Crimes against women /
This book presents a survey of acts of violence, past and present, that women have endured throughout the world. The articles take a broad variety of approaches, ranging from the philosophical and legalistic to the narrative reporting of contributors working in the field.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
c2011.
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Colección: | Women's issues.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The laws governing crimes against women constituting Obligatio Erga Omnes / Farhad Malekian
- The human rights design: a critique of "universality" in a patriarchal world / Ruchi Anand
- Ethical and meta-ethical approaches to violence against women / Angèle Kremer-Marietti
- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002): the impact of the coalition of women's groups / Cenap Cakmak
- Rape and other sexual violence against women and girls in armed conflict: a legal look at the issues / Eileen Servidio
- Defining rape in conflict-affected areas / Robynn Collins
- Wartime rape in the Congo / Stefan Kirchner
- Imperial Japan and its "comfort women" / David Wingate Pike
- Women SS-guards in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Elissa Mailänder Koslov
- Women in prisoners' brothels in Nazi Germany / Brigitte Halbmayr
- The HIV-antidote myth and infant rape in South Africa / Tomoyuki (Tom) Hashimoto and Ashley Hughes
- Rape among the Shona in Zimbabwe / Tyanai Charamba
- Domestic, community and state-sponsored violence in Nigeria / J. Shola Omotola and Saheed Aderinto
- Vesico-vaginal fistula in Nigeria / Mairo V. Bello Garko
- Multi-faceted violence against women in Kenya / Lydiah W. Nganga
- Female genital mutilation in Kenya / Grace B. Nyamongo
- Female genital mutilation in Senegal and Somalia / Tobe Levin
- Patriarchal dominance and female subservience in Ethiopia / Melissa Krall
- Honour killings and the law in Turkey / Ece Göztepe
- Female suicide in Afghanistan / Carol Mann
- An Ngo's long-term strategy in Pakistan / Naeem Sarfraz
- Dowries in India / Ruchi Anand
- The dalit women of India / Rajeni Chagar
- Acid attacks in Bangladesh / Mahera Khaleque
- The Jhumma women of Bangladesh / Anonymous
- Trafficking in women in Russia / Anonymous
- Abuse of women in medieval and early modern Spain / Isabel Pérez Molina
- Forced marriage as a foreign policy issue in the United Kingdom / Sir Christopher MacRae
- A celebrated lynching in the United States / Carol Bowers.