Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India
Djamba Yanyi
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Description for Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India
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This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women's autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the levels and the socio-demographic determinants of domestic violence, but topics ranging from men's attitudes toward wife beating; domestic violence-related adolescent deaths, and women's health problems due to sexual and physical abuse. With a comprehensive introduction that provides a comparative international research framework for discussing gender-based violence in these three unique regions, this volume provides a key basis for ... Read more
This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women's autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the levels and the socio-demographic determinants of domestic violence, but topics ranging from men's attitudes toward wife beating; domestic violence-related adolescent deaths, and women's health problems due to sexual and physical abuse. With a comprehensive introduction that provides a comparative international research framework for discussing gender-based violence in these three unique regions, this volume provides a key basis for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
243
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319166698
SKU
V9783319166698
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99-15
About Djamba Yanyi
Yanyi K. Djamba is Director of the Center for Demographic Research and Professor of Sociology at Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Louisiana State University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Djamba has previously worked at Brown University and Southeastern Louisiana University, ... Read more
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