Women and violence : the agency of victims and perpetrators /: the agency of victims and perpetrators. (2015)
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- Title:
- Women and violence : the agency of victims and perpetrators /: the agency of victims and perpetrators. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Women and violence : the agency of victims and perpetrators
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Herjeet Marway, Lecturer, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and Heather Widdows, John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- Other Names:
- Marway, Herjeet, 1979-
Widdows, Heather, 1972- - Contents:
- Introduction; Heather Widdows; Herjeet Marway; ; PART I. WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE; 1. Rape, women's autonomy, and male complicity; Sarah Sorial; Jacqui Poltera; 2. Women between agency and coercion; Elena Alonzo; 3. Prostitution and the concept of agency; Rhéa Jean; ; PART II. WOMEN AS PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE; 4. Self-harm as violence: when victim and perpetrator are one; Hanna Pickard; This chapter is available under a CC BY license via palgraveconnect.com ; ; 5. Autonomy, value and violence: assessing substantive accounts of autonomy; Jules Holroyd; 6. Female suicide bombers and autonomy; Herjeet Marway; 7. Women raping men; Iain Law; ; PART III. GOVERNANCE, VIOLENCE AND AGENCY; 8. Andrea Dworkin's Pornography: men possessing women – a reassessment; Bob Brecher; 9. Violence, techno-transcendence and feminism: thinking about agency in the digital age; Gillian Youngs; 10. 'Not Just Victims…But': Towards a Critical Theory of the Victim; Robin May Schott; ; PART IV. THEORISING VIOLENCE AND AGENCY; 11. Women's agency and the fallacy of autonomy: the example of rape and sexual consent; Paul Reynolds; 12. What is violence?; Amanda Cawston; 13. Ontology, freedom and the body that can birth; Alison Assiter;
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Subjects:
- 362.88082
Violence in Society
Women -- Violence against
Women -- Crimes against
Violence in women
Social
Violence in society
Social & political philosophy
Ethical issues & debates
Feminism & feminist theory - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137015136
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