Violence and Gender Relations: Theories and Interventions - Hardcover

9780803976498: Violence and Gender Relations: Theories and Interventions

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803976496 ISBN 13: 9780803976498

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

This major contribution to debates on violence and gender relations looks at abusive behaviour as it affects women, men, children and older people. The book is fundamentally concerned with the interrelations of theory and practice. It focuses both on the development of theory and on effective interventions and professional practices, particularly in the fields of social work and social welfare.

While a gendered approach to violence is the central theme of the book, other social divisions and oppressions - such as class, age and race - are analyzed, and their implications for intervention are considered. The book also explores the distinctions and connections between institutional and interpersonal violence. Special attention is given to current issues and debates: organizations and violence; men's violence to women; and the relationship between violence, gender and generation. The contributors present important new empirical research on men's violence to women and organizational responses, as well as providing more general theoretical analyses of the subject.

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Review:

`Scholars of social work, public policy, and organization will find the book provocative and useful' - SIGNS

`The focus on the interrelationships between social theory and professional practices is welcome' - Women's Studies Network (UK) Newsletter

`In the context of child protection... students who lack first-hand experience will get a lot out of this book and it will certainly give us much to debate' - Child Abuse Review

`This volume is concerned primarily with men's continuing violence to women, children and older people, although it also includes analysis of social divisions and oppressions other than gender (class, age and race) and their implications in terms of intervention... [it] deals with a broad range of violent behaviours (including institutional violence)... chapters which are based primarily on new research findings are especially valuable... There are many interesting proposals for interventions and for further research, all based on feminist critique and politics. Overall, all chapters contribute both to the development of theory and to effective interventions and professional practices' - Theoretical Criminology

`Interesting material is presented. For example [on] child protection work and men's reluctance to engage with social workers... This volume [goes] some way towards developing current theoretical perspectives which might inform policy and practice' - British Journal of Social Work

About the Author:

Jeff Hearn is currently Guest Faculty Research Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, based in Gender Studies and the Centre for Feminist Social Studies, �rebro University, Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, and a UK Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences.

His recent research has focused on transnational change. He has been at the forefront of critical research on men and masculinities, and has published extensively on sociology, organizations, management, policy, gender, sexualities, violences, cultural studies, and autoethnography. His many books include: ‘Sex’ at ‘Work’ (with Wendy Parkin, 1987/1995); The Gender of Oppression (1987), Men in the Public Eye (1992); The Violences of Men (1998); The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (edited with Michael Kimmel and Raewyn Connell, 2005), European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities (with Keith Pringle and CROME, 2006/2009), Men and Masculinities in Europe (with Keith Pringle et al., 2006/2013), Sex, Violence and the Body (edited with Viv Burr, 2008), The Limits of Gendered Citizenship (edited with Elzbieta Oleksy and Dorota Golanska, 2011), Men and Masculinities around the World (edited with Elisabetta Ruspini, Bob Pease and Keith Pringle, 2011), and Rethinking Transnational Men (edited with Marina Blagojevic and Katherine Harrison, 2013). His latest book is Men of the World: Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times (SAGE, 2015).

He is Managing Co-editor of Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series, Co-editor of NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, and Associate Editor of Gender, Work and Organization. He was formerly Co-editor of Men and Masculinities for many years; Head of Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford; Research Professor, University of Manchester; Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Link�ping University; Professor II, Sociology, Oslo University; and has been Visiting Professor at many universities.

Jeff Hearn has been strongly involved in North-South and European research and policy collaborations, such as the CROME, CAHRV, genSET, GenPORT, and Study on the Role of Men in Gender Equality EU projects, as well as profeminist and related activism over many years.

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