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Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence.
Genderism, Transphobia, and Gender Bashing: A Framework for Interpreting Anti-Transgender Violence
Genderism, Transphobia, and Gender Bashing: A Framework for Interpreting Anti-Transgender Violence
Hate or bias crimes victimize an entire class of people because of their membership in a minority group (Herek, 1989). One hate crime rarely examined is violence against transgendered people. Transgender is an identity that has emerged in the past three decades. It refers to people who refuse to live up to society's expectations for gender. It is best understood as a “community” identity used by a collective of people who have personal identities as cross-dressers or transvestites (those who enjoy occasional or recreational cross-gender presentations); transgenderists (those who live a substantial part of their lives cross-gender); pre-, post-, and nonoperative transsexuals (those ...
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