Exploring Violence in Families and Societies

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The papers in this compilation deal with the themes of defining violence and its effect on the society as a whole. It takes into account the various aspects of violence, its representation, solutions and legislations. The aim is to understand the boundaries of violence from all possible interpretations. Exploring Violence in Families and Societies Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: Domestic Violence Domestic Violence: Bystander Intervention and the Role of Privacy Part 2: Domestic Violence in India: Responses and Strategies Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 - Miracle Legislation or Façade? Studying Domestic Violence in the Indian Context: Moving away from Gilead? Peering into the Crystal Ball: The Future of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 Part 3: Literary Themes Gossip: The Quarrels and Parleys of Margery Kempe, a 15th-Century Wife Part 4: Visual Representations Violence as a Theme in Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and Burn! Part 5: Child Abuse Older Relatives Raising Adolescents: The Relationship between Age of Caregiver and Youth Delinquent Acts Part 6: Language and the State Tracing the Linguistic ‘Agents’ of Illness and Disease in the End of Life Care The Arbitrariness Ring on the Chain of the Free-Floating Violence Part 7: Different Places, Different Worries An Inquiry into the Anticlerical Violence in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Part 8: Forms of Violence Violence, Morality and Tragedy: The Israeli Soldier in the Hebrew Literature of the Intifada Women and Armed Conflict: Specific Reference to Manipur, India