Julie Stubbs
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195335484
- eISBN:
- 9780199864331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335484.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Crime and Justice
This chapter reviews debates about the use of Restorative Justice (RJ) for gendered violence, such as domestic violence or family violence. It identifies theoretical and empirical limitations to the ...
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This chapter reviews debates about the use of Restorative Justice (RJ) for gendered violence, such as domestic violence or family violence. It identifies theoretical and empirical limitations to the capacity of generic models of RJ to promote victim interests for offences related to violence against women. Part 2 considers gendered violence in Indigenous communities and notes that research and commentary often fails to recognize Indigenous women’s needs and interests. It concludes that the best way forward is to move beyond oppositional contrasts between RJ and criminal justice to develop hybrid models that adopt anti-subordination as a principle, supported by the requisite resources to protect that end, in working towards safe and just outcomes.Less
This chapter reviews debates about the use of Restorative Justice (RJ) for gendered violence, such as domestic violence or family violence. It identifies theoretical and empirical limitations to the capacity of generic models of RJ to promote victim interests for offences related to violence against women. Part 2 considers gendered violence in Indigenous communities and notes that research and commentary often fails to recognize Indigenous women’s needs and interests. It concludes that the best way forward is to move beyond oppositional contrasts between RJ and criminal justice to develop hybrid models that adopt anti-subordination as a principle, supported by the requisite resources to protect that end, in working towards safe and just outcomes.
Shirley Jülich
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195335484
- eISBN:
- 9780199864331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335484.003.0011
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Crime and Justice
Chapter Abstract: This chapter investigates whether restorative justice has the potential to not only provide victims of gendered violence with a sense of justice but also ...
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Chapter Abstract: This chapter investigates whether restorative justice has the potential to not only provide victims of gendered violence with a sense of justice but also whether it can address violence that is power-based and reflective of entrenched societal attitudes and beliefs. Contextualized in the New Zealand environment, the chapter explores victims’ understandings of justice and critiques three fundamental principles of restorative justice: the involvement of victims, the negotiation of a community response, and the transfer of power to the community. Further, it discusses how Project Restore, a restorative justice provider group, uses restorative justice to address gendered violence. The chapter concludes with an analysis of neutrality, impartiality, and confidentiality: practice issues that are particularly relevant when addressing gendered violence.Less
Chapter Abstract: This chapter investigates whether restorative justice has the potential to not only provide victims of gendered violence with a sense of justice but also whether it can address violence that is power-based and reflective of entrenched societal attitudes and beliefs. Contextualized in the New Zealand environment, the chapter explores victims’ understandings of justice and critiques three fundamental principles of restorative justice: the involvement of victims, the negotiation of a community response, and the transfer of power to the community. Further, it discusses how Project Restore, a restorative justice provider group, uses restorative justice to address gendered violence. The chapter concludes with an analysis of neutrality, impartiality, and confidentiality: practice issues that are particularly relevant when addressing gendered violence.
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/9780199755929.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the problem of violence against women identified by women's movements, states, and international organizations. It explores prevailing definitions of violence ...
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Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the problem of violence against women identified by women's movements, states, and international organizations. It explores prevailing definitions of violence against women, including the increasingly common term gender-based violence, and introduces the political economy approach of this book, which seeks to understand the broader context of violence and insecurity experienced by many women. The chapter also reviews the available assessments and data on the prevalence of violence against women and the many methodological and political challenges with measuring this violence globally.Less
Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the problem of violence against women identified by women's movements, states, and international organizations. It explores prevailing definitions of violence against women, including the increasingly common term gender-based violence, and introduces the political economy approach of this book, which seeks to understand the broader context of violence and insecurity experienced by many women. The chapter also reviews the available assessments and data on the prevalence of violence against women and the many methodological and political challenges with measuring this violence globally.
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/9780199755929.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 9 investigates how global environmental forces in the form of natural disasters from floods, droughts, and famines to earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes affect the life expectancies of ...
