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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hautzinger, Sarah J., 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women.
Sex role.
Policewomen.
Masculinity.
Family violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
TRUE CRIME > General.
Rôle selon le sexe > Bresil > Bahia (État)
Masculinite > Bresil > Bahia (État)
Violence familiale > Bresil > Bahia (État)
Policieres > Bresil > Bahia (État)
Femmes > Bresil > Bahia (État)
Sex role > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Masculinity > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Family violence > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Policewomen > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Women > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Brazil > Bahia (State)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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