The Struggle for Freedom from Fear: Contesting Violence Against Women at the Frontiers of Globalization

by Alison Brysk

Book Overview

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries tends to change as countries develop and liberalize, but not in the ways that we might predict. She shows how liberalizing authoritarian countries and transitional democracies may experience more shifting patterns and greater levels of violence than less developed and democratic countries, due to changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190901527
• ISBN13: 9780190901523
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"