SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Gender inequality has remained one of the major social issues represented in contemporary African literature. Women are often subjected to silence, oppression, domestic violence, and patriarchal domination within both family and society. Contemporary women writers therefore use literature as a medium to question these unequal power structures and to represent female identity, resistance, and liberation. Chimamanda N…

Reference · Wikidata

acts of violence between people living in the same household

Book · DOAB

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Gender Violence, the Law, and Society analyses and explores the historical and cultural roots of issues of gender-based and sexual violence in Japan, India and South Africa. Using a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods, this edited collection highlights the intersection of marg…

Full text · Open Library

Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others but destroy themselves rather than suffer a loss of self-respect. With devastating clarity, Gilligan traces the role that shame plays in the etiology of murder and explains why our present penal system only exacerbates it…

Image · DPLA

Issue 56.3 of the Review for Religious, May/June 1997.