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Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
(May 2012)
Ann V. Murphy - Author
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Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.
Images of violence enjoy a particular privilege in contemporary continental philosophy, one manifest in the ubiquity of violent metaphors and the prominence of a kind of rhetorical investment in violence as a motif. Such images have also informed, constrained, and motivated recent continental feminist theory. In Violence and t...(Read More) |
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Transnationalism Reversed
(October 2011)
Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh
Elora Halim Chowdhury - Author
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2012 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize presented by the National Women’s Studies Association
Examines transnational movement building through a focus on acid attacks and organizing against acid violence in Bangladesh.
Acid attacks against women and girls have captured the attention of the global media, with several high-profile reports ranging from the BBC to The Oprah Winfrey Show. In Bangladesh,...(Read More) |
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Fighting for Girls
(September 2010)
New Perspectives on Gender and Violence
Meda Chesney-Lind - Editor
Nikki Jones - Editor
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Cutting-edge research into trends and social contexts of girls’ violence.
Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with “bad girls,” facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data available about actual trends in girls’ uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtually any measure, incidents of ...(Read More) |
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Ideologies of Forgetting
(March 2010)
Rape in the Vietnam War
Gina Marie Weaver - Author
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First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Rape has long been a part of war, and recent conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur demonstrate that it may be becoming an even more integral strategy of modern warfare. In contrast to the media attention to sexual violence against women in these recent conflicts, however, the incidence and consequences of rape in the Vietnam Wa...(Read More) |
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Toward a Credible Pacifism
(September 2009)
Violence and the Possibilities of Politics
Dustin Ells Howes - Author
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Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.
Advocates of pacifism usually stake their position on the moral superiority of nonviolence and have generally been reluctant or unwilling to concede that violence can be an effective means of conducting politics. In this compelling new work, which draws its examples from both everyday experience and the history of Western political thought, author ...(Read More) |
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Family Violence
(January 2009)
Communication Processes
Dudley D. Cahn - Editor
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Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children.
Although the United States has a high level of affluence and education compared to much of the rest of the world, neither wealth nor schooling ensures personal safety, particularly within the family and home. Every ten seconds, a child is beaten, neglected, or molested by his or her ow...(Read More) |
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Race and Police Brutality
(November 2008)
Roots of an Urban Dilemma
Malcolm D. Holmes - Author
Brad W. Smith - Author
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Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.
What causes police brutality, and why are minority citizens the primary victims? Social scientists often attribute the behavior to poorly managed police departments, bad cops, or the interests of the powerful in controlling minorities perceived as criminal threats. Malcolm D. Holmes and Br...(Read More) |
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Black Haze
(January 2004)
Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities
Ricky L. Jones - Author
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The first book solely devoted to the subject of black fraternity hazing.
As a fraternity member, past chapter president, and former national committee representative, Ricky L. Jones is uniquely qualified to write about the sometimes deadly world of black fraternity hazing. Examining five major black Greek-letter fraternities, Jones maintains that hazing rituals within these fraternities are more deeply ingrained, physically violent, a...(Read More) |
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Brickyards to Graveyards
(September 2002)
From Production to Genocide in Rwanda
Villia Jefremovas - Author
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Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.
Brickyards to Graveyards examines how the overidealized picture of Rwanda as the darling of the world community in the 1980s was shattered amidst the genocide that occurred a decade later. The brick and tile industries of Rwanda provide a microcosm to examine the transformation of gender, class, and power relations t...(Read More) |
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Femicidal Fears
(October 2001)
Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience
Helene Meyers - Author
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Argues that contemporary female Gothic novels of death can, in fact, breathe new life into feminist debates about victimization, essentialism, agency, and the body.
In Femicidal Fears, Helene Meyers examines contemporary femicidal plots—plots in which women are killed or fear for their lives—to argue that these female Gothic novels of death actually bring the nuances of feminist thought to life. Through her examination of w...(Read More) |
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