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"This was several times with that damn cribbage board. I hate cribbage boards to this very day. They never beat us on the arms or legs or stuff, it was always on the bottom of the feet, I couldn't figure it out." Brian L., Huronia Regional Centre Survivor Over the past two decades, the public has borne witness to ongoing revelations of shocking, intense, and even sadistic forms of violence in spaces meant to provide care. This has been particularly true in institutions designed to care for people with disabilities. In this work, the authors not only describe institutional violence, but work to make sense of how and why institutional violence within care settings is both so pervasive and so profound. Drawing on a wide range of primary data, including oral histories of institutional survivors and staff, ethnographic observation, legal proceedings and archival data, this book asks: What does institutional violence look like in practice and how might it be usefully categorizedHow have extreme forms violence and neglect come to be the cultural norm across institutionsWhat organizational strategies in institutions foster the abdication of personal morality and therefore violenceHow is institutional care the crucial "first step" in creating a culture that accepts violence as the normThis highly interdisciplinary work develops scholarly analysis of the history and importance of institutional violence and, as such, is of particular interest to scholars whose work engages with issues of disability, health care law and policy, violence, incarceration, organizational behaviour, and critical theory.

Introduction: Households, marketplaces, and neighborhoods -- Prescription, anxiety, and acceptance : representations of market women in popular culture -- Cooperation and conflict : women, commerce, and the household economy -- Traders, hucksters, and creditors : independent tradeswomen and the commerce of early modern towns -- Conflicting interests, common interests : female traders, marital status and town authorities -- Women, commerce, and female reputation -- When to give and when to gouge : bargaining, neighborliness, and the limits of the moral economy -- The potency of women's words : gossip, slander, and the enforcement of plain dealing -- Women, protest, and marketplace politics -- Conclusion: To "runneth and raveth" after markets

Gendering African social spaces / Toyin Falola & Wanjala S. Nasong'o -- Gendering the political space in Nigeria : the contradictions between theory and practice / Folasade Olayinka Ifamose -- The Nwanne paradigm as a liberative panacea to the patriarchal Nigerian Igbo society / Nkea Ifeoma Ofoma Okafor & Felix Munyaradzi Murove -- The politics of gender mainstreaming and affirmative action in Nigeria / Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai -- Challenges of Bakassi women in the post-ICJ verdict on the Bakassi peninsula / Ronke Iyabowale Ako-Nai -- Women's political empowerment in Nigeria : a reading of Akachi Ezeigbo's The last of the strong ones / Itang Ede Egbung -- The three bodies : theoretical insights into the albino body in Tanzania / Jane Saffitz -- Disabilities, violence, and abuse in Nigeria / Emmanuel Olufemi Adeniyi & Olubola C. Dada -- Violence and victimization of people with mental disabilities in the northwest region of Cameroon / Consoler Teboh -- Marginalization of women in John Pepper Clark's The wives revolt / Gloria Eme Worugji -- Crisis of safe motherhood : information awareness, use, and social neglect among rural women in Ogun State, Nigeria / Rachael Folashade Aina -- Whiteness on blackness : European gazes on black male bodies / Mona Hamedani -- Gender and architecture : contributions of Nigerian female architects to the built environment / Abimbola O. Asojo -- Influence of indigenous forms and symbols on religious architecture : a case study of the Catholic Church in Nigeria / Theresa T. Asojo & Abimbola O. Asojo -- Traditions and politics in the making of an annual Olojo Festival in ile-ife, Nigeria / Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin -- The okra principle : [re]constructing identities among Nigerians in the U.S. / Veronica Savory McComb -- The ever evolving Hatshepsut problem : an African queen and the construction, interpretation, and expression of identity / Jay Carriker -- Religious movements and expression in Nigerian pentecostal churches / Ezekiel K. Akano -- Female power and authority in selected indigenous pentecostal churches in Badagry Township, Lagos, Nigeria / Hannah Titilayo Kehinde Ishola -- The history and challenges of women leadership in pentecostal churches in southwestern Nigeria / Rotimi Williams Omotoye

In Europe's current economic and socio-political climate, young peoples' exposure to social risks is escalating. This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of youth as an important case for contemporary social policy. By combining social policy and youth studies, the book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on the lives of young Europeans. This timely publication focusses on two fundamental contemporary challenges for European welfare states: the changing conditions faced by young people, characterized by precarity and social exclusion; and the role of social policies and welfare sources in shaping youth transitions. Through a unique combination of comparative studies and case-studies studies conducted across Europe by leading experts, the book covers a number of policy areas relevant to youth transitions including education, labour market, housing and social security policies. This book will be essential reading for academics, policy-makers and students interested in understanding how welfare states are responding to the challenges faced by young people

"Why hasn't polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the customs, gender norms and hierarchies, kinship structures, and laws affecting marriage, and situates polygamy within structures of inequality that shape marital options, especially for young Malian women. Through an approach of cultural relativism, the book offers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested form of marriage. Without shying away from questions of patriarchy and women's oppression, it presents polygamy from the everyday vantage points of Bamako residents themselves, allowing readers to make informed judgments about it and to appreciate fully the full spectrum of human cultural diversity"--