Jacqui True
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199755929
- eISBN:
- 9780199979516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199755929.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 5 explores how the growth of trade has facilitated the globalization of export-oriented, labor-intensive industries. The destabilization of social and economic life by macroeconomic policies ...
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Chapter 5 explores how the growth of trade has facilitated the globalization of export-oriented, labor-intensive industries. The destabilization of social and economic life by macroeconomic policies is associated with growing inequalities and increasing levels of violence against women in several regions. The creation of “free trade” exacerbates gendered inequalities and creates unregulated environments in which violence against women thrives. The first part of this chapter explores violence against women in countries that have undergone political and economic transitions, drawing on the case of Russia. The second part explores cases of both manufacturing and extractive export industries and their impact on violence against women, particularly the increasing incidence of femicide. The third part considers the role of international financial institutions that have extended development loans for export industries, exacerbating sexual and gender-based violence in places such as Papua New Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The chapter concludes by reflecting on initiatives that could forge nonviolent economies that improve gender-equal livelihoods and opportunities as a way to diminish the violence against women.Less
Chapter 5 explores how the growth of trade has facilitated the globalization of export-oriented, labor-intensive industries. The destabilization of social and economic life by macroeconomic policies is associated with growing inequalities and increasing levels of violence against women in several regions. The creation of “free trade” exacerbates gendered inequalities and creates unregulated environments in which violence against women thrives. The first part of this chapter explores violence against women in countries that have undergone political and economic transitions, drawing on the case of Russia. The second part explores cases of both manufacturing and extractive export industries and their impact on violence against women, particularly the increasing incidence of femicide. The third part considers the role of international financial institutions that have extended development loans for export industries, exacerbating sexual and gender-based violence in places such as Papua New Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The chapter concludes by reflecting on initiatives that could forge nonviolent economies that improve gender-equal livelihoods and opportunities as a way to diminish the violence against women.
Rachel Afi Quinn
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252043819
- eISBN:
- 9780252052712
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043819.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Memories of the Mirabal sisters’ murder in 1960 and a significant amount of United Nations resources (since the 1980s) have served to bolster a longstanding Dominican feminist movement, yet an ...
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Memories of the Mirabal sisters’ murder in 1960 and a significant amount of United Nations resources (since the 1980s) have served to bolster a longstanding Dominican feminist movement, yet an epidemic of femicides in the country continues. Highlighting surrealist notions of ambiguity, the femme-enfant, morbidity, and rage, this concluding chapter asserts that for Dominican women and girls their ambiguities of identity play into structures of power that sustain widespread gender-based violence. This chapter argues that the border between girlhood and womanhood further contributes to their precarity as lives devalued under neoliberalism. The chapter examines the narrative of Minerva Mirabal in a contemporary film, controversially portrayed by queer Dominican American actress Michelle Rodriguez, alongside two recent deaths of pregnant teenage girls also vulnerable to patriarchal violence.Less
Memories of the Mirabal sisters’ murder in 1960 and a significant amount of United Nations resources (since the 1980s) have served to bolster a longstanding Dominican feminist movement, yet an epidemic of femicides in the country continues. Highlighting surrealist notions of ambiguity, the femme-enfant, morbidity, and rage, this concluding chapter asserts that for Dominican women and girls their ambiguities of identity play into structures of power that sustain widespread gender-based violence. This chapter argues that the border between girlhood and womanhood further contributes to their precarity as lives devalued under neoliberalism. The chapter examines the narrative of Minerva Mirabal in a contemporary film, controversially portrayed by queer Dominican American actress Michelle Rodriguez, alongside two recent deaths of pregnant teenage girls also vulnerable to patriarchal violence.
Melissa W. Wright
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231154499
- eISBN:
- 9780231520843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231154499.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter explores the cost of establishing familiarity as the criterion for mobilizing political action in relation to discussions within the human rights literature regarding the political ...
