The Cunning Of Gender Violence

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod,Rema Hammami,Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478024545

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The Cunning of Gender Violence by Lila Abu-Lughod,Rema Hammami,Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Pdf

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey as well as on UN and US policies trace the silences and omissions, along with the experiences of those subjected to violence, to question the rhetoric that claims the agenda as a “feminist success story.” Because religion and racialized ethnicity, particularly “the Muslim question,” run so deeply through the institutional structures of the agenda, the contributions explore ways it may be affirming or enabling rationales and systems of power, including civilizational hierarchies, that harm the very people it seeks to protect. Contributors. Lila Abu-Lughod, Nina Berman, Inderpal Grewal, Rema Hammami, Janet R. Jakobsen, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Vasuki Nesiah, Samira Shackle, Sima Shakhsari, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Dina M Siddiqi, Shahla Talebi, Leti Volpp, Rafia Zakaria

Author : Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444357141

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Gender Violence by Sally Engle Merry Pdf

Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms of violence in gendered relationships Extensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, female infanticide, “honor” killings, and sex trafficking Examines major approaches to diminishing gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventions Highlights the role of social movements in defining the problem and mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally

Author : Charlotte Bunch,Roxanna Carillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Women
ISBN : 0460881205

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Gender Violence by Charlotte Bunch,Roxanna Carillo Pdf

Author : Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444321012

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Gender Violence by Sally Engle Merry Pdf

Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms of violence in gendered relationships Extensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, female infanticide, “honor” killings, and sex trafficking Examines major approaches to diminishing gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventions Highlights the role of social movements in defining the problem and mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally

Author : Satu Lidman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Rashmi Goel,Leigh Goodmark
Publisher : Interpersonal Violence
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780199346578

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Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence by Rashmi Goel,Leigh Goodmark Pdf

This volume documents the global scope of gender violence, from countries where the legal response is just emerging to countries with long-standing law and policy regimes. Informed by international human rights law, it examines policy successes and failures, as well as grassroots efforts, to elicit a robust and proactive response from China to Chile. From the work of local activists to stem the tide of sexual and intimate partner violence after the Haitian earthquake of 2005, to the efforts to eradicate dowry-related violence in India, to the public education campaigns to prevent domestic violence in Scotland, it offers a comprehensive vision of efforts around the world to eradicate gender based violence - and a new lens through which to consider US efforts to address this kind of violence.

Author : Nadia Aghtaie,Geetanjali Gangoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135107871

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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 : Laura L. O'Toole,Jessica R. Schiffman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814780411

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Gender Violence by Laura L. O'Toole,Jessica R. Schiffman Pdf

How gender and sexuality can be life threatening Though violence against women has received increasing attention from scholars and the general public alike, much of the literature on the subject is scattered in monographs, journals, and books focusing on specific forms of gender violence. In their path-breaking anthology Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, editors Laura L. O'Toole and Jessica Schiffman have brought together central articles and authors to construct a remarkably broad understanding of the gender-related manifestations of violence. Gender Violence is composed of three sections—one examining the roots of male violence and victimization of women, another exploring forms of sexual coercion and violence, and a third offering a number of perspectives on promoting nonviolence in the context of gender relations. Chapters consider topics including sexual harassment, rape, children and gender violence, battering in intimate relationships, and pornography. The list of contributors includes such diverse and well known scholars as Friedrich Engels, bell hooks, Diana Scully, Harry Brod, and Linda Gordon, and poets such as Audre Lorde and Margaret Randall. The book also contains a number of original pieces with novel approaches to subjects such as domestic violence and its effects on children. With its interdisciplinary perspective and wide-ranging subject matter, Gender Violence is an excellent primary text as well as an invaluable reference for scholars in the field of women and violence.

Author : V. Nikolic-Ristanovic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1402007264

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Social Change, Gender and Violence by V. Nikolic-Ristanovic Pdf

Social Change, Gender and Violence explores the impact of transition from communism and war on the everyday life of women and men, as well as the ways in which everyday life and gender-related changes affect women's vulnerability to domestic violence and trafficking in women. The book also explores the impact of micro-level changes on the development of civil society, women's movement, and legal and policy changes regarding violence against women.--BOOK JACKET.

Author : K. Throsby,F. Alexander
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230228429

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Gender and Interpersonal Violence by K. Throsby,F. Alexander Pdf

Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered interpersonal violence, and identifies emerging sites and forms of resistance to it.

Author : Laura L. O'Toole,Jessica R. Schiffman,Margie L. Kiter Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family violence
ISBN : 0814762530

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Gender Violence by Laura L. O'Toole,Jessica R. Schiffman,Margie L. Kiter Edwards Pdf

Author : Rebecca Álvarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000174137

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Vigilante Gender Violence by Rebecca Álvarez Pdf

In recent years, mob attacks on women by men have drawn public attention to an emerging social phenomenon. This book draws upon concepts from critical race theory and sociocultural evolutionary theory to examine this specific form of gender violence, which takes place outside the law and is a vigilante form of enforcing traditional gender norms. The author positions vigilante gender violence as a global issue produced during specific periods of sociocultural change in conditions marked by intensified social stratification. The catalyst for vigilante gender violence is the formal state’s breaching of the "gender bargain," the tacit psychological wage even non-elite men earn by at least not being female. When the state threatens to end the gender bargain by promoting women’s rights, the die is cast for low-status men to enforce this bargain themselves in mob attacks against women who are perceived to be violating the patriarchal order. Seen through independent case studies in different national settings, this book provides empirical evidence that demonstrates the existence of vigilante gender violence in times when societies are shifting from one phase to another and the social hierarchies present within are disrupted. With greater understanding of when and how to predict the occurrence of this phenomenon, the author posits notable ways to prevent it from happening altogether.

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674727502

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod Pdf

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Author : Janet Elise Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780253220745

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Gender Violence in Russia by Janet Elise Johnson Pdf

Just a few years ago, most Russian citizens did not recognize the notion of domestic violence or acknowledge that such a problem existed. Today, after years of local and international pressure to combat violence against women, things have changed dramatically. Gender Violence in Russia examines why and how this shift occurred—and why there has been no similar reform on other gender violence issues such as rape, sexual assault, or human trafficking. Drawing on more than a decade of research, Janet Elise Johnson analyzes media coverage and survey data to explain why some interventions succeed while others fail. She describes the local-global dynamics between a range of international actors, from feminist activists to national governments, and an equally diverse set of Russian organizations and institutions.

Author : Hillary J. Haldane,Jennifer R. Wies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498509053

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence by Hillary J. Haldane,Jennifer R. Wies Pdf

Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.