Scars Across Humanity
Understanding And Overcoming Violence Against Women
Published on 25. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-281-07508-9 (ISBN)
Description
Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award - Politics and Public Life
'Scrupulously researched and documented, illustrated with both statistics and personal stories, this is a book that changes perceptions and could play a substantive role in achieving change.' -Margaret Hebblethwaite, author and missionary in Paraguay
Published to coincide with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November 2015), Scars Across Humanity is a thoroughly documented investigation into the causes of violence against women, past and present. Global in scope, and addressing the issues as they affect women at every stage of life, this powerful book also offers a probing critique of evolutionary and social-scientific accounts of gender-based violence, and of the role that religion can play, for good or ill, in the struggle against this worldwide problem.
'Scrupulously researched and documented, illustrated with both statistics and personal stories, this is a book that changes perceptions and could play a substantive role in achieving change.' -Margaret Hebblethwaite, author and missionary in Paraguay
Published to coincide with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November 2015), Scars Across Humanity is a thoroughly documented investigation into the causes of violence against women, past and present. Global in scope, and addressing the issues as they affect women at every stage of life, this powerful book also offers a probing critique of evolutionary and social-scientific accounts of gender-based violence, and of the role that religion can play, for good or ill, in the struggle against this worldwide problem.
Reviews / Votes
Elaine Storkey is extremely well respected. This is a hugely important book. Violence against women is a shocking blight, perpetrated on occasion by some in church life. I particularly applaud Storkey's work in 2010 establishing the campaigning group, 'Restored'. This title deserves to be widely stocked and widely read. -- Eddie Olliffe * Together Magazine * It is a difficult and challenging book to read, leaving an imprint on your heart long after reading the words. -- Julie Corr * Families First * Scars Across Humanity is a powerful thrust in the direction of justice and inequality. By a long shot, this the most important book I've read in the past year - maybe my lifetime. Please read this book, and tell others to read it too. -- Tristan Sherwin * tristansherwin.wordpress.com * 'This is a compelling and courageous book which I believe every Christian should read. It makes for challenging and painful reading, as chapter after chapter piles up incontrovertible evidence of the scale and depth of violence against women, combining extensive research with ?rst person testimony and narrative.' -- Nicola Slee The Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham * Theology Journal Issue 119.4 * This book made me angry, upset, uncomfortable, and at some points feel physically ill. It informed me on issues I didn't even know existed. It is powerful and it is truth and I believe that everyone should read it. -- Adair * Blog: Just Love St. Andrews * an 'excellent and informative book' * Pat Pinsent * I wonder how I missed the publication of this excellent and informative book! * Pat Pinsent *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-281-07508-9 (9780281075089)
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11/2015
SPCK Publishing
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Person
Elaine Storkey is a philosopher, sociologist and theologian, having held posts at the Open University, King's College, London, and the University of Oxford. In 1997 she became President of Tearfund, and has since been involved in monitoring aid, relief and advocacy work in countries of the Global South. In 2010 she and her husband Alan became founder members of Restored, an organisation committed to advocating against violence to women.
Content
Acknowledgements s x
Introduction: naming the problem 1
1 A global pandemic 4
2 Violence begins before birth: selective abortion and infanticide 18
3 Cut for purity: female genital mutilation 29
4 Early and enforced marriage: child abuse by another name 47
5 Whose 'honour'? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame 59
6 Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: violence in the home 75
7 Money, sex and violence: trafficking and prostitution 96
8 Rape 115
9 War and sexual violence 133
10 Why gender-based violence? It's in our genes: exploring our evolutionary heritage 152
11 Why gender-based violence? Power and patriarchy 170
12 Religion and women 187
13 Christianity and gender: a fuller picture 204
Notes 224
Select bibliography 260
Index 269
Introduction: naming the problem 1
1 A global pandemic 4
2 Violence begins before birth: selective abortion and infanticide 18
3 Cut for purity: female genital mutilation 29
4 Early and enforced marriage: child abuse by another name 47
5 Whose 'honour'? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame 59
6 Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: violence in the home 75
7 Money, sex and violence: trafficking and prostitution 96
8 Rape 115
9 War and sexual violence 133
10 Why gender-based violence? It's in our genes: exploring our evolutionary heritage 152
11 Why gender-based violence? Power and patriarchy 170
12 Religion and women 187
13 Christianity and gender: a fuller picture 204
Notes 224
Select bibliography 260
Index 269