Analyzing Violence Against Women (eBook)

Wanda Teays is a professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on Ethics, Global Bioethics, Ethics & Film, and Critical Reasoning. These include Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014); Business Ethics Through Movies: A Case Study Approach (Wiley, 2015) Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies (Wiley, 2013);   Bioethics, Justice and Health Care (Wadsworth, 2001); Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society, 4th  ed.  (McGraw-Hill, 2010); Violence Against Women: Philosophical Perspectives (Cornell U Press, 1998).

Dedication.- Acknowledgements.- Editor’s Introduction.- Part 1 Sexual Assault.- Surviving Sexual Violence: A Philosophical Perspective; Susan J. Brison.- War Rape; Michael Boylan.- Date Rape: The Intractability of Hermeneutical Injustice; Debra L. Jackson.- Intellectual Disability, Sexual Assault, and Empowerment; Virginia L. Warren.- Resisting Sexual Violence: What Empathy Offers; Sarah Clark Miller.- Part 2 Harassment and Medicalized Violence.- From Mental Illness to Moral Injury:  Psychological and Philosophical Approaches to the Harms of Sexual Violence; Zenon Culverhouse.- Policing Women to Protect Fetuses:  Coercive Interventions During Pregnancy; Debra A. DeBruin and Mary Faith Marshall.- Pronatalism is Violence Against Women:  The Role of Genetics; Laura M. Purdy.- "Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy":  The Medicalization of Violence Against Women; Abby L. Wilkerson.- Part 3 Domestic Violence.- The Tyranny of Bodily Strength:  Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill on Domestic Violence; Rita Manning.- A Feminist Analysis of the Abuse and Neglect of Elderly Women; Rosemarie Tong and Howard Lintz.- Myth, Power, and Gun-Related Intimate Partner Violence Against Women; Peter Tagore Tan.- There is no Honour in Honour Killing; Vibhuti Patel.- Part 4 Media Violence, Pornography, and Prostitution.- Is Seeing Believing?  Rapist Culture on the Screen; Jane Caputi.- Crossing the Line: Online Violence; Wanda Teays.- Beyond Labels: Pornography, Violence, and Free Speech; Edith L. Pacillo.- The Myth of the Happy Hooker: Kantian Moral Reflections on a Phenomenology of Prostitution; Clelia Smyth and Yolanda Estes.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.