Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls

Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0742525007
ISBN-13 : 9780742525009
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Download or read book Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls written by Michael L. Penn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides university students, policy makers, activists, public health workers, clinicians, and lay citizens alike with a vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, as well as a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it. An integration of a vast range of data and insights from all the major disciplines that have contributed to our understanding of this problem, this book is invaluable as a classroom text. The authors have been guided throughout this work by the desire to contribute a document that would move the current international discourse along by providing an historical, interdisciplinary overview that is at once critical, constructive, and visionary.


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