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This chapter explores the cost of establishing familiarity as the criterion for mobilizing political action in relation to discussions within the human rights literature regarding the political advantages and disadvantages of forming social justice movements around the politics of testimonial witnessing. It considers the interconnection between witnessing and the politics of the familiar by focusing on the femicide movement in northern Mexico that, in the mid-1990s, galvanized political action against the murders and kidnappings of several hundred women and girls within a climate of state-sanctioned impunity. The chapter examines how the need to produce familiarity as the bond binding testifying witnesses to their witnessing public is currently limiting the femicide activists' ability to generate public protest over the escalation of violence against women and the curtailment of citizens' rights in relation to the government's drug war.Less
This chapter explores the cost of establishing familiarity as the criterion for mobilizing political action in relation to discussions within the human rights literature regarding the political advantages and disadvantages of forming social justice movements around the politics of testimonial witnessing. It considers the interconnection between witnessing and the politics of the familiar by focusing on the femicide movement in northern Mexico that, in the mid-1990s, galvanized political action against the murders and kidnappings of several hundred women and girls within a climate of state-sanctioned impunity. The chapter examines how the need to produce familiarity as the bond binding testifying witnesses to their witnessing public is currently limiting the femicide activists' ability to generate public protest over the escalation of violence against women and the curtailment of citizens' rights in relation to the government's drug war.
Tavia Nyong'o
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479856275
- eISBN:
- 9781479806386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479856275.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
By engaging interventionist art by women of color at two different scales—ephemeral body/earth art and monumental public art—this chapter supplements post-humanist theories of “deep time”—in ...
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By engaging interventionist art by women of color at two different scales—ephemeral body/earth art and monumental public art—this chapter supplements post-humanist theories of “deep time”—in particular, the temporality of the Anthropocene—with a concept of “dark time.” The intensive, alchemical, and obscure temporality of “dark time” is crucial to understanding black and brown feminist performance interventions against the violence of expropriative capitalism in the Americas. The chapter reads the art work of Kara Walker and Regina José Galindo through the poetry of Harryette Mullen and philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.Less
By engaging interventionist art by women of color at two different scales—ephemeral body/earth art and monumental public art—this chapter supplements post-humanist theories of “deep time”—in particular, the temporality of the Anthropocene—with a concept of “dark time.” The intensive, alchemical, and obscure temporality of “dark time” is crucial to understanding black and brown feminist performance interventions against the violence of expropriative capitalism in the Americas. The chapter reads the art work of Kara Walker and Regina José Galindo through the poetry of Harryette Mullen and philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.
Robert Paul Churchill
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190468569
- eISBN:
- 9780190468590
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190468569.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
Every year, thousands of girls and women die, often at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon their family—such transgressions ...
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Every year, thousands of girls and women die, often at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon their family—such transgressions range from walking with a boy in their neighborhood to seeking to marry a man of their own choosing to being a victim of rape. Women in the Crossfire presents a thorough examination of honor killing, an age-old social practice through which women are trapped and subjected to terror and deadly violence as consequences of the evolution of dysfunctional patriarchal structures and competition among men for domination. To understand the practice of honor killing, its root causes, and possibilities for protection and prevention, this book considers the issues from a variety of perspectives (epistemic, anthropological, sociological, cultural, ethical, historical, psychological, etc.) and makes use of original research—an analysis of a database of honor killing cases, published here for the first time. Specifically, the book addresses the salient traits and trends present in honor killing incidents and examines how honor is understood in sociocultural contexts where these killings occur. It illuminates socialization factors within honor-shame cultures that include gender construction, child-rearing practices, and adverse experiences that prime boys and men to take roles as one-day killers of sisters, daughters, and wives in the name of honor. In addition to this microcausal pathway, the book relies on theories of cultural evolution to explain how honor killing was an adaptation to specific ecological challenges and co-evolved with other patriarchic institutions.Less
Every year, thousands of girls and women die, often at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon their family—such transgressions range from walking with a boy in their neighborhood to seeking to marry a man of their own choosing to being a victim of rape. Women in the Crossfire presents a thorough examination of honor killing, an age-old social practice through which women are trapped and subjected to terror and deadly violence as consequences of the evolution of dysfunctional patriarchal structures and competition among men for domination. To understand the practice of honor killing, its root causes, and possibilities for protection and prevention, this book considers the issues from a variety of perspectives (epistemic, anthropological, sociological, cultural, ethical, historical, psychological, etc.) and makes use of original research—an analysis of a database of honor killing cases, published here for the first time. Specifically, the book addresses the salient traits and trends present in honor killing incidents and examines how honor is understood in sociocultural contexts where these killings occur. It illuminates socialization factors within honor-shame cultures that include gender construction, child-rearing practices, and adverse experiences that prime boys and men to take roles as one-day killers of sisters, daughters, and wives in the name of honor. In addition to this microcausal pathway, the book relies on theories of cultural evolution to explain how honor killing was an adaptation to specific ecological challenges and co-evolved with other patriarchic institutions.
