Violence

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Representing Childhood and Atrocity

Edited by Victoria Nesfield & Philip Smith
Subjects: Literature

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.

Flesh of My Flesh

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

Bastard Politics

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

Love and Violence

A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.

Tools of War, Tools of State

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

The Vocation of Writing

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.

State Violence and Moral Horror

Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.

Just War and Human Rights

Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights.

Black Haze, Second Edition

Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.

Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary

Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.

Transnationalism Reversed

Examines transnational movement building through a focus on acid attacks and organizing against acid violence in Bangladesh.

Toward a Credible Pacifism

Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.

Ideologies of Forgetting

First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Family Violence

Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children.

Race and Police Brutality

Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.

With My Profound Reverence for the Victims

Lithographs by American painter George Bellows, depicting the horrors and atrocities of World War I.

Teaching to Transcend

Examines teaching and learning in shelters for battered women.

The Battered Woman and Shelters

Explores how standardized images of problems and people inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted.