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"Using a continuum model, each chapter examines a specific problem or issue while showing readers how various forms of sexism and violence are interrelated. The authors also propose practice and policy strategies to confront these issues from a strengths and empowerment perspective."

"While violence takes varying forms in different cultures, reflecting the differential power of women and different definitions of women's value in these cultures, in each it reflects the cultural definitions of woman and the feminine as subordinate, and reinforces the gender structure in which women are oppressed. This book provides a theoretical and conceptual approach to the intricate relationship between gender structure and the many forms of violence against women."