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Chapter 9 investigates how global environmental forces in the form of natural disasters from floods, droughts, and famines to earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes affect the life expectancies of women and men differently. The first part of the chapter reveals that women's low social and economic status is a major determinant of their experiences during and after a disaster and conceptualizes natural disasters as social disasters that magnify existing, socially constructed inequalities and oppressions. Looking at the case of the South Asian tsunami disaster, the second part of the chapter investigates the gendered impact of the disaster in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, in terms of mortalities, increases in gender-based violence, the impact of humanitarian relief, compensation schemes, and recovery programs after the tsunami and the agency of women compared with men in decisions about reconstruction and future disaster preparedness and planning. The third part of the chapter argues that gender-sensitive planning and deliberation involving women can prevent this violence and offers some lessons based on primary research of responses to the 2009–10 Christchurch earthquakes. The final part of the chapter draws implications from these natural disasters for climate change and its impact on gendered violence.Less
Chapter 9 investigates how global environmental forces in the form of natural disasters from floods, droughts, and famines to earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes affect the life expectancies of women and men differently. The first part of the chapter reveals that women's low social and economic status is a major determinant of their experiences during and after a disaster and conceptualizes natural disasters as social disasters that magnify existing, socially constructed inequalities and oppressions. Looking at the case of the South Asian tsunami disaster, the second part of the chapter investigates the gendered impact of the disaster in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, in terms of mortalities, increases in gender-based violence, the impact of humanitarian relief, compensation schemes, and recovery programs after the tsunami and the agency of women compared with men in decisions about reconstruction and future disaster preparedness and planning. The third part of the chapter argues that gender-sensitive planning and deliberation involving women can prevent this violence and offers some lessons based on primary research of responses to the 2009–10 Christchurch earthquakes. The final part of the chapter draws implications from these natural disasters for climate change and its impact on gendered violence.
Rauna Kuokkanen
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190913281
- eISBN:
- 9780190913311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190913281.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Theory
Indigenous feminist discourse links the realities of multilayered violence faced by Indigenous women to questions of self-determination, self-government, and the survival of Indigenous communities. ...
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Indigenous feminist discourse links the realities of multilayered violence faced by Indigenous women to questions of self-determination, self-government, and the survival of Indigenous communities. This chapter considers how Indigenous political institutions and leadership address gendered violence. Nearly all interviewees agreed that violence against women is a self-determination issue, but pointed out that existing self-government institutions do not address the problem as such (if at all). Another problem, also mentioned by some interviewees, is the limited resources. There are, however, increasing attempts to address violence against Indigenous women by Indigenous political institutions, including self-government bodies, although there is considerable variance between the three regions examined here. Building on existing considerations of gendered violence and gender justice in Indigenous contexts and using interview data, the author advances a theory of Indigenous self-determination that affirms Indigenous women’s rights and gender justice.Less
Indigenous feminist discourse links the realities of multilayered violence faced by Indigenous women to questions of self-determination, self-government, and the survival of Indigenous communities. This chapter considers how Indigenous political institutions and leadership address gendered violence. Nearly all interviewees agreed that violence against women is a self-determination issue, but pointed out that existing self-government institutions do not address the problem as such (if at all). Another problem, also mentioned by some interviewees, is the limited resources. There are, however, increasing attempts to address violence against Indigenous women by Indigenous political institutions, including self-government bodies, although there is considerable variance between the three regions examined here. Building on existing considerations of gendered violence and gender justice in Indigenous contexts and using interview data, the author advances a theory of Indigenous self-determination that affirms Indigenous women’s rights and gender justice.
Cecilia Menjívar
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520267664
- eISBN:
- 9780520948419
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520267664.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter discusses the conceptual framework for the analysis of violence. The conceptual framework includes structural, political, symbolic, everyday, and gendered violence. It introduces the ...
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This chapter discusses the conceptual framework for the analysis of violence. The conceptual framework includes structural, political, symbolic, everyday, and gendered violence. It introduces the study participants, who are Guatemalan women, and lays out the components of the framework to illustrate the different forms of violence and the normalization of each form. In this chapter, three points are clarified. First, the multiple forms of violence never occur in isolation. Second, violence is normalized in the women's everyday lives. Third, not all societies recognize the normalized violence against women as violent either in its origins or in its effects.Less
This chapter discusses the conceptual framework for the analysis of violence. The conceptual framework includes structural, political, symbolic, everyday, and gendered violence. It introduces the study participants, who are Guatemalan women, and lays out the components of the framework to illustrate the different forms of violence and the normalization of each form. In this chapter, three points are clarified. First, the multiple forms of violence never occur in isolation. Second, violence is normalized in the women's everyday lives. Third, not all societies recognize the normalized violence against women as violent either in its origins or in its effects.
Suzanne Franzway, Nicole Moulding, Sarah Wendt, Carole Zufferey, and Donna Chung
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447337782
- eISBN:
- 9781447337836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447337782.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter draws together theoretical perspectives in developing an argument about gendered violence and women's citizenship. It suggests that the state's role in securing, enabling, and ...
