Textbook
Gender Violence: A Cultural PerspectiveISBN: 978-0-631-22359-7
Paperback
224 pages
December 2008, ©2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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This acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growing
awareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward it
have lessened its incidence. If anything can make a difference,
however, this book will.
-Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago
-Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago
Gender Violence skillfully charts a tempered course through some
of the most charged and globally relevant issues today. Sally Merry
draws on her extensive and long-term research both to provide a
primer for neophytes in how to think about gender violence and a
sophisticated analysis of the structural conditions that unevenly
distribute those subject to it. With critical care, she adheres to
the complex and ambiguous social, personal, and political
predicaments that foster its occlusion while addressing how
activism has shaped the changing terms in which it is made visible,
confronted, and understood.
-Ann Laura Stoler, The New School