Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women - Couverture souple

Storkey, Elaine

 
9780830852048: Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women
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ISBN 10 : 0830852042 ISBN 13 : 9780830852048
Editeur : IVP Academic, 2018

Synopsis

>Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public Life

Across the globe, acts of violence against women produce more deaths, disability, and mutilation than cancer, malaria, and traffic accidents combined.

The truth is that violence on such a scale could not exist were it not structured in some way into the very fabric of societies and cultures themselves. It could not continue if it were not somehow supported by deep assumptions about the value of women, or some justification of the use of power. In many cultures such assumptions are reiterated every day in the absence of legal protection for women, or indifference toward issues of human rights.

In Scars Across Humanity, Elaine Storkey offers a rigorously researched overview of this global pandemic. From female infanticide and child brides to domestic abuse, prostitution, rape, and honor killings, violence against women occurs at all stages of life, and in all cultures and societies. How and why has this violence become so prevalent? It seems ambitious to hope that we can find an answer to this question, but if violence to women is ever to be eliminated, we need to know what we are up against.

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À propos de l?auteur

Known for her work as a scholar, author, speaker, and journalist, Elaine Storkey has been a tireless advocate for the marginalized, both as the president of Tearfund, and then as cofounder of Restored, an international organization seeking to end violence against women. She is the author of numerous books, including Created or Constructed and What's Right with Feminism.

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Éditeur
IVP Academic
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0830852042
ISBN 13 
9780830852048
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0281075085 ISBN 13 :  9780281075089
Editeur : SPCK Publishing, 2015
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