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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hautzinger, Sarah J., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Women > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Policewomen > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Family violence > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Masculinity > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Sex role > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Femmes > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Policières > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Violence familiale > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Masculinité > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Rôle selon le sexe > Brésil > Bahia (État)
TRUE CRIME > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Family violence.
Masculinity.
Policewomen.
Sex role.
Women.
Brazil > Bahia (State)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: violence in Salvador da Bahia, city of women
  • Womanly webs: in-laws and violence
  • When cocks can't crow: masculinity and violence
  • Paths to a police station
  • Policing by and for women
  • Reluctant champions: policewomen or women police?
  • Conclusion and epilogue.

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