Natural Resource Extraction and Violence against Women in Rural Places: Drilling Down on Patriarchy - Paperback

by Walter S. Dekeseredy (Author), Joseph F. Donnermeyer (Author), Jayne Mooney (Author)

Driven by sophisticated theoretical framework, this book calls upon the criminological community, especially feminist and rural criminologists, to stretch their theoretical imaginations to examine patriarchal linkages between localized expressions of patriarchy, natural resource extraction and violence against women.

Author Biography

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University.

Joseph F. Donnermeyer is a rural criminologist retired from the School of Environment and Natural Resources at the Ohio State University, and co-editor of the International Journal of Rural Criminology. He is co-founder of the Division of Rural Criminology, American Society of Criminology.

Jayne Mooney is Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.