Women against cruelty

Women against cruelty
Author: Diana Donald
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2019-10-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1526115441

This is the first book to explore women’s leading role in animal protection in nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on rich archival sources. Women founded bodies such as the Battersea Dogs’ Home, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and various groups that opposed vivisection. They energetically promoted better treatment of animals, both through practical action and through their writings, such as Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty. Yet their efforts were frequently belittled by opponents, or decried as typifying female ‘sentimentality’ and hysteria. Only the development of feminism in the later Victorian period enabled women to show that spontaneous fellow-feeling with animals was a civilising force. Women’s own experience of oppressive patriarchy bonded them with animals, who equally suffered from the dominance of masculine values in society, and from an assumption that all-powerful humans were entitled to exploit animals at will.

PROTECTION OF WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN INDIA

PROTECTION OF WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN INDIA
Author: Dr. Laksh Lata Prajapati
Publisher: Laxmi Book Publication
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2024-01-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1304848620

Thematic Introduction “Ya devi sarva bhuteshu, matrirupen sansthite, namastasya, namastasya, namastasya, namo namah matra devo bhava, pitra devo bhava” [1] “It is from women the condemned one that we are conceived and it is from her that we are born. It is to women that we are engaged and married. It is women who are our lifelong friends. And is she who keeps our race going. It is women through whom we establish our societies. Why should we denounce her from whom even kings and great men are born?” [1]. Taittiriha upanishad -1.11.2.

Violence against Women and Girls

Violence against Women and Girls
Author: Sangeeta Rege
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100007868X

This book discusses the pervasiveness of violence against women (VAW) in India and traces its evolution as a public health concern. It highlights the fundamental relationship between health and violence and identifies institutional gaps, which hinder comprehensive healthcare and support to VAW survivors. The volume brings together in-depth case studies from various states and civil society organisations on their initiatives to help bring adequate support and health services to women affected by VAW. These include engagement with hospitals to increase awareness and sensitivity among health service providers and community-run health clinics for marginalised women. The book documents the mobilising efforts of feminists, community-based organisations, state institutions, and CSOs in developing comprehensive healthcare responses and bringing violence against women into the public health discourse. It provides insights into the lack of guidelines for responding to sexual violence in medical and nursing education, and the way that the police and the justice system function in India. This book will be of interest to public health professionals, and students and researchers in public health, gender studies, social work, and sociology. It will also be useful for policymakers and for professionals working for thinktanks or CSOs working on developing health system responses to VAW.

Violence Against Women and Children

Violence Against Women and Children
Author: Carol J. Adams
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1995-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826408303

Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions. It cuts across all economic strata and is found in our urban centers and the farthest corners of the nation. This is the only sourcebook on domestic violence for clergy and counselors.

The Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women's Citizenship

The Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women's Citizenship
Author: Suzanne Franzway
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-10-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1447337794

The challenge of violence against women should be recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship and the whole community. This book examines how responses by the state sanction violence against women and shape a woman’s citizenship long after she has escaped from a violent partner. Drawing from a long-term study of women’s lives in Australia, including before and after a relationship with a violent partner, it investigates the effects of intimate partner violence on aspects of everyday life including housing, employment, mental health and social participation. The book contributes to theoretical explanations of violence against women by reframing it through the lens of sexual politics. Finally, it offers critical insights for the development of social policy and practice.

Violence, Law and Women's Rights in South Asia

Violence, Law and Women's Rights in South Asia
Author: Savitri Goonesekere
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2004-06-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780761997962

This very insightful volume critically analyses the law and law enforcement in three South Asian countries India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka s in order to assess the response of the criminal justice system to violence against women. The contributors assert that the gap between reality and the practice of laws in these countries is unfortunately very wide and women who are victims of violence are further victimised by discriminatory laws, the apathy of the judicial system, and the systematic manipulation of legal provisions. They explore the opportunities to change the legal systems and make them more responsive to women s human right to justice and freedom from violence.

Domestic Violence in India: What One Should Know?

Domestic Violence in India: What One Should Know?
Author: Shalu Nigam
Publisher: Shalu Nigam
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2008-01-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 8190367145

This book is written with the object of demystifying the law relating to domestic violence in India. Domestic violence is a complex phenomenon but this book looks at the issue with the integrated approach and attempts to address it from its multidimensional perspectives. It puts together the social, psychological, and legal dimensions of domestic violence issues in a comprehensive manner. It also explains the gamut of the Protection of Domestic Violence Act of 2005 in detail. The information is written in simple question-and-answer form and seeks to dispel the myths and taboos surrounding the issue of domestic violence.