Sheltering women is an ethnographic study of grassroots efforts to counter heterosexual intimate partner violence in a northern italian community but this description simply captures the books starting point sonja plessets study is actually a nuanced and theoretically rich analysis of gender relations in the broadest sense a highly readable intriguing account of the context and cultural . Click on the article title to read more. Residents of parma italy pride themselves on their sophistication and connection to european modernity but despite a reputation for civility intimate partner violence continues to take place largely hidden from public view offering a detailed ethnography of two womens shelters one leftist the other catholic this book provides the political cultural and legal contexts of competing . Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more. Sheltering women negotiating gender and violence in northern italy by sonja plesset