Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women - Softcover

Storkey, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830852042 ISBN 13: 9780830852048

Verlag: IVP ACADEMIC, 2018

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"While Storkey's book is not for the faint of heart, I encourage pastors and leaders to read it and to open their eyes to the sin that may exist even in our own communities and churches - and then to share its message far and wide. Violence against women and girls is an epidemic, but it is one the Church can play a powerful role in eradicating if we are willing to hear and respond to the pleas of our sisters."--Influence Magazine, February 19, 2018

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Across the globe, acts of violence against women produce more deaths, disability, and mutilation than cancer, malaria, and traffic accidents combined.The truth is that violence on such a scale could not exist were it not structured in some way into the very fabric of societies and cultures themselves. It could not continue if it were not somehow supported by deep assumptions about the value of women, or some justification of the use of power. In many cultures such assumptions are reiterated every day in the absence of legal protection for women, or indifference toward issues of human rights.In Scars Across Humanity, Elaine Storkey offers a rigorously researched overview of this global pandemic. From female infanticide and child brides to domestic abuse, prostitution, rape, and honor killings, violence against women occurs at all stages of life, and in all cultures and societies. How and why has this violence become so prevalent? It seems ambitious to hope that we can find an answer to this question, but if violence to women is ever to be eliminated, we need to know what we are up against.

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• Verlag: IVP ACADEMIC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0830852042
• ISBN 13: 9780830852048
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288