Violence in the City of Women Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil

Name: Violence in the City of Women Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil
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ISBN: 9780520252776

ISBN-10: 0520252772

ISBN-13: 9780520252776

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sarah Hautzinger

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Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This vividly detailed, accessibly written study explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia. Sarah J. Hautzinger asks what it has meant to criminalize violence in a community in which women have traditionally controlled important informal economic, religious, and domestic spheres, yet have faced comparatively high rates of domestic violence. In a lively narrative that is both ethnographically and theoretically rich, she…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836



List of Illustrations


Prologue


Maps


Introduction: Violence in Salvador da Bahia, City of Women



Womanly Webs: In-Laws and Violence



When Cocks Can't Crow: Masculinity and Violence



Paths to a Women's Police Station



Policing by and for Women



Reluctant Champions: Policewomen or Women Police?


Conclusion and Epilogue


Notes


Glossary of Protuguese Terms


References


Index