Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women - Softcover

Storkey, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0281075085 ISBN 13: 9780281075089

Publisher: SPCK Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Every three seconds, a girl under the age of 18 is married somewhere across the world usually without her consent and sometimes to a much older man. Combining rigorous research and compelling personal testimonies, Elaine Storkey investigates the different forms of violence experienced by women across the globe today. From female infanticide and child brides to domestic abuse, prostitution, rape and honour killings, violence against women occurs at all stages of life, and in all cultures and societies. How and why has this violence become so prevalent? Storkey examines the answers that are commonly offered, including theories based on evolutionary psychology and the rise of patriarchal power structures. She also considers the role that religion can play for good or ill in the struggle against this universal injustice.

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About the Author

Elaine Storkey is a philosopher, sociologist and theologian, having held posts at the Open University, King's College, London, and the University of Oxford. In 1997 she became President of Tearfund, and has since been involved in monitoring aid, relief and advocacy work in countries of the Global South. In 2010 she and her husband Alan became founder members of Restored, an organisation committed to advocating against violence to women. Storkey lectures across the world, including in Haiti, India and Ethiopia, and is a prominent feminist evangelical. Her writings have brought a biblical perspective to the feminist movement, and include What's Right with Feminism (SPCK/Eerdmans, 1985), The Search for Intimacy (Hodder/Eerdmans, 1994) and The Origins of Difference (Baker, 2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0281075085
• ISBN 13: 9780281075089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290