Authors: Jessica Schiffman, Margie Edwards, Laura O'Toole
ISBN-13: 9780814762103, ISBN-10: 0814762107
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: August 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition
Laura L. O'Toole is Professor of Sociology at Roanoke College.
Jessica R. Schiffman is Assistant Director of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware.
Margie L. Kiter Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Shep
Margie L. Kiter Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Shepherd University.
From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and around the world.
In the fully revised second edition of this path-breaking anthology, the editors bring together emerging scholarship from feminist, post-modern,
and queer theory with classic articles and central authors in the fields of gender, sexuality and violence. This edition features a new comprehensive introduction, revised section introductions, and eighteen new selections,
including original articles on sex trafficking, masculinity and terrorism, and community responses to gender violence. Other topics represented in this volume include sexual harassment and violence in schools and workplaces,
child abuse, intimate partner violence, and pornography.
Innovative theoretical and empirical articles written by scholars from fields such as law, history, and the social sciences appear alongside solution-focused pieces developed by activists, academics, and poets committed to creating a non-violent world.
Preface: Conceptualizing Gender Violence | ||
Sect. 1 | The Roots of Male Violence against Women | 3 |
"Visit from the Footbinder" | 10 | |
1 | The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State | 11 |
2 | The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men's Violence | 30 |
3 | The Socio-Cultural Context of Rape: A Cross-Cultural Study | 52 |
Sect. 2 | Gender Violence in the United States | 67 |
"Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices" | 74 | |
4 | Sexual Coercion in American Life | 80 |
5 | Varieties of "Real Men" | 92 |
6 | Sexual Terrorism | 110 |
Sect. 1 | Sexual Harassment | 131 |
"Anatomy Lesson" | 138 | |
7 | Obscene and Threatening Telephone Calls to Women: Data from a Canadian National Survey | 139 |
8 | Dames at Sea: Life in the Naval Academy | 146 |
9 | Changed Women and Changed Organizations: Consequences of and Coping with Sexual Harassment | 151 |
10 | The Victimizations of Women | 165 |
Sect. 2 | Rape | 173 |
"The Rape" | 182 | |
11 | A Feminist Redefinition of Rape and Sexual Assault: Historical Foundations and Change | 184 |
12 | Undeclared War: African-American Women Writers Explicating Rape | 194 |
13 | Raped: A Male Survivor Breaks His Silence | 209 |
14 | Subcultural Theory of Rape Revisited | 215 |
15 | The Global Health Burden of Rape | 223 |
Sect. 3 | Battering in Intimate Relationships | 243 |
"To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons" | 252 | |
16 | Nothing New under the Sun: Spouse Abuse in Colonial America | 254 |
17 | Violence against Women | 266 |
18 | Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Feminist Perspective | 279 |
19 | Violence in Lesbian and Gay Relationships | 285 |
20 | Violence, Gender, and Elder Abuse: Toward a Feminist Analysis and Practice | 294 |
Sect. 4 | Children and Gender Violence | 305 |
"The Second Photograph" | 313 | |
21 | Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control | 314 |
22 | Who Stole Incest? | 331 |
23 | Child Sexual Abuse and the Regulation of Women: Variations on a Theme | 336 |
24 | Definition and Scope of the Problem | 352 |
Sect. 1 | Pornography and Violence: A Contested Social Problem | 365 |
"Philadelphia Story: September 1987" | 373 | |
25 | The Female Nude: Pornography, Art, and Sexuality | 374 |
26 | Conflicting Ideologies and the Politics of Pornography | 383 |
27 | Pornography and Black Women's Bodies | 395 |
28 | Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech | 400 |
29 | Pornography and Violence: What the "Experts" Really Say | 414 |
Sect. 2 | Changing Our Minds: Toward Nonviolence in Gender Relations | 423 |
30 | Beyond the Masculine Mystique | 428 |
31 | Violence, Gender, and Social Change | 435 |
32 | Violence against Women or Family Violence? Current Debates and Future Directions | 443 |
33 | Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality | 454 |
34 | The Reality of Linguistic Violence against Women | 467 |
35 | Action | 474 |
Bibliography | 483 | |
Index | 523 |