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Dr. Margie Kiter Edwards Dr. Margie L. Kiter Edwards received the B.A. in Sociology from Rutger's University, the M.A. in Sociology from the University of Delaware, and the Ph.D. in Family Studies from the University of Delaware. In fall 2005, she joined Shepherd University as Assistant Professor of Sociology after teaching for over ten years at the University of Delaware. Her research and teaching interests include gender and sexuality, interpersonal violence, women's labor, and working class family life. Along with her colleagues, Laura O'Toole (Roanoke College) and Jessica Schiffman (University of Delaware), Margie recently completed the text-reader, Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, which will be published by NYU Press in May 2007.
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"Normal" Violence and Intimate Terrorism: A Typology of Gendered Violence
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As the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community, the widespread rape of women in the Sudan, gay bashing on playgrounds and campuses across the country, and the daily battering of children in their own homes reveals, gendered violence is a persistent, pervasive phenomenon in the United States and around the world. Some of these acts of violence are believed to result from the behavior of a few pathological persons who regularly operate outside of social norms, while others are commonly understood to be the result of average people “losing control” during moments of extreme stress. This distinction supports the use of aggression and assault as culturally acceptable mechanisms of social control within privatized relationships, public spaces, and organizational settings.
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