Gender Violence And Attitudes

Author : Satu Lidman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351600057

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Gender, Violence and Attitudes by Satu Lidman Pdf

Gender, Violence and Attitudes explores the history of gender-based violence in early modern Europe, particularly intimate-partner violence and sexual violence. It also investigates the legacy of gender-based violence through the Enlightenment to the present day and offers a historical background to highly topical human rights issues. Although the individual subjects of gender and the history of violence are not new topics, the gendering of violence has received little examination. Within this book, the history of attitudes and practices related to gender and power are analysed, and the nature of violence, justice and societal considerations of gender are explored as cultural constructs: they have the capacity to change over time, although there also is a tendency for continuity. The study is based on a wide range of sources including marriage guides, poems, plays, legal texts and court records exploring deep-rooted violence phenomena in Sweden (including historical Finland), the German territories, England and, to some extent, France. Offering a detailed analysis of gender and the culture of violence, Gender, Violence and Attitudes is essential reading for students and general readers who wish to understand the history of violence and its continual association with gender from early modern Europe to the present day.

Author : Melinda R. York
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1593324634

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Gender Attitudes and Violence Against Women by Melinda R. York Pdf

"York seeks to answer the question of the extent to which traditional beliefs about gender or gender roles are associated with increased levels of sexual assault and/or domestic violence. She also investigates the extent to which social capital serves as a protective factor with respect to the safety of women. The prevalence of traditional gender attitudes predicted rates of violence against women, specifically sexual assault and domestic violence, while social capital serves as a mitigating factor. In counties with less social capital and more traditional gender attitudes, there were substantial increases in sexual and physical assaults inflicted upon women by men. These findings confirm the theoretical literature on patriarchy and socialization into gender roles."--pub. desc.

Author : Mario Schlemmer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783346098832

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Examining Gender-Related Differences in the Implicit Attitude Towards Partner Violence by Mario Schlemmer Pdf

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: 1, Klagenfurt University (Institut für Psychologie), language: English, abstract: This thesis explores if the implicit attitude towards intimate partner violence (IPV) varies systematically as a function of observers and perpetrators gender, if women and men as observers have different implicit attitude towards IPV depending on which gender is the perpetrator and which gender is the victim of IPV. Until recently research on attitudes towards IPV has focused on explicit attitudes, while partner violence may have automatic behavioral components guided by implicit beliefs and attitudes. In the present thesis, the IAT - a measure of implicit attitudes that is easily adaptable to different contexts - measured participants implicit attitude towards gender-specific physical IPV. Participants (74 women and 20 men) also completed explicit measures which assessed partner violence victimization and perpetration, emotional flooding, feminist attitudes, rape myth acceptance, explicit attitudes towards IPV and depressive symptoms. The analysis revealed that in the IAT women strongly preferred violence of women against men over violence of men against women, while male participants showed no gendered bias. This finding demonstrates the importance of women's own gender bias for their implicit attitude towards incidents of intimate partner violence.

Author : Melinda R. York
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Men
ISBN : 1593326785

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Gender Attitudes and Violence Against Women by Melinda R. York Pdf

York seeks to answer the question of the extent to which traditional beliefs about gender or gender roles are associated with increased levels of sexual assault and/or domestic violence. She also investigates the extent to which social capital serves as a protective factor with respect to the safety of women. The prevalence of traditional gender attitudes predicted rates of violence against women, specifically sexual assault and domestic violence, while social capital serves as a mitigating factor. In counties with less social capital and more traditional gender attitudes, there were substantial increases in sexual and physical assaults inflicted upon women by men. These findings confirm the theoretical literature on patriarchy and socialization into gender roles.

