
Author: Holly Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen and Gendered Violence in Canada
Author: Chris Bruckert
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2018-11-23
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1442636165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViolence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men. While domestic violence and sexual assault are significant social problems, such a narrow framing obscures the diversity of women’s experience, fails to illuminate the role social structures play, and excludes discussions of workplace and state violence. By drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women. The first section of the book develops the conceptual and contextual framework that informs the remainder of the text, and the following three sections are organized around types of victimization: interpersonal, labour site, and state. Each chapter ends with lists of suggested activities, and first person narratives are integrated throughout to personalize the material and issues being examined.
Sexual Assault in Canada
Author: Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2012-09-29
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 0776619772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of the difficult issues that Canadian women face when reporting and prosecuting sexual violence. The volume addresses many themes including the systematic undermining of women who have been sexually assaulted, the experiences of marginalized women, and the role of women’s activism. It explores sexual assault in various contexts, including professional sports, the doctor–patient relationship, and residential schools. And it highlights the influence of certain players in the reporting and litigation of sexual violence, including health care providers, social workers, police, lawyers and judges. Sexual Assault in Canada provides both a multi-faceted assessment of the progress of feminist reforms to Canadian sexual assault law and practice, and articulates a myriad of new ideas, proposed changes to law, and inspired activist strategies. This book was created to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Jane Doe’s remarkable legal victory against the Toronto police for sex discrimination in the policing of rape and for negligence in failing to warn her of a serial rapist. The case made legal history and motivated a new generation of feminist activists. This book honours her pioneering work by reflecting on how law, legal practice and activism have evolved over the past decade and where feminist research and reform should lead in the years to come.
Cruel but Not Unusual
Author: Ramona Alaggia
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2013-05-21
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 1554588502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViolence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population—from very young children to the elderly—with far-reaching and often devastating consequences. Cruel but Not Unusual draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners to present readers with the latest research and thinking about the history, conditions, and impact of violence in these contexts. For this new edition, chapters have been updated to reflect changes in data and legislation. New chapters include an examination of trauma from a neurobiological perspective; a critical analysis of the “gender symmetry debate,” a debate that questions the gendered nature of intimate violence; and an essay on the history and evolution of the women’s movement dedicated to addressing violence against women, which advances theoretical developments that remind readers of the breadth of inclusivity that should be at the heart of working in this field.
Women and Gendered Violence in Canada
Author: Chris Bruckert
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1442636149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViolence against women is usually framed as an issue of interpersonal violence perpetuated by men. While domestic violence and sexual assault are significant social problems, such a narrow framing obscures the diversity of women's experience, fails to illuminate the role social structures play, and excludes discussions of workplace and state violence. By drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women. The first section of the book develops the conceptual and contextual framework that informs the remainder of the text, and the following three sections are organized around types of victimization: interpersonal, labour site, and state. Each chapter ends with lists of suggested activities, and first person narratives are integrated throughout to personalize the material and issues being examined.
Violence Against Indigenous Women
Author: Allison Hargreaves
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2017-08-24
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1771122501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViolence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed? Centring the voices of contemporary Indigenous women writers, this book argues for the important role that literature and storytelling can play in response to gendered colonial violence. Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers. Organized as a series of case studies that pair literary interventions with recent sites of activism and policy-critique, the book puts literature in dialogue with anti-violence debate to illuminate new pathways toward action. With the advent of provincial and national inquiries into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a larger public conversation is now underway. Indigenous women’s literature is a critical site of knowledge-making and critique. Violence Against Indigenous Women provides a foundation for reading this literature in the context of Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism and the ongoing intellectual history of Indigenous women’s resistance.
Violence Against Women
Author: Holly Johnson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-11-23
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0387732047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an international, comparative survey which interviews random samples of women about their experiences with male violence. The authors form a management team for the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS). The primary objective of IVAWS is to investigate the level and nature of victimization of women in a number of countries worldwide This work builds on the international network and experience of the European Institute of Crime Prevention and Control (HUENI).
Explaining Violence Against Women in Canada
Author: Douglas A. Brownridge
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780739101667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes a research study that used data from Statistics Canada's "Violence against women survey" to identify differing rates of marital violence affecting married and cohabiting females. It discusses why cohabitators and marrieds have been - but should not be - combined in analyses of violence, and demonstrates that those who cohabited with someone other than their husbands prior to getting married are more likely to experience violence than married women who have never cohabited with anyone other than their husbands.
