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Violence Against Women (VAW) peer-reviewed and published 16 times a year, is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. VAW assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infantcide, female genital cutting (FGC), and female sexual slavery. View full journal description

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Claire M. Renzetti
University of Kentucky, USA

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