Overcoming Violence against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem - Softcover

Hatcher, William S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742525007 ISBN 13: 9780742525009

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

A vivid overview of the scope of the problem of genderbased violence worldwide, and a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael L. Penn is associate professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College and affiliate professor of psychology at Landegg International University, Switzerland. Rahel Nardos was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and is now a fourth year medical student at Yale University.

Review:

A compelling document illustrating the worldwide physical and mental abuses of women. Marrying the perspectives of thinkers, researchers, and practitioners, they offer statistics, stories, and cultural histories on their way toward issuing a call for action. Highly recommended. (CHOICE)

This book tells an important story powerfully and clearly. The story is important because it deals with one of the world's greatest current injustices which produces one of the world's greatest set of health problems. The book tells its story powerfully because it focuses on the moral foundations of human interaction. We won't create gender equality and rid the world of gender-based violence without wrestling with the attendant moral issues. Penn sets out these issues clearly and comprehensively. (W. Penn Handwerker, University of Connecticut)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0742525007
• ISBN 13: 9780742525009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272