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Violence Against Women - Books generally about gender-specific violence. See also other booklists on domestic violence and sexual violence.

Related category: Violence & Abuse

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Why Women Are Blamed For Everything by Dr Jessica Taylor
    Why Women Are Blamed For Everything - by Dr Jessica Taylor

    £17.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780244498344 | ISBN 10: 0244498342

    She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was too confident. She walked home alone. She stayed in that relationship. She was naïve. She didn't report soon enough. She didn't fight back. She wanted i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici
    Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women - by Silvia Federici

    £13.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781629635682 | ISBN 10: 1629635685

    We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blasphemy: The True, Heartbreaking Story of the Woman Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water by Asia Bibi
    Blasphemy: The True, Heartbreaking Story of the Woman Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water - by Asia Bibi

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844088881 | ISBN 10: 184408888x

    Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009.   The temperature is 45 - and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed by Ayse Onal
    Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed - by Ayse Onal

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566172 | ISBN 10: 0863566170

    Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women
    The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities - by Kalpana Kannabiran

    £45.00   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9788188965069 | ISBN 10: 8188965065

    This volume attempts to look at the experience and articulation of violence against women in relation to feminist debates and organising on the issue, and the positive/ negative responses to that articulation, particularly from the standpoint of law ... more

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  • Cover image of book Researching Gender Violence by Edited by Tina Skinner, Marianne Hester and Ellen Malos
    Researching Gender Violence - by Edited by Tina Skinner, Marianne Hester and Ellen Malos

    £31.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843920403 | ISBN 10: 1843920409

    There has been growing interest and concern about the topic of violence against women, reflected in a number of government policy initiatives and research projects on the subject. A wide range of methodological issues has arisen from this, but there ... more

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