Laura Tolton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Tolton plays a role.
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2011 “He beat her so hard she fell head over heels”: Normalising wife abuse in Colombia Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures, Majstorović, Danijela and Inger Lassen (eds.), pp. 17–48 | Article
This chapter focuses on the discursive strategy of normalisation as one way wife abuse is legitimated in Colombia, exploring specific cultural aspects of this strategy and relating them to a more universal patriarchal ideology about violence against women. This study lies at the intersection of… read more