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    Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women

    By Elaine Storkey

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    >Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public Life

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP Academic
    Release dateFeb 20, 2018
    ISBN9780830887453
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    Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women
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    Elaine Storkey

    Elaine Storkey is a philosopher, sociologist and theologian, and was formerly President of Tearfund. She lectures across the world, and her books include include What's Right with Feminism, The Search for Intimacy, The Origins of Difference, Scars Across Humanity and most recently Women in a Patriarchal World.

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      An exploration into violence against women throughout the world and what Christians can do about it.The first few chapters are a murderer's row of terrible stories documenting what women experience around the world: murder, honor killings, rape, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, genital mutilation, child brides, and so on. A quite sobering look at the conditions of women worldwide.The author then explores the means by which these abuses are explained. She does well at exposing the limitations of the biological/evolutionary view of things, and concludes that the power dynamic/relations narrative proves more compelling. The book concludes with explorations of how feminism relates to Islam and Christianity.The author's likely liberal Protestantism, or at least highly feminist Christian views, comes out especially in the final chapters. It proves easy to dismiss certain interpretations of Christianity as enabling patriarchal abuse because of holding to a certain standard for said interpretation. Is the solution really to just make one's view of the New Testament culturally relative? Is there really refuge for abusers and those who perpetrate violence against women even in a "strict" interpretation, consistent with context, of New Testament Christianity?Nevertheless, worth exploring to be reminded of the plight of women worldwide. It's not pleasant out there.**--galley received as part of early review program