Alison Brysk
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190901516
- eISBN:
- 9780190901554
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190901516.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
One out of three women in the world has suffered gender-based violence. Yet from #metoo to Malala to Maria da Penha, women are rising up and pushing back. The purpose of this book is to show how to ...
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One out of three women in the world has suffered gender-based violence. Yet from #metoo to Malala to Maria da Penha, women are rising up and pushing back. The purpose of this book is to show how to transform fear to freedom through a combination of international action, legal reform, public policy, mobilization, and value transformation. The Struggle analyzes drivers of violence and strategies for resistance in the semi-liberal countries at the frontiers of globalization. These hot-spots of violence represent the highly unequal middle-income countries, with declining citizenship and surging social conflict that now host two-thirds of the world’s population. The book profiles struggles against femicide, rape, trafficking, and related abuses in Brazil, India, South Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, Egypt, and Turkey in detail, with contrast cases beyond. Using the dual lenses of human rights and feminist theory of “gender regimes,” the book argues that different repertoires of abuse require distinct dynamics of change. Thus, The Struggle profiles strategies for transforming gendered power relations through multi-level campaigns on access to law and impunity, rights-based public policy, promotion of women’s agency, transforming violent masculinity, and reproductive rights. This study of campaigns to end gender violence at the frontiers of globalization expands our understanding of human rights reform pathways worldwide, and the interdependence of women’s rights with all struggles for justice.Less
One out of three women in the world has suffered gender-based violence. Yet from #metoo to Malala to Maria da Penha, women are rising up and pushing back. The purpose of this book is to show how to transform fear to freedom through a combination of international action, legal reform, public policy, mobilization, and value transformation. The Struggle analyzes drivers of violence and strategies for resistance in the semi-liberal countries at the frontiers of globalization. These hot-spots of violence represent the highly unequal middle-income countries, with declining citizenship and surging social conflict that now host two-thirds of the world’s population. The book profiles struggles against femicide, rape, trafficking, and related abuses in Brazil, India, South Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, Egypt, and Turkey in detail, with contrast cases beyond. Using the dual lenses of human rights and feminist theory of “gender regimes,” the book argues that different repertoires of abuse require distinct dynamics of change. Thus, The Struggle profiles strategies for transforming gendered power relations through multi-level campaigns on access to law and impunity, rights-based public policy, promotion of women’s agency, transforming violent masculinity, and reproductive rights. This study of campaigns to end gender violence at the frontiers of globalization expands our understanding of human rights reform pathways worldwide, and the interdependence of women’s rights with all struggles for justice.
Morena Tartari
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447321859
- eISBN:
- 9781447321880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447321859.003.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
This chapter concerns two social issues and their related contemporary moral panics in Italy: child abuse and femicide. Beginning from a national press analysis, the emergence of these panics, the ...
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This chapter concerns two social issues and their related contemporary moral panics in Italy: child abuse and femicide. Beginning from a national press analysis, the emergence of these panics, the disproportionality of the reaction and the role of the State in reinforcing the social concerns, are described and discussed.Less
This chapter concerns two social issues and their related contemporary moral panics in Italy: child abuse and femicide. Beginning from a national press analysis, the emergence of these panics, the disproportionality of the reaction and the role of the State in reinforcing the social concerns, are described and discussed.
