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Author: Sameena Mulla
Publisher: New York University Press
Imprint: New York University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781479867219
ISBN 10: 1479867217
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 29 August 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Mulla's identification of the reductionism of the victim's biography, implicit in the forensic medical examination, as well as the implications of that reduction, is fascinating and wholly troubling; through her ethnographic observations as a victims advocate she is able to identify a deeply entrenched problem, well-disguised within the more traditional debates in this area over the primacy of the medical or the legal or the importance of professionalism and evidence-based practice. Using an ethnographically-rich approach, focusing upon the temporal and indeed the spatial, Mulla sophisticatedly expresses the violence of reductionism. -Book Forum,Gethin Rees Sameena Mulla's remarkable new book about rape victims and forensic nursing is tightly woven, compelling in its ethnography, and so carefully thought and cumulative in its analytic structure that for me reading it felt like one extended epiphany. It also left me with a profound respect for Mulla's work as a rape counselor and an anthropologist. Rarely do we see participant observation on this order of participation, rarely do we see a writer strike such a perfect tone when addressing such deeply fraught material. -Book Forum,Julie Livingston Mulla has made a very important contribution to understanding the phenomenon of rape. In her diligent study of and research on rape victims, she provides insight into seeing how boundaries are blurred in the medical and legal treatment of the rape victim undergoing emergency care... The book is a wake-up call for professionals/practitioners who work with rape victims. -Choice What is truly noteworthy of this work...is far more than just its honesty: instead, it is the way in which sexual assault is shown to be something that doesn't just create 'victims' that can be treated as a single entity, but rather individuals with distinct experiences, whose suffering and hardship does not simply disappear when the perpetrator does. -Journal of Gender Studies [A] book that is both personal, critical, profound and at times difficult to read. -Metapsychology A fascinating and important study of practices in the emergency room dealing with alleged rape victims paints a stark picture of the confluence of medical and juridical regimes that shape not only the emergency room intervention but also the experience and credibility of the victim and thus the potential criminal case. -Anthropology Review Database Once in a while comes along a book that not only adds a new dimension to existing knowledge of a phenomenon but changes our angle of vision on it. The Violence of Care is such a book. Through the lens of forensic nursing, Sameena Mulla rearranges categories of law, violence, care, kinship, and obligation, shifting our horizon of thought and allowing new aspects of these familiar categories to dawn on us. A stunning achievement. -Veena Das,Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Once in a while comes along a book that not only adds a new dimension to existing knowledge of a phenomenon but changes our angle of vision on it. The Violence of Care is such a book. Through the lens of forensic nursing, Sameena Mulla rearranges categories of law, violence, care, kinship, and obligation, shifting our horizon of thought and allowing new aspects of these familiar categories to dawn on us. A stunning achievement. -Veena Das,Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University Mulla offers a rich and harrowing ethnographic investigation of what happens to Baltimore's sexual assault victims, and to the nurses and the rape crisis center volunteers who care for them. The book highlights how nurses are mobilized as agents of the prosecution team; victims are regulated as 'good' or 'bad' witnesses; and 'public health hospital-based services' are increasingly de-politicized in the service of the state. In Mulla's beautifully written and disturbing account, the politics of rape and the labors of nurses are both muffled in the production of judicialized outcomes, rather than support of victims and the healthcare providers who work with them. Let the reader be forewarned: this is a great and troubling read! -Rayna Rapp,New York University
Mulla offers a rich and harrowing ethnographic investigation of what happens to Baltimore's sexual assault victims, and to the nurses and the rape crisis center volunteers who care for them. The book highlights how nurses are mobilized as agents of the prosecution team; victims are regulated as 'good' or 'bad' witnesses; and 'public health hospital-based services' are increasingly de-politicized in the service of the state. In Mulla's beautifully written and disturbing account, the politics of rape and the labors of nurses are both muffled in the production of judicialized outcomes, rather than support of victims and the healthcare providers who work with them. Let the reader be forewarned: this is a great and troubling read! -Rayna Rapp, New York University
Author Information
Before she joined the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University in 2021, Sameena Mulla was Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. She is the author of The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses and Sexual Assault Intervention, which won the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association’s Margaret Mead Award.
