Women's Encounters with Violence - Australian Experiences (Paperback, illustrated edition)

The issue of violence against women in countries around the world continues to receive increasing public, media, political, and scholarly attention. While research findings in WomenAEs Encounters of Violence in Australia are framed within a specific perspective, they extend beyond national boundaries to provide a critical analysis needed to change political and social policies worldwide. Editors Sandy Cook and Judith Bessant introduce the history of violence in Australia and examine how culturally embedded laws and customs have acted like locks on womenAEs oppression. In addition to culture-specific topics such as the injustices suffered by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, the contributors also explore issues that cross cultural boundaries, including violence against women with disabilities, homeless women, and lesbians. Promoting a crucial international context to this pervasive problem, WomenAEs Encounters of Violence in Australia proves an excellent supplemental text for students as well as an accessible and timely resource for a broad range of professionals in counseling, social work, health care, and law and faculty in sociology, public policy, and womenAEs studies.

General

Imprint:	Sage Publications Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SAGE Series on Violence against Women
Release date:	August 1997
First published:	July 1997
Editors:	Sandra Cook • Judith Bessant
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7619-0432-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
LSN:	0-7619-0432-8
Barcode:	9780761904328

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