Walter S. Dekeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz, and Martin D. Schwartz
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520285743
- eISBN:
- 9780520961159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520285743.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
How many women are victimized by lethal and nonlethal physical and sexual separation or divorce assault? What are the key risk factors associated with these harms? This chapter seeks to answer these ...
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How many women are victimized by lethal and nonlethal physical and sexual separation or divorce assault? What are the key risk factors associated with these harms? This chapter seeks to answer these questions, drawing from feminist and other sociological perspectives on violence against women.Less
How many women are victimized by lethal and nonlethal physical and sexual separation or divorce assault? What are the key risk factors associated with these harms? This chapter seeks to answer these questions, drawing from feminist and other sociological perspectives on violence against women.
Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231164924
- eISBN:
- 9780231539104
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231164924.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines femicide in Guatemala. By mid-2012, Guatemala had one of the highest femicide rates in the world, which is part of an escalating crisis that has gripped the nation since 2000. ...
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This chapter examines femicide in Guatemala. By mid-2012, Guatemala had one of the highest femicide rates in the world, which is part of an escalating crisis that has gripped the nation since 2000. Femicide refers specifically to the killing of women by men for no other reason than the victim is a female. It usually involves sexual violence, mutilation, “overkill,” and is motivated by hatred and misogyny. Murders stemming from domestic killings fall into this category, as do a significant number of the non-domestic killings of women now taking place throughout Central America. Irma Chacon, coordinator of the Sobrevivientes, an acclaimed Guatemala City-based women's shelter, comments, “The dismemberment and torture we are seeing represents a desire to annihilate women, to erase their identities, destroy their femininity and to engender fear so great that women and girls are afraid to leave their homes.”Less
This chapter examines femicide in Guatemala. By mid-2012, Guatemala had one of the highest femicide rates in the world, which is part of an escalating crisis that has gripped the nation since 2000. Femicide refers specifically to the killing of women by men for no other reason than the victim is a female. It usually involves sexual violence, mutilation, “overkill,” and is motivated by hatred and misogyny. Murders stemming from domestic killings fall into this category, as do a significant number of the non-domestic killings of women now taking place throughout Central America. Irma Chacon, coordinator of the Sobrevivientes, an acclaimed Guatemala City-based women's shelter, comments, “The dismemberment and torture we are seeing represents a desire to annihilate women, to erase their identities, destroy their femininity and to engender fear so great that women and girls are afraid to leave their homes.”
Sara L. McKinnon
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040450
- eISBN:
- 9780252098888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040450.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter presents the asylum cases made by women from Central America who claimed intimate and sexual violence as persecution from the late 1980s to the present. While these women struggled early ...
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This chapter presents the asylum cases made by women from Central America who claimed intimate and sexual violence as persecution from the late 1980s to the present. While these women struggled early on for recognition, a number of the claimants have seen recent success. The chapter demonstrates how shifting political and economic dynamics between the United States and Central American countries, and transnational publicity in the form of “women's rights as human rights” activism, provide the rhetorical pressure needed for the state to recognize intimate gender violence as sufficiently political and public to warrant these women's incorporation. The asylum grants also enable the United States to mask a history of violent involvement in Central American affairs to position itself as a pastoral state that protects and defends women from sexual violence.Less
This chapter presents the asylum cases made by women from Central America who claimed intimate and sexual violence as persecution from the late 1980s to the present. While these women struggled early on for recognition, a number of the claimants have seen recent success. The chapter demonstrates how shifting political and economic dynamics between the United States and Central American countries, and transnational publicity in the form of “women's rights as human rights” activism, provide the rhetorical pressure needed for the state to recognize intimate gender violence as sufficiently political and public to warrant these women's incorporation. The asylum grants also enable the United States to mask a history of violent involvement in Central American affairs to position itself as a pastoral state that protects and defends women from sexual violence.
B. V. Olguín
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198863090
- eISBN:
- 9780191895623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198863090.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Chapter 4 disentangles the distinct ideologies often conflated under the expansive and notoriously vague rubric of Latina/o “transnationalism.” It first interrogates the limits of Radical Regionalism ...
