Bøger af Martin D. Schwartz

Decade after decade, violence against women has gained more attention from scholars, policy makers, and the general public. This work focuses on women living in rural America who are at great risk of sexual assault, beatings, and death during and immediately after separation or divorce.

This work describes the devastating consequences of living in a public housing community damaged by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, government cutbacks, and other structural transformations that plague the USA and Canada.

In post-secondary schools in North America, there are a number of women who become victims of physical, sexual and psychological assaults. This book overviews the Canadian National Survey on Woman Abuse in Dating Relationships, and exposes a 'hidden campus curriculum' that maintains the kinds of inequalities that can engender acts of violence.

Suitable for many students, coeducational college campus life is marred by traumatic experiences of sexual assault, this title examines the pivotal role of male peer support in legitimizing the sexual assault of women.

Abusive Endingsoffers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women todayabuse at the hands of their male partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce. The material is punctuated with the stories and voices of both perpetrators and survivors of abuse, as told to the authors over many years of fieldwork. Written in a highly readable fashion, this book will be a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy makers.