The trap of proximity violence : research and insights into male dominance and female resistance / Ignazia Bartholini.

This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "proximity violence". The first type of violence is exercised in multiple situations and in the generality of relationships experienced by p...

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Main Author: Bartholini, Ignazia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Violence and proximity violence : links and interpretative developments
  • 2. Deception and abuse : manifold instances of proximity violence against Sub-Saharan women
  • 3. Human trafficking : the viscous link between vulnerability and proximity violence
  • 4. Nostalgia and proximity violence : daily life and regressive mestizament
  • 5. Violence through words : cultural aspects and performative agency
  • 6. European Mediterranean women and the "showdown" between public emancipation and private self-oppression.