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Book SynopsisBy drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part A: Contextualizing Gendered Violence in Canada Introduction: Expanding the Lens on Gendered Violence 1. An Intersectional Lens on Gendered Violence 2. Situating Canadian Women: Socio-Economic Locations 3. Regulatory Discourses and Representation: How Women Are “Known” Part B: Interpersonal Violence 4. Everyday Intrusions on the Street, on Campus, and Online 5. Sexual Assault: Laws, Scripts, and Victim Blaming 6. Intimate Partner Violence: Brutish Husbands and Passive Wives Part C: Workplace Violence 7. Not “Just a Joke”: Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and Microagressions in the Workplace 8. Just Part of the Job? Predatory, Situational, and Slow Violence at Work 9. Invisibilized Migrant Women: Over-Regulated and Under-Protected Workers from the Global South Part D: Structural Violence 10. Moral Regulation, Discipline, and the Beauty Industrial Complex 11. State Violence: Women and the Criminal Justice System 12. Colonial Violence against Indigenous Women Conclusion: “No Free Lunch”: Costs and Consequences of Gendered Violence in Canada and Globally Appendix 1: Works Cited Appendix 2: Glossary
