COS DSS | Understanding Violence Against Women in Rural Communities - Dr. Walter DeKeseredy

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The College of Sciences Distinguished Speaker Series Presents: Understanding Violence Against Women in Rural Communities - Presented by Dr. Walter DeKeseredy, Professor of Sociology, University of West Virginia.

February 10th, 2016 at 6:00 PM at Cevíche Tapas Orlando (125 W. Church Street Orlando, FL 32801)

Only a few social scientific areas of inquiry have moved as far and as fast as the study of male-to-female physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Only 30 years ago, a comprehensive bibliography of North American sources would fit on an index card. Today, hundreds of journal articles, scores of books, and several important journals specifically address a variety of forms of woman abuse. We now have rich empirical information and a wide variety of theories on woman abuse in a variety of relationships and social settings, making it clear that living in conditions of tyranny is a dangerous attack on women’s psychological as well as physical health. Still, reading the extant literature makes it clear that we still lack an in-depth understanding of the plight of rural women. The main objective of this presentation is to describe the current state of sociological knowledge on rural woman abuse and to suggest new directions in empirical, theoretical, and policy work.



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