Framing Sexual and Domestic Violence through Language
Published on 12. September 2013
Book
Hardback
VII, 186 pages
978-1-137-34008-5 (ISBN)
Description
With examples from throughout Europe and the United States, the contributors to this volume explore how gender violence is framed through language and what this means for research and policy. Language shapes responses to abuse and approaches to perpetrators and interfaces with national debates about gender, violence, and social change.
Reviews / Votes
"With its specific focus on language and the challenge of communicating in a multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary field, this book contributes to an ongoing and very current international debate on the meaning of gender violence that is tangibly relevant on the ground and in policy-making, including legislation." - Nancy Gage-Lindner, Hesse Department of Social Welfare, Section Head Violence Prevention and Intervention, Youth Protective Services, Germany
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Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VII, 186 p.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-34008-5 (9781137340085)
DOI
10.1057/9781137340092
Schweitzer Classification
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12/2015
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09/2013
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Person
Stéphanie Condon, Institut national d'études démographiques (National Institute of Demography), France
Daniela Gloor, Social Insight, Switzerland
Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Anna Kwiatkowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hanna Meier, Social Insight, Switzerland
Britta Mogensen, independent scholar, Denmark
Bo Wagner Sørensen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Carole Wright, University of Huddersfield, UK
Content
1. Just Words? Purpose, Translation, and Metaphor in Framing Sexual and Domestic Violence through Language; Renate Klein 2. Neutralising Gendered Violence: Subsuming Men's Violence against Women into Gender-neutral Language; Carole Wright and Jeff Hearn 3. Communicating Prevalence Survey Results; Stephanie A. Condon 4. 'Clouds Darkening the Blue Marital Sky': How Language in Police's Reports (Re)constructs Intimate Partner Homicides; Daniela Gloor and Hanna Meier 5. Talking about Violence: How People Convey Stereotypical Messages about Perpetrator and Victim through the Use of Biased Language; Anna Kwiatkowska 6. A Matter of Mental Health? Treatment of Perpetrators of Domestic Violence in Denmark and the Underlying Perception of Violence; Bo Wagner Sørensen 7. Dangerous Words: How Euphemisms May Imperil Women's Lives; Britta Mogensen 8. Language for Institutional Change: Notes from US Higher Education; Renate Klein