Author : Sarah Bott,Andrew Morrison,Mary Ellsberg
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sexual harassment of women
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Preventing and Responding to Gender-based Violence in Middle and Low-income Countries by Sarah Bott,Andrew Morrison,Mary Ellsberg Pdf

Worldwide, patterns of violence against women differ markedly from violence against men. For example, women are more likely than men to be sexually assaulted or killed by someone they know. The United Nations has defined violence against women as "gender-based" violence, to acknowledge that such violence is rooted in gender inequality and is often tolerated and condoned by laws, institutions, and community norms. Violence against women is not only a profound violation of human rights, but also a costly impediment to a country's national development. While gender-based violence occurs in many forms throughout the life cycle, this review focuses on two of the most common types-physical intimate partner violence and sexual violence by any perpetrator. Unfortunately, the knowledge base about effective initiatives to prevent and respond to gender-based violence is relatively limited. Few approaches have been rigorously evaluated, even in high-income countries. And such evaluations involve numerous methodological challenges. Nonetheless, the authors review what is known about more and less effective-or at least promising-approaches to prevent and respond to gender-based violence. They present definitions, recent statistics, health consequences, costs, and risk factors of gender-based violence. The authors analyze good practice initiatives in the justice, health, and education sectors, as well as multisectoral approaches. For each of these sectors, they examine initiatives that have addressed laws and policies, institutional reforms, community mobilization, and individual behavior change strategies. Finally, the authors identify priorities for future research and action, including funding research on the health and socioeconomic costs of violence against women, encouraging science-based program evaluations, disseminating evaluation results across countries, promoting investment in effective prevention and treatment initiatives, and encouraging public-private partnerships.

Author : Christopher Kilmartin,Julie Allison
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781135597962

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Men's Violence Against Women by Christopher Kilmartin,Julie Allison Pdf

This text offers a balance of clinical and social psychological theory and research, as well as prevention and intervention techniques with the purpose of understanding and ultimately ending gender-based violence.

Author : Kim Webster,Kristin Diemer,Nikki Honey,Samantha Mannix,Justine Mickle,Jenny Morgan,Alexandra Parkes,Violeta Marticorena Politoff,Anastasia Powell,Julie Stubbs,Andrew Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 192537291X

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Australians¿ Attitudes to Violence Against Women and Gender Equality by Kim Webster,Kristin Diemer,Nikki Honey,Samantha Mannix,Justine Mickle,Jenny Morgan,Alexandra Parkes,Violeta Marticorena Politoff,Anastasia Powell,Julie Stubbs,Andrew Ward Pdf

Author : Yanyi K. Djamba,Sitawa R. Kimuna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319166704

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Gender-Based Violence by Yanyi K. Djamba,Sitawa R. Kimuna Pdf

This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the levels and the socio-demographic determinants of domestic violence, but topics ranging from men’s attitudes toward wife beating; domestic violence-related adolescent deaths, and women’s health problems due to sexual and physical abuse. With a comprehensive introduction that provides a comparative international research framework for discussing gender-based violence in these three unique regions, this volume provides a key basis for understanding gender-based violence on a more global level. Part I, on Africa, covers men’s attitudes towards domestic violence, the impact of poverty and fertility, the association between adolescent deaths and domestic violence, and the link between domestic abuse and HIV. Part II, on the Middle East, covers the importance of consanguinity on domestic violence in Egypt and Jordan, the effects of physical abuse on reproductive health, and the link between political unrests and women’s experience and attitudes towards domestic violence. Part III, on India, shows how sexual abuse puts women at risk of reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections, as well as the role of gender norms in wife abuse and the role of youth aggressive behavior in nonconsensual sex. With such a deep and broad coverage of factors of intimate partner abuse, this book serves as a reference document for researchers, decision-makers, and organizations that are searching for ways to reduce gender-based domestic violence. This book is of interest for researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as Sociology, Social Work, Public Health and Human Rights.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Global Violence Prevention
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309211543

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Preventing Violence Against Women and Children by Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Global Violence Prevention Pdf

Violence against women and children is a serious public health concern, with costs at multiple levels of society. Although violence is a threat to everyone, women and children are particularly susceptible to victimization because they often have fewer rights or lack appropriate means of protection. In some societies certain types of violence are deemed socially or legally acceptable, thereby contributing further to the risk to women and children. In the past decade research has documented the growing magnitude of such violence, but gaps in the data still remain. Victims of violence of any type fear stigmatization or societal condemnation and thus often hesitate to report crimes. The issue is compounded by the fact that for women and children the perpetrators are often people they know and because some countries lack laws or regulations protecting victims. Some of the data that have been collected suggest that rates of violence against women range from 15 to 71 percent in some countries and that rates of violence against children top 80 percent. These data demonstrate that violence poses a high burden on global health and that violence against women and children is common and universal. Preventing Violence Against Women and Children focuses on these elements of the cycle as they relate to interrupting this transmission of violence. Intervention strategies include preventing violence before it starts as well as preventing recurrence, preventing adverse effects (such as trauma or the consequences of trauma), and preventing the spread of violence to the next generation or social level. Successful strategies consider the context of the violence, such as family, school, community, national, or regional settings, in order to determine the best programs.

