Overcoming Violence against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem

Penn and Nardos' text is beautifully written about a very painful topic. The carefully documented evidence of discrimination and violence against women and girls, that the book provides, would be depressing and demoralizing if the authors hadn't also offered a variety of solutions, both interpersonal and systemically-global, to stop such violence. The book has a sophisticated integration of data-based research, ethical reasoning, and spiritual insights. It galvanized me to examine my own inner prejudices and motivated me to increase my personal response to gendered based violence. Members and employees of our local YWCA, which maintains a battered women's (domestic violence) shelter, have praised the book to me. I have been recommending the text to all my psychology students at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho (and had a copy purchased by our college library).