Ashlee Gore

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility

Fatal Relationships

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men's responsibility, situating these within the personal and political intersections of neoliberal and 'postfeminist' imperatives of individualisation, choice, and empowerment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780367647100
• ISBN-10: 0367647109
• Artikelnr.: 62711667

Autorenporträt

Ashlee Gore is Lecturer in Criminology at Western Sydney University. Her overarching research priority is gendered violence with a focus on violence against women and the social, cultural, and legal constructions of responsibility.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Feminism, Postfeminism and the Politics of Responsibility
2. Lethal Relationships and Legal Ambiguities
3. Beyond the Law: Analysing Postfeminism, Emotion, and Affect in Public
Responses to Lethal Violence
4. Debating Men's Responsibility for Violence
5. Women's Victimisation and Violence - The Effects of Female
Individualisation
6. Postfeminism, men's rights and responsibility
Conclusion
Index