- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (January 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 074252499X
- ISBN-13: 978-0742524996
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 463 g
- See Complete Table of Contents
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A compelling document illustrating the worldwide physical and mental abuses of women. Marrying the perspectives of thinkers, researchers, and practitioners, they offer statistics, stories, and cultural histories on their way toward issuing a call for action. Highly recommended. (Choice )
This book tells an important story powerfully and clearly. The story is important because it deals with one of the world's greatest current injustices which produces one of the world's greatest set of health problems. The book tells its story powerfully because it focuses on the moral foundations of human interaction. We won't create gender equality and rid the world of gender-based violence without wrestling with the attendant moral issues. Penn sets out these issues clearly and comprehensively. (Handwerker, W Penn )
This book tells an important story powerfully and clearly. The story is important because it deals with one of the world's greatest current injustices which produces one of the world's greatest set of health problems. The book tells its story powerfully because it focuses on the moral foundations of human interaction. We won't create gender equality and rid the world of gender-based violence without wrestling with the attendant moral issues. Penn sets out these issues clearly and comprehensively. (Handwerker, W Penn )
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"This book provides university students, policy makers, activists, public health workers, clinicians and lay citizens alike with a vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, as well as a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it. An integration of a vast range of data and insights from all the major disciplines that have contributed to our understanding of this problem, this book is invaluable as a classroom text. The authors have been guided throughout this work by the desire to contribute a document that would move the current international discourse along by providing an historical, interdisciplinary overview that is at once critical, constructive and visionary."
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Excellent for use as a textbook or personal activist agenda, Feb 19 2007
By Rhett Diessner "Professor of Psychology" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem (Paperback)
Penn and Nardos' text is beautifully written about a very painful topic. The carefully documented evidence of discrimination and violence against women and girls, that the book provides, would be depressing and demoralizing if the authors hadn't also offered a variety of solutions, both interpersonal and systemically-global, to stop such violence. The book has a sophisticated integration of data-based research, ethical reasoning, and spiritual insights. It galvanized me to examine my own inner prejudices and motivated me to increase my personal response to gendered based violence. Members and employees of our local YWCA, which maintains a battered women's (domestic violence) shelter, have praised the book to me. I have been recommending the text to all my psychology students at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho (and had a copy purchased by our college library).
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