Framing Sexual and Domestic Violence through Language

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Just Words?

   • Renate Klein

   Pages 1-19

3. Neutralizing Gendered Violence

   • Carole Wright, Jeff Hearn

   Pages 21-40

4. Communicating Prevalence Survey Results

   • Stéphanie A. Condon

   Pages 41-55

5. “Clouds Darkening the Blue Marital Sky”

   • Daniela Gloor, Hanna Meier

   Pages 57-85

6. Talking about Violence

   • Anna Kwiatkowska

   Pages 87-109

7. A Matter of Mental Health?

   • Bo Wagner Sørensen

   Pages 111-134

8. Dangerous Words

   • Britta Mogensen

   Pages 135-161

9. Language for Institutional Change

   • Renate Klein

   Pages 163-178

10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-186

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With examples from throughout Europe and the United States, the contributors to this volume explore how gender violence is framed through language and what this means for research and policy. Language shapes responses to abuse and approaches to perpetrators and interfaces with national debates about gender, violence, and social change.

• Europe
• gender
• Institution
• Nation
• social change
• violence
• women

"With its specific focus on language and the challenge of communicating in a multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary field, this book contributes to an ongoing and very current international debate on the meaning of gender violence that is tangibly relevant on the ground and in policy-making, including legislation." - Nancy Gage-Lindner, Hesse Department of Social Welfare, Section Head Violence Prevention and Intervention, Youth Protective Services, Germany

Stéphanie Condon, Institut national d'études démographiques (National Institute of Demography), France Daniela Gloor, Social Insight, Switzerland Jeff Hearn, Hanken School of Economics, Finland Anna Kwiatkowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Hanna Meier, Social Insight, Switzerland Britta Mogensen, independent scholar, Denmark Bo Wagner Sørensen, Roskilde University, Denmark Carole Wright, University of Huddersfield, UK

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