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Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. In the past, there has been an understandable reluctance to address this issue to avoid stereotyping vulnerable groups of women. However, developments in the field, particularly intersectionality theory, which recognizes women's diversity in experiences of violence, suggest that the time has come to make the study of violence in vulnerable populations a new sub-field in the area. As the first book of

Editors: I am more than a little perturbed at the headlining of my article "Death By Gender" on the cover of the Spring Dissent. "Honor killings" as a category is not a "feminist" issue (which many readers skip by); It is a human rights issue. It is not just "sexual violence" when girls and women are maimed and killed. It is just plain violence, and the focus should be on the death of people of a certain category; and, as it would be in the case of men, a human rights issue.