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This chapter draws together theoretical perspectives in developing an argument about gendered violence and women's citizenship. It suggests that the state's role in securing, enabling, and maintaining the rights of citizens plays an important part in how violence is perpetrated and challenged. The apparent failure of the state to protect women as citizens from persistent violence is examined, with particular attention to the sexual politics of power and violence and the interconnections of material conditions, discourses, and subjectivities in the everyday life of the citizen. The chapter proposes that the persistence of domestic violence is implicated in the sexual politics of citizenship. In addition, the discursive impact of a politics of ignorance serves to deny or obscure how women's inequality, materially and discursively, is produced and reproduced in everyday life.Less
This chapter draws together theoretical perspectives in developing an argument about gendered violence and women's citizenship. It suggests that the state's role in securing, enabling, and maintaining the rights of citizens plays an important part in how violence is perpetrated and challenged. The apparent failure of the state to protect women as citizens from persistent violence is examined, with particular attention to the sexual politics of power and violence and the interconnections of material conditions, discourses, and subjectivities in the everyday life of the citizen. The chapter proposes that the persistence of domestic violence is implicated in the sexual politics of citizenship. In addition, the discursive impact of a politics of ignorance serves to deny or obscure how women's inequality, materially and discursively, is produced and reproduced in everyday life.
Suzanne Clisby and Julia Holdsworth
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781847426772
- eISBN:
- 9781447311645
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426772.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter explores understandings and experiences of gender-based violence and argues that GBV should be located along a broad, socio-culturally entrenched continuum of violence against women and ...
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This chapter explores understandings and experiences of gender-based violence and argues that GBV should be located along a broad, socio-culturally entrenched continuum of violence against women and girls, men and boys. Violence is so embedded within our cultural productions of masculinities and femininities that experiencing some form of GBV – be that through sexually objectifying images, sexual harassment, physical, domestic or emotional violence – is almost an ordinary rather than extraordinary life experience for many women and men in our society. Here the chapter returns to the framework set out in chapter one: the triad of violence played out along a continuum, considering how directly visceral violence intersects with Bourdieu’s (2001) symbolic violence which simultaneously works alongside Farmer’s (2004) structural violence. This chapter locates women’s experiences of violence both through their own narratives and through contemporary statistical and contextual data. The authors argue that women are situated knowers who articulate the impacts of overt and covert forms of gender-based subordination on the material conditions of their lives as well as on their sense of self and mental wellbeing. Recognising and identifying a problem, however, does not automatically equip us to eliminate that problem, especially when those problems have structural rather than personal rootsLess
This chapter explores understandings and experiences of gender-based violence and argues that GBV should be located along a broad, socio-culturally entrenched continuum of violence against women and girls, men and boys. Violence is so embedded within our cultural productions of masculinities and femininities that experiencing some form of GBV – be that through sexually objectifying images, sexual harassment, physical, domestic or emotional violence – is almost an ordinary rather than extraordinary life experience for many women and men in our society. Here the chapter returns to the framework set out in chapter one: the triad of violence played out along a continuum, considering how directly visceral violence intersects with Bourdieu’s (2001) symbolic violence which simultaneously works alongside Farmer’s (2004) structural violence. This chapter locates women’s experiences of violence both through their own narratives and through contemporary statistical and contextual data. The authors argue that women are situated knowers who articulate the impacts of overt and covert forms of gender-based subordination on the material conditions of their lives as well as on their sense of self and mental wellbeing. Recognising and identifying a problem, however, does not automatically equip us to eliminate that problem, especially when those problems have structural rather than personal roots
Rachel Jewkes
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199569298
- eISBN:
- 9780191594427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199569298.003.0009
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global problem, causing injury and mortality, as well a range of physical and mental health problems, including HIV infection, post-traumatic stress disorder, ...
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global problem, causing injury and mortality, as well a range of physical and mental health problems, including HIV infection, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, substance abuse, and miscarriage. This chapter evaluates interventions to reduce men's use of violence and shows how mixed-method approaches are necessary to understand the full impact of the intervention on gender-based violence.Less
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global problem, causing injury and mortality, as well a range of physical and mental health problems, including HIV infection, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, substance abuse, and miscarriage. This chapter evaluates interventions to reduce men's use of violence and shows how mixed-method approaches are necessary to understand the full impact of the intervention on gender-based violence.