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Chapter 4 disentangles the distinct ideologies often conflated under the expansive and notoriously vague rubric of Latina/o “transnationalism.” It first interrogates the limits of Radical Regionalism Studies by explicating the specter of nationalism in Emma Pérez’s ostensibly contestatory Tejana lesbian feminist regionalist historical fiction. The chapter further deconstructs the Latina/o Studies fixation on hyperlocalities and celebratory transnationalisms by interrogating the various aestheticizations of violence in Latina/o literatures about Central American civil wars, femicide in the US-Mexico border, and revolutionary insurgencies throughout North, Central, and South America, in addition to the Caribbean. It closes by underscoring Pan-Latina/o political diversity through the recovery of testimonial prose and poetry from Latina/o internationalist partisans and combatants vis-à-vis the antitestimonial memoirs, novels, and poetry by and about right-wing Latina/o soldiers and CIA officers.Less
Chapter 4 disentangles the distinct ideologies often conflated under the expansive and notoriously vague rubric of Latina/o “transnationalism.” It first interrogates the limits of Radical Regionalism Studies by explicating the specter of nationalism in Emma Pérez’s ostensibly contestatory Tejana lesbian feminist regionalist historical fiction. The chapter further deconstructs the Latina/o Studies fixation on hyperlocalities and celebratory transnationalisms by interrogating the various aestheticizations of violence in Latina/o literatures about Central American civil wars, femicide in the US-Mexico border, and revolutionary insurgencies throughout North, Central, and South America, in addition to the Caribbean. It closes by underscoring Pan-Latina/o political diversity through the recovery of testimonial prose and poetry from Latina/o internationalist partisans and combatants vis-à-vis the antitestimonial memoirs, novels, and poetry by and about right-wing Latina/o soldiers and CIA officers.
Anne P. DePrince
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- April 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780197545744
- eISBN:
- 9780197545775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197545744.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
Many mass shootings have in common a link to violence against women, whether because the shooters targeted women and girls or had histories of perpetrating intimate violence. Drawing on research from ...
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Many mass shootings have in common a link to violence against women, whether because the shooters targeted women and girls or had histories of perpetrating intimate violence. Drawing on research from across the United States, the chapter argues that preventing mass shootings and other forms of gun violence requires also addressing violence against women. Evidence is presented on the links between gun violence and violence against women, including the use of guns to coerce and control victims as well as in intimate partner homicides. Further, research on the impact of gun policies on intimate violence, including the potential to prevent intimate partner homicides, is considered. The author proposes that adolescent dating violence prevention programs offer an important avenue to curb violence against women and, ultimately, gun violence.Less
Many mass shootings have in common a link to violence against women, whether because the shooters targeted women and girls or had histories of perpetrating intimate violence. Drawing on research from across the United States, the chapter argues that preventing mass shootings and other forms of gun violence requires also addressing violence against women. Evidence is presented on the links between gun violence and violence against women, including the use of guns to coerce and control victims as well as in intimate partner homicides. Further, research on the impact of gun policies on intimate violence, including the potential to prevent intimate partner homicides, is considered. The author proposes that adolescent dating violence prevention programs offer an important avenue to curb violence against women and, ultimately, gun violence.
Anne P. DePrince
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- April 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780197545744
- eISBN:
- 9780197545775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197545744.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
Violence against women is common around the world and one of many drivers of migration. Regardless of the reason people migrate to new countries, girls and women are at risk of exploitation and ...
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Violence against women is common around the world and one of many drivers of migration. Regardless of the reason people migrate to new countries, girls and women are at risk of exploitation and violence during migration. Upon reaching the United States, women seeking asylum are confronted by a changing legal landscape in which beliefs about intimate violence can affect policies and ultimately women’s safety and futures. For instance, the chapter considers the ways that stereotypes about how victims should behave can affect credible fear interviews in the asylum process. Immigrant women living in the United States face risks from intimate violence and barriers to services. For example, language and social barriers may prevent women from learning about and accessing social, legal, and medical services that can be critical to surviving intimate violence. Finally, the chapter explores the ways that anti-immigrant sentiment can make women and our communities less safe from intimate violence.Less
Violence against women is common around the world and one of many drivers of migration. Regardless of the reason people migrate to new countries, girls and women are at risk of exploitation and violence during migration. Upon reaching the United States, women seeking asylum are confronted by a changing legal landscape in which beliefs about intimate violence can affect policies and ultimately women’s safety and futures. For instance, the chapter considers the ways that stereotypes about how victims should behave can affect credible fear interviews in the asylum process. Immigrant women living in the United States face risks from intimate violence and barriers to services. For example, language and social barriers may prevent women from learning about and accessing social, legal, and medical services that can be critical to surviving intimate violence. Finally, the chapter explores the ways that anti-immigrant sentiment can make women and our communities less safe from intimate violence.
