Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons from Efforts Worldwide

by Leigh Goodmark

Book Overview

The United States has uncritically exported its law and policy on gender violence without regard to effectiveness or cultural context, and without asking what we might learn from efforts to combat gender violence in the rest of the world. This book asks that question. Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons From Efforts Worldwide documents the global scope of gender violence, from countries where the legal response is just emerging to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199346577
• ISBN13: 9780199346578
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"