Suzanne Franzway, Nicole Moulding, Sarah Wendt, Carole Zufferey, and Donna Chung
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447337782
- eISBN:
- 9781447337836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447337782.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter argues that sexual politics is present in all aspects of our lives, including gendered violence, the state, and citizenship. It adds that sexual politics opens up new possibilities for ...
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This chapter argues that sexual politics is present in all aspects of our lives, including gendered violence, the state, and citizenship. It adds that sexual politics opens up new possibilities for understanding the persistent effects of domestic violence by shifting attention to the politics of gender relations. This shift away from the binary category of gender as men/women to the active and relational dynamics of sexual politics undercuts assumptions that gendered violence is natural or inevitable, or that violence is only caused by individuals. Sexual politics has material and discursive effects and offers an understanding of how the gendered dynamics of domestic violence and its long-term consequences have remained largely hidden from view. This chapter argues that the persistence of violence against women is implicated in the sexual politics of citizenship and the state. Hence, the challenge of violence against women is recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship, and society.Less
This chapter argues that sexual politics is present in all aspects of our lives, including gendered violence, the state, and citizenship. It adds that sexual politics opens up new possibilities for understanding the persistent effects of domestic violence by shifting attention to the politics of gender relations. This shift away from the binary category of gender as men/women to the active and relational dynamics of sexual politics undercuts assumptions that gendered violence is natural or inevitable, or that violence is only caused by individuals. Sexual politics has material and discursive effects and offers an understanding of how the gendered dynamics of domestic violence and its long-term consequences have remained largely hidden from view. This chapter argues that the persistence of violence against women is implicated in the sexual politics of citizenship and the state. Hence, the challenge of violence against women is recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship, and society.
Suzanne Franzway, Nicole Moulding, Sarah Wendt, Carole Zufferey, and Donna Chung
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447337782
- eISBN:
- 9781447337836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447337782.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter is focused on the challenges of researching gendered violence. Here, the chapter presents the empirical foundation and design of a large-scale national study conducted across Australia; ...
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This chapter is focused on the challenges of researching gendered violence. Here, the chapter presents the empirical foundation and design of a large-scale national study conducted across Australia; which included a major survey, in-depth interviews, and constructed life histories. This chapter also considers some of the challenges faced when conducting and participating in gendered violence research in the context of the politics of ignorance and sexual politics. Given the risks that can flow from participating in and conducting research into gendered violence, it was particularly vital that the study was tightly conceptualised and methodologically sound, so that the benefits of participation by contributing to the development of new knowledge clearly outweighed any risks. The research study outlined here aimed to reveal the breadth and interconnected nature of the impact of intimate partner violence on women's citizenship as part of challenging wilful ignorance about violence and its relationship to gender inequality. As such, this research was an inherently political project that involved balancing a number of key considerations.Less
This chapter is focused on the challenges of researching gendered violence. Here, the chapter presents the empirical foundation and design of a large-scale national study conducted across Australia; which included a major survey, in-depth interviews, and constructed life histories. This chapter also considers some of the challenges faced when conducting and participating in gendered violence research in the context of the politics of ignorance and sexual politics. Given the risks that can flow from participating in and conducting research into gendered violence, it was particularly vital that the study was tightly conceptualised and methodologically sound, so that the benefits of participation by contributing to the development of new knowledge clearly outweighed any risks. The research study outlined here aimed to reveal the breadth and interconnected nature of the impact of intimate partner violence on women's citizenship as part of challenging wilful ignorance about violence and its relationship to gender inequality. As such, this research was an inherently political project that involved balancing a number of key considerations.
Pascha Bueno-Hansen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039423
- eISBN:
- 9780252097539
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039423.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines how the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (PTRC) reinforces a logic that upholds social hierarchies while also opening new spaces to consider a gender analysis. When ...
