Gender and Violence in Haiti : Women's Path from Victims to Agents.
Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. In Gender and Violence in Haiti, award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visits Haiti to disco...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2014.
©2014 |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. In Gender and Violence in Haiti, award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visits Haiti to discover why these women act in such destructive ways and what might be done to stop this tragic cycle of violence. |
---|---|
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (188 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780813563169 081356316X 1306688957 9781306688956 0813563151 9780813563152 9780813563145 0813563143 |