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Violence in the city of women : police and batterers in Bahia, Brazil /

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gende...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hautzinger, Sarah J., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 342 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.
ISBN:9780520941151
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