Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 342 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520252764
,
0520252772
,
0520941152
,
1433708965
,
1435611438
,
9780520252769
,
9780520252776
,
9780520941151
,
9781433708961
,
9781435611436
Inhalt:
Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia
Inhalt:
Introduction: violence in Salvador da Bahia, city of women -- Womanly webs: in-laws and violence -- When cocks can't crow: masculinity and violence -- Paths to a police station -- Policing by and for women -- Reluctant champions: policewomen or women police? -- Conclusion and epilogue
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hautzinger, Sarah J., 1963- Violence in the city of women Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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