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Women and Gendered Violence in Canada: An Intersectional Approach

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  • Conceived of as a teaching tool, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada: An Intersectional Approach brings an expanded lens to the literature on gendered violence, moving beyond the conventional focus on gendered violence as interpersonal violence perpetrated by individual men against individual women

  • With its Canada-centric content, and its focus on issues that are increasingly important to students today, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada will be a valuable addition to Canadian undergraduate courses in many disciplines

  • While each chapter focuses on one central theme, such as violence in the criminal justice system, within the chapter are concepts, theoretical explanations, and examples from many different academic disciplines

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Conceived of as a teaching tool, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada: An Intersectional Approach brings an expanded lens to the literature on gendered violence, moving beyond the conventional focus on gendered violence as interpersonal violence perpetrated by individual men against individual women. The authors’ intersectional approach pays critical attention to interlocking relations of power as creating different experiences of gendered violence for different groups of people. With its Canada-centric content, and its focus on issues that are increasingly important to students today, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada will be a valuable addition to Canadian undergraduate courses in many disciplines.

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