| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
gender, violence and transformation in Brazil |
| Author: |
WildingPolly, 1973- |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (174 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Gender and politics series |
| Subject: |
Violence - Brazil. - |
| Subject: |
Women - Violence against - Brazil. - |
| Subject: |
Family violence - Brazil. - |
| Subject: |
PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137295927 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
"The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro are renowned for their high levels of urban violence at the hands of gangs and the police. This book problematises the exclusive focus on men as the victims of these wars played out on city streets, an approach which serves to trivialize and sideline the experiences and victimization of women. Nevertheless, women are both actors and victims in these wars, as well as suffering from distinct forms of violence, most notably domestic and sexual violence. This book explores the moral, ideological and spatial boundaries that are produced by high levels of violence and the ways in which they govern everyday interaction, behaviour and movement. Men and women engage with these boundaries in distinctive ways, in negotiating or challenging the imposition of norms and unwritten wars that delimit everyday behaviour. The book argues for a more holistic gendered perspective in how we conceptualise the issue of urban violence and how we develop alternatives and initiatives to tackle violence in general"--Provided by publisher. |
| ISBN: |
9781137295927electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137295929electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9781283947008 |
| ISBN: |
1283947005 |
| Content Note: |
Introduction: everyday experiences of violence Territorial boundaries Public/private boundaries The boundaries of acceptability Projects: challenging, reinforcing and producing boundaries Projects tackling violence: gender and transformation Conclusion. |