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Author Plesset, Sonja

Title Sheltering women : negotiating gender and violence in northern Italy / Sonja Plesset
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages)
Contents Engaging the field -- Postfeminist uncertainties -- Politics of gender and shelter -- Two sides of shame -- Gender proficiencies -- Engendering resistance -- Gendered divides
Summary "Residents of Parma, Italy pride themselves on their sophistication and connection to European modernity. But despite this reputation for civility, intimate-partner violence continues to take place, largely hidden from public view. Through a detailed ethnography of two women's shelters - one leftist, the other Catholic - this book explores the political, cultural, and legal contexts of competing explanations for intimate-partner violence."
"Some contend that violence against women reflects the cultural and historical gender inequalities embedded in Italian society, including "old-fashioned" or "traditional" understandings of masculinity. Others argue that it stems from confusion and ambivalence over "new" or "modern" forms of gender relations. The first explanation places the blame on tradition and the second cites the transition to modernity, but both emphasize societal understandings of gender and point to collective, rather than individual, responsibility. Through an intimate portrayal of everyday life, Sheltering Women reveals how violence against women can be studied as one part of a continuum of locally relevant understandings of gender relations and gender change."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Women -- Italy -- Parma -- Social conditions
Sex role -- Italy -- Parma
Wife abuse -- Italy -- Parma
Abused wives -- Italy -- Parma
Abused women -- Italy -- Parma
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Abused wives.
Abused women.
Sex role.
Wife abuse.
Women -- Social conditions.
Gewalt
Soziale Situation
Frau
Gender Studies & Sexuality.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Könsroller -- Italien.
Social Sciences.
Kvinnomisshandel -- Italien.
Italy -- Parma.
Parma
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006005164
ISBN 9780804767866
0804767866