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  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction: The Emergence of Violence against Women as a Social Problem Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen; Part I Forms of Violence against Women; 1 ""Riding the Bull at Gilley's"": Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla; 2 The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence Russell R Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Margo Wilson, and Martin Daly; 3 Safe Conduct: Women, Crime, and Self in Public Places Carol Brooks Gardner.
  • 4 On Being Stalked Robert M. Emerson, Kerry O. Ferris, and Carol Brooks Gardner5 The Locker Room and the Dorm Room: Workplace Norms and the Boundaries of Sexual Harassment in Magazine Editing Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams; Part II Institutional Responses to Violence against Women; 6 Prosecutorial Justifications for Sexual Assault Case Rejection: Guarding the ""Gateway to Justice"" Cassia Spohn, Dawn Beichner, and Erika Davis-Frenzel; 7 Gender, Accounts, and Rape Processing Work Patricia Yancey Martin; 8 Policing Woman Battering Kathleen J. Ferraro.
  • 9 Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women: Resistance to Medicalization Demie Kurz10 The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered Women Donileen R. Loseke and Spencer E. Cahill; Part III Feminist Activism and Social Change; 11 The Battered Woman Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Kathleen J. Tierney; 12 Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill Patricia Gagné; Sources; Index; About the Editors.