Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls : The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Wo

Rahel Nardos; Mary K Radpour; William S Hatcher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
 9780742525009
0-7425-2500-7

This book provides university students, policy makers, activists, public health workers, clinicians, and lay citizens alike with a vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide,.

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as well as a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it. An integration of a vast range of data and insights from all the major disciplines that have contributed to our understanding of this problem, this book is invaluable as a classroom text. The authors have been guided throughout this work by the desire to contribute a document that would move the current international discourse along by providing an historical, interdisciplinary overview that is at once critical, constructive, and visionary.