Violence in the City of Women - Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil (Paperback)

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. Sarah J. Hautzinger's vividly detailed, accessibly written study explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia. Hautzinger brings together distinct voices - unexpectedly macho policewomen, the battered women they are charged with defending, indomitable Bahian women who disdain female victims, and men who grapple with changing pressures related to masculinity and honor. What emerges is a view of Brazil's policing experiment as a pioneering, and potentially radical, response to demands of the women's movement to build feminism into the state in a society fundamentally shaped by gender.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	September 2007
Authors:	Sarah J. Hautzinger
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	366
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-25277-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Domestic violence
LSN:	0-520-25277-2
Barcode:	9780520252776

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