Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future.
An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.
Автор: Fangrad, Alana Название: Wartime rape and sexual violence ISBN: 1491822694 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781491822692 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2921.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Attacks on humanitarian aid operations are both a symptom and a weapon of modern warfare, and as armed groups increasingly target aid workers for violence, relief operations are curtailed in places where civilians are most in need.
Автор: Hannah Bows Название: Violence Against Older Women, Volume II ISBN: 3030165965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030165963 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book brings together international research from scholars and activists on the forms of violence that older women experience into a unique, comprehensive two-volume set. This volume is concerned with understanding the consequences and impacts of violence against older women. The majority of policy and practice has been developed to reflect the dynamics and contexts of violence affecting young women, and most of the available support services had focused on the needs of those of child-bearing age. This volume sheds light on the specific needs and effectiveness of responses to violence against older women, and identifies both challenges and opportunities for developing services that meet older survivor's needs. It will be of interest to researchers in social and health care, gerontology, sociology and social policy, feminist research and criminology.
Автор: Bradley, Tamsin , Gruber, Janet Название: Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls ISBN: 0367235846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367235840 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book argues that women and girls are vulnerable across all areas of society, and that therefore a commitment to end violence against women and girls needs to be embedded into all development programmes, regardless of sectorial focus.
Описание: This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issues, policies, and strategies for addressing the symptoms and root causes of violence against women (VAW) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Описание: Chinese architecture is astonishingly uniform. Buddhists, Daoists, and Muslims, inside China and beyond, built Chinese-style structures the same way for two thousand years, despite mastering new technologies along the way. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt offers an authoritative overview of design principles that have stood the test of time-and geography.
Introduction (Emma Charlene Lubaale and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz)
Chapter Two
Violence against women in Africa: A human rights violation necessitating criminal accountability (Emma Charlene Lubaale and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz)
SECTION TWO: LEGISLATION AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Chapter three
Addressing gender-based violence epidemic through criminal justice: A case study of South Africa and the DRC (Mafuku Tholaine Matadi and Lizelle Ramaccio Calvino)
Chapter four
Access to justice for survivors of violence: A case study of the girl child in Mauritius (Shivani Georgijevic and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz)
Chapter five
Police capacity building in dealing with domestic violence cases in South Africa: An entry point to women's access to justice (Mothibi Kholofelo A and Tirivangasi Happy Mathew)
Chapter six
Access to Justice for sexual violence against women: A socio-legal analysis of case reporting in Kenya (Nelly Warega)
SECTION THREE: LIMITATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Chapter seven
Sex trafficking as a form of gender-based violence against women: Lessons from South Africa and Uganda (Annette Lansink and Zahara Nampewo)
Chapter eight
Criminal accountability for gender-based violence in North Africa: Beyond legal reforms (Yousra Abourabi and Emma Charlene Lubaale)
Chapter nine
The right to social security as a prerequisite to access to justice for survivors of sexual violence in Zimbabwe (Untalimile Crystal Mokoena)
Chapter ten
Roots Revisited: Barriers to justice for survivors of female genital mutilation in the Gambia (Raeesa Rajmohamed)
Chapter eleven
Access to justice by victims of violence against women and girls in Tanzania: A social legal perspective (Cecilia Ngaiza and Asina A. Omari)
Описание: Each year, millions of women throughout the world experience violence and abuse at the hands of their intimate partner. Abusers coercively control them by using a variety of tactics ranging from physical or sexual violence to emotional or psychological abuse. An additional tactic often used includes financial abuse in which the abuser controls the money in the family, exploits the victim's financial standing, and interrupts her efforts to be self-sufficient. The impact of financial abuse can leave women financially trapped in the relationship with limited financial management skills, knowledge, or self-confidence. Indeed, survivors often mention financial barriers as a top reason for keeping them trapped by the abuser in the relationship. Curiously, little of the research on domestic violence has sought to either fully understand the impact of financial abuse or to determine which intervention strategies are most effective for the financial empowerment of survivors. Building Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence aims to address this critical knowledge gap by providing those who work with survivors of domestic violence with practical knowledge on how to empower the financial well-being and stability of survivors. Specifically, every practitioner, human service provider, criminal justice practitioner, financial manager, and corporate supervisor should be screening the women they encounter for economic abuse, and when such abuse is found, they should work with the women toward developing financial safety plans and refer survivors to financial empowerment programs to assist survivors to become free from abuse.
Автор: Laura M. Purdy, Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays Название: Violence against Women: Philosophical Perspectives ISBN: 0801484529 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801484520 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4803.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
This is the first anthology to take a theoretical look at violence against women. Each essay shows how philosophy provides a powerful tool for examining a difficult and deep-rooted social problem. Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays, and Laura M. Purdy, all philosophers, present a familiar phenomenon in a new and striking fashion.The editors employ a two-tiered approach to this vital issue. Contributors consider both interpersonal violence, such as rape and battering; and also systemic violence, such as sexual harassment, pornography, prostitution, and violence in a medical context. The editors have further broadened the discussion to include such cross-cultural issues as rape in war, dowry deaths, female genital mutilation, and international policies on violence against women. Against this wide range of topics, which integrate personal perspectives with the philosophical, the contributors offer powerful analyses of the causes and effects of violence against women, as well as potential policies for effecting change.
Автор: Andree Collard, Joyce Contrucci Название: Rape of the Wild: Man`s Violence against Animals and the Earth ISBN: 0253205190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253205193 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 2229.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "One of the really significant books to have come out of the women's movement." —Mary Daly "Rape of the Wild is a bold work that stress[es] the absolute necessity of kinship with nature and all forms of life." —Animal's Agenda "This book is constructively "radical" in that it channels the energy of anger into a probing examination of the roots of patrist violence." —Changing Man " . . . a welcome addition to ecofeminist literature . . . " —Feminist for Animal Rights "Rape of the Wild is a very moving, passionately written expose of men's subjugation and exploitation of the natural environment and of women." —Forest History Society This visionary and inspiring book is a cogent analysis of man's use and misuse of his environment and an impassioned plea for a feminist ecological revolution.
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