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This chapter examines how the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (PTRC) reinforces a logic that upholds social hierarchies while also opening new spaces to consider a gender analysis. When the PTRC began its investigation in August 2001, a gender analysis was not included. However, the commission was compelled to integrate the issue of gender into its investigation due to international pressure coupled with funding sources that required a gender component, as well as Peruvian women's and feminist movements' advocacy. This chapter analyzes the struggle for inclusion within the PTRC by focusing on the debate around the meaning of gender, its methodological operationalization, and incorporation into the final report. It shows how the push to document direct human rights violations against women led the PTRC to make a concerted effort to include a gender analysis and to address gender-based violence, specifically sexual violence.Less
This chapter examines how the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (PTRC) reinforces a logic that upholds social hierarchies while also opening new spaces to consider a gender analysis. When the PTRC began its investigation in August 2001, a gender analysis was not included. However, the commission was compelled to integrate the issue of gender into its investigation due to international pressure coupled with funding sources that required a gender component, as well as Peruvian women's and feminist movements' advocacy. This chapter analyzes the struggle for inclusion within the PTRC by focusing on the debate around the meaning of gender, its methodological operationalization, and incorporation into the final report. It shows how the push to document direct human rights violations against women led the PTRC to make a concerted effort to include a gender analysis and to address gender-based violence, specifically sexual violence.
Arlette Gautier, Marie-Laure Déroff, Pierre-Guillaume Prigent, and Sophie Hellégouarch
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071820
- eISBN:
- 9780190071851
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071820.003.0009
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
Numerous cases of sexual harassment in French higher education institutions led to the creation in 2002 of a student association dedicated to anti-sexist action against sexual harassment in higher ...
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Numerous cases of sexual harassment in French higher education institutions led to the creation in 2002 of a student association dedicated to anti-sexist action against sexual harassment in higher education (Collectif de Lutte Anti-Sexiste Contre le Harcèlement Sexuel dans l’Enseignement Supérieur, also known as CLASCHES). More recently, the French minister for higher education introduced a policy requiring universities to take steps to eradicate sexual harassment and commissioned a survey of violence and gender relations in universities. Focusing on one of the universities where the survey was conducted, this chapter presents key findings from the survey and discusses the university’s responses. Although the university governing body set up a Victim Support Unit and organized activities annually to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, it has not used the survey to develop a specific policy but has, in fact, tried to obscure the results. Students criticize the university’s governing body’s discourses for blaming victims and making perpetrators invisible.Less
Numerous cases of sexual harassment in French higher education institutions led to the creation in 2002 of a student association dedicated to anti-sexist action against sexual harassment in higher education (Collectif de Lutte Anti-Sexiste Contre le Harcèlement Sexuel dans l’Enseignement Supérieur, also known as CLASCHES). More recently, the French minister for higher education introduced a policy requiring universities to take steps to eradicate sexual harassment and commissioned a survey of violence and gender relations in universities. Focusing on one of the universities where the survey was conducted, this chapter presents key findings from the survey and discusses the university’s responses. Although the university governing body set up a Victim Support Unit and organized activities annually to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, it has not used the survey to develop a specific policy but has, in fact, tried to obscure the results. Students criticize the university’s governing body’s discourses for blaming victims and making perpetrators invisible.
Naïma Hachad
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620221
- eISBN:
- 9781789623710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620221.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
In Chapter 2, I argue that, despite significant differences in their socioeconomic and ideological backgrounds, El Bouih and Oufkir offer two literary representations of gendered political violence ...
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In Chapter 2, I argue that, despite significant differences in their socioeconomic and ideological backgrounds, El Bouih and Oufkir offer two literary representations of gendered political violence that seek to ground their individual experiences within the collective history of violence against women in Morocco. Even though El Bouih’s Hadith Al Atama [Talk of Darkness] (2001) is in the form of a fragmented memoir that constantly shifts from first to third person narration and Oufkir’s La prisonnière [Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail] (1999) is a retrospective and linear narrative, both narrators recast themselves into feminists who speak for silenced women. Focusing on the commonalities in Oufkir and El Bouih’s testimonies not only allows us to uncover the tenets of a female-gendered Moroccan testimonial voice, but also addresses the politics of the narration, memorialization, and criticism of political violence in Morocco’s era of democratic transition.Less
In Chapter 2, I argue that, despite significant differences in their socioeconomic and ideological backgrounds, El Bouih and Oufkir offer two literary representations of gendered political violence that seek to ground their individual experiences within the collective history of violence against women in Morocco. Even though El Bouih’s Hadith Al Atama [Talk of Darkness] (2001) is in the form of a fragmented memoir that constantly shifts from first to third person narration and Oufkir’s La prisonnière [Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail] (1999) is a retrospective and linear narrative, both narrators recast themselves into feminists who speak for silenced women. Focusing on the commonalities in Oufkir and El Bouih’s testimonies not only allows us to uncover the tenets of a female-gendered Moroccan testimonial voice, but also addresses the politics of the narration, memorialization, and criticism of political violence in Morocco’s era of democratic transition