Overcoming Violence against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem [Paperback]

Rahel Nardos (Author), Mary K. Radpour (Author), William S. Hatcher (Author), Michael L. Penn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 21, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0742525007 | ISBN-13: 978-0742525009

This book provides university students, policy makers, activists, public health workers, clinicians, and lay citizens alike with a vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, as well as a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it. An integration of a vast range of data and insights from all the major disciplines that have contributed to our understanding of this problem, this book is invaluable as a classroom text. The authors have been guided throughout this work by the desire to contribute a document that would move the current international discourse along by providing an historical, interdisciplinary overview that is at once critical, constructive, and visionary.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A compelling document illustrating the worldwide physical and mental abuses of women. Marrying the perspectives of thinkers, researchers, and practitioners, they offer statistics, stories, and cultural histories on their way toward issuing a call for action. Highly recommended. (Choice )

This book tells an important story powerfully and clearly. The story is important because it deals with one of the world's greatest current injustices which produces one of the world's greatest set of health problems. The book tells its story powerfully because it focuses on the moral foundations of human interaction. We won't create gender equality and rid the world of gender-based violence without wrestling with the attendant moral issues. Penn sets out these issues clearly and comprehensively. (Handwerker, W Penn )

About the Author

Michael L. Penn is associate professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College and affiliate professor of psychology at Landegg International University, Switzerland. Rahel Nardos was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and is now a fourth year medical student at Yale University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (January 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0742525007
• ISBN-13: 978-0742525009
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,499,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for use as a textbook or personal activist agenda, February 19, 2007

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Rhett Diessner "Professor of Psychology" (Lewiston, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overcoming Violence against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem (Paperback)

Penn and Nardos' text is beautifully written about a very painful topic. The carefully documented evidence of discrimination and violence against women and girls, that the book provides, would be depressing and demoralizing if the authors hadn't also offered a variety of solutions, both interpersonal and systemically-global, to stop such violence. The book has a sophisticated integration of data-based research, ethical reasoning, and spiritual insights. It galvanized me to examine my own inner prejudices and motivated me to increase my personal response to gendered based violence. Members and employees of our local YWCA, which maintains a battered women's (domestic violence) shelter, have praised the book to me. I have been recommending the text to all my psychology students at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho (and had a copy purchased by our college library).