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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 26 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008533106 | ISBN 10: 0008533105
This is a book that calls time on the endless tide of violence against women and the failures of our criminal justice system to respond. Â From barrister Harriet Johnson, Enough lays bare the appalling status quo of abuse against women in our soci ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781350267572 | ISBN 10: 1350267570
When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker, she expected attention but not an avalanche of abuse and harassment, predominantly from men, online. All women in politics, journalism and academia now fac ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745345673 | ISBN 10: 0745345670
Translated by Melissa Thackway. The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gender ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571332724 | ISBN 10: 0571332722
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence – particularly against women – become exponentially more prominent and visible across the world? Tracking mu ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780244498344 | ISBN 10: 0244498342
She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was too confident. She walked home alone. She stayed in that relationship. She was naïve. She didn't report soon enough. She didn't fight back. She wanted i ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781629635682 | ISBN 10: 1629635685
We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807088982 | ISBN 10: 0807088986
A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781620972571 | ISBN 10: 1620972573
Former Boko Haram captives tell their terrifying and heartbreaking stories to a leading European journalist. "Over a six-year insurgency, Boko Haram has forced two million Nigerians from their homes, with upwards of one million refugees in Maidugu ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784702755 | ISBN 10: 1784702757
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471153921 | ISBN 10: 1471153924
In 1973, Sue Lloyd Roberts joined ITN as a news trainee and went on to be the UK's first female video-journalist to report alone from the bleak outposts of the Soviet Union, China and Iran. During her 30-year-long career she travelled the world and w ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780822362951 | ISBN 10: 0822362953
The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically reposi ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908434692 | ISBN 10: 1908434694
A devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt. It’s 1977 and Una is twelve. A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police are ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781843923985 | ISBN 10: 184392398x
Violence against women is an enduring problem around the globe, yet very few books look at the full range of men's violences against women - perpetrated in relationships, in the family, in public spaces, and in institutions. While books that look at ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844088881 | ISBN 10: 184408888x
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45 - and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up ... more
View book details£41.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780415996082 | ISBN 10: 0415996082
Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. In the past, there has been an understandable relucta ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848139589 | ISBN 10: 1848139586
Is the practice of FGM on the rise in the UK and US? Why? What happens to religious and cultural traditions when they are taken from their context into a new, often secular, state? Women, Violence and Tradition is a fascinating look into the life his ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955882708 | ISBN 10: 0955882702
This book explains violent and abusive behaviour and places it in a social context. It can help readers of any age and sexual orientation to change their own behaviour and to recognise when they are being controlled. Reader reviews: ... more
View book details£30.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843923503 | ISBN 10: 1843923505
Violence and Sex Work in Britain explores violence and homicide in the context of sex work, showing how current law and repressive policing tactics exacerbate vulnerability. It exposes inadequacies in the criminal justice system, leading to failures ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566172 | ISBN 10: 0863566170
Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781861349613 | ISBN 10: 1861349610
This book is born of a contradiction: on the one hand, there has been a genuine advance in the awareness of violence against women and children and actions to oppose it. On the other, the violence persists and so does the counter-attack against those ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415422642 | ISBN 10: 0415422647
Everyone working in health and social care is at one point or another confronted by violent behaviour and its consequences. Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression provides a broad overview of violence in relation to a range of groups and areas tha ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843920403 | ISBN 10: 1843920409
There has been growing interest and concern about the topic of violence against women, reflected in a number of government policy initiatives and research projects on the subject. A wide range of methodological issues has arisen from this, but there ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781551642628 | ISBN 10: 155164262x
Obsession, With Intent is an investigative report into one hundred cases of violence against women; in all cases the women tried to get help from the system. It is a harrowing account of individual women's stories, their understanding of the danger t ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780553816303 | ISBN 10: 0553816306
When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family - a dishonour punishable by death. This was her crime, and her brother-in-law was given the task of ... more
View book details£37.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780700717422 | ISBN 10: 0700717420
Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such viol ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780415040990 | ISBN 10: 041504099x
Violence against women in the home is a major social problem. Most published work understandably concentrates on the victims, but this book looks at the perpetrators. Considering both feminist approaches to male violence and those perspecti ... more
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