Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide ProblemRowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 255 pagini This book provides university students, policy makers, activists, public health workers, clinicians, and lay citizens alike with a vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, as well as a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it. An integration of a vast range of data and insights from all the major disciplines that have contributed to our understanding of this problem, this book is invaluable as a classroom text. The authors have been guided throughout this work by the desire to contribute a document that would move the current international discourse along by providing an historical, interdisciplinary overview that is at once critical, constructive, and visionary. |
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Sexual Violence against Women and Girls | 41 |
Physical Abuse | 71 |
Culture Traditional Practices and GenderBased Violence | 87 |
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