Author : Michael P. Johnson
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781555537418

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A Typology of Domestic Violence by Michael P. Johnson Pdf

Reassesses thirty years of domestic violence research and demonstrates three forms of partner violence, distinctive in their origins, effects, and treatments

Author : Richard E. Petty,Russell H. Fazio,Pablo Brinol
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136678370

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Attitudes by Richard E. Petty,Russell H. Fazio,Pablo Brinol Pdf

This book tackles a subject that has captured the imagination of many researchers in the field: attitudes. Although the field has always recognized that people‘s attitudes could be assessed in different ways, from direct self-reports to disguised observations of behavior, the past decade has shown several new approaches to attitude measurement. Des

Author : Nadia Aghtaie,Geetanjali Gangoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135107949

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Understanding Gender Based Violence by Nadia Aghtaie,Geetanjali Gangoli Pdf

This book aims to bring together the pioneering research on gender based violence that has been conducted by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Topics discussed include violence in young people’s relationships, prostitution policy, disabled women’s experiences of domestic violence, men as victims of domestic violence, feminist movements and methodological concerns. This book will have a wide appeal, as each individual chapter builds on and contributes to existing global and national concerns about gender based violence. The book starts with an exploration of key theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues in researching gender based violence, then moves on to look at specific national (UK) based empirical studies. The final section brings together a wide range of research from diverse contexts, ranging from China, Iran, India and refugee camps in Rwanda. The book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, students and practitioners who have an interest in this area, as well as for policymakers around the world. It will also be of interest to the general reader who wants to learn more about what is now a highly topical issue.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp,Myra Marx Ferree,Christina Ewig
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814764909

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Gender, Violence, and Human Security by Aili Mari Tripp,Myra Marx Ferree,Christina Ewig Pdf

The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe. This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term “human security” from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.

Author : Andy J. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781493922666

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Religion and Men's Violence Against Women by Andy J. Johnson Pdf

This reference offers the nuanced understanding and practical guidance needed to address domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in diverse religious communities. Introductory chapters sort through the complexities, from abusers' distorting of sacred texts to justifying their actions to survivors' conflicting feelings toward their faith. The core of the book surveys findings on gender violence across Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Eastern, and Indigenous traditions--both attitudes that promote abuse and spiritual resources that can be used to promote healing. Best practices are included for appropriate treatment of survivors, their children, and abusers; and for partnering with communities and clergy toward stemming violence against women. Among the topics featured: Ecclesiastical policies vs. lived social relationships: gender parity, attitudes, and ethics. Women’s spiritual struggles and resources to cope with intimate partner aggression. Christian stereotypes and violence against North America’s native women. Addressing intimate partner violence in rural church communities. Collaboration between community service agencies and faith-based institutions. Providing hope in faith communities: creating a domestic violence policy for families. Religion and Men's Violence against Women will gain a wide audience among psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and other mental health professionals who treat religious clients or specialize in treating survivors and perpetrators of domestic and intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual assault, rape, or human trafficking.

Author : Briavel Holcomb,Meredeth Turshen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313391132

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Women's Lives and Public Policy by Briavel Holcomb,Meredeth Turshen Pdf

At all levels of government--from the international to the local--public policies are formulated mainly by men, but their impacts are felt, sometimes differently, by women, men, and children. This book considers the impact of public policy on various aspects of women's lives, including sex and birth, marriage and death, work and child rearing, and women's responses to those policies. Written by scholars who have lived on five continents, the chapters span the First and Third Worlds, with several providing case illustrations of policies affecting women in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Written by scholars from several disciplines, the volume includes the fields of economics, politics, and planning. Literature also is covered, along with women's fiction as a source of women's opinions. The work is divided into two sections. The first section, Economic Policies and Migration, considers the impact of economic and demographic policies. The second section, Sex and Marriage, Violence and Control, considers policies relating to women's interpersonal relationships. Urban culture is discussed in an epilogue.