Alison Brysk
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190901516
- eISBN:
- 9780190901554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190901516.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
Chapter 6 concerns denial of women’s right to life . The new frame of “femicide” has dramatically increased attention to gender-based killing in the public and private sphere, and encompasses a ...
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Chapter 6 concerns denial of women’s right to life . The new frame of “femicide” has dramatically increased attention to gender-based killing in the public and private sphere, and encompasses a spectrum of threats and assaults that culminate in murder. The chapter follows the threats to women’s security through the life cycle, beginning with cases of “gendercide” (sex-selective abortion and infanticide) in India, then moving to honor killings in Turkey and Pakistan. We examine public femicide in Mexico and Central America—with comparison to the disappearance of indigenous women in Canada, as “second-class citizens” in a developed democracy. The chapter continues mapping the panorama of private sphere domestic violence in the semi-liberal gender regimes of China, Russia, Brazil, and the Philippines, along with a range of responses in law, public policy, advocacy, and protest.Less
Chapter 6 concerns denial of women’s right to life . The new frame of “femicide” has dramatically increased attention to gender-based killing in the public and private sphere, and encompasses a spectrum of threats and assaults that culminate in murder. The chapter follows the threats to women’s security through the life cycle, beginning with cases of “gendercide” (sex-selective abortion and infanticide) in India, then moving to honor killings in Turkey and Pakistan. We examine public femicide in Mexico and Central America—with comparison to the disappearance of indigenous women in Canada, as “second-class citizens” in a developed democracy. The chapter continues mapping the panorama of private sphere domestic violence in the semi-liberal gender regimes of China, Russia, Brazil, and the Philippines, along with a range of responses in law, public policy, advocacy, and protest.
Robert Paul Churchill
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190468569
- eISBN:
- 9780190468590
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190468569.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
This chapter explores the oddity and complexity of honor killing. Sample incidents are discussed to reveal the general features of honor killing as a traditional practice significantly different from ...
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This chapter explores the oddity and complexity of honor killing. Sample incidents are discussed to reveal the general features of honor killing as a traditional practice significantly different from other forms of femicide. Adopting the Human Rights Watch definition of honor killing as a neutral and provisional guide, the chapter argues that honor killing should be distinguished from crimes of passion, domestic violence, and crimes of violence. Honor killings uniquely involve perceived obligations to execute a dishonored female where male blood relatives serve as killers and killing is a means of restoring family honor. Although most common in Muslim-majority countries, this practice occurs globally and apparently at an increasing rate. There is continuing public support for honor killing in some countries where it has been traditional despite increased official efforts to criminalize the practice. There is no special connection between Islam and honor killing. No religion endorses honor killing.Less
This chapter explores the oddity and complexity of honor killing. Sample incidents are discussed to reveal the general features of honor killing as a traditional practice significantly different from other forms of femicide. Adopting the Human Rights Watch definition of honor killing as a neutral and provisional guide, the chapter argues that honor killing should be distinguished from crimes of passion, domestic violence, and crimes of violence. Honor killings uniquely involve perceived obligations to execute a dishonored female where male blood relatives serve as killers and killing is a means of restoring family honor. Although most common in Muslim-majority countries, this practice occurs globally and apparently at an increasing rate. There is continuing public support for honor killing in some countries where it has been traditional despite increased official efforts to criminalize the practice. There is no special connection between Islam and honor killing. No religion endorses honor killing.