Titlebook: Gender and Interpersonal Violence; Language, Action and Karen Throsby,Flora Alexander (Formerly) Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division o

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‘I Still Sort of Flounder Around in a Sea of Non-Language’: The Constraints of Language and Labels illy, 1988; Kelly ., 1996; Schechter, 1982). The importance of finding words to name and describe violence and abuse can be contextualized within more general understandings of the significance of language both for individual sense-making and for social interaction. As feminist writer Ellen DuBois st

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Cultural Transformations and Gender Violence: South Asian Women’s Experiences of Sexual Violence ands regarding South Asian men and women and the demonisation of Asian community relations can circulate without qualification in the wider public sphere. Such stereotypes include representations of South Asian women as ‘passive’, compliant’, pressured by family and subservient to the needs of men. Yet

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Sexual Trafficking: A New Sexual Story?s frequently recounted in the news media, TV and film. Consequently, sexual trafficking has become a much more commonly told, and therefore, more easily recognised story, which has enabled accounts by trafficked women to be considered more credible within the British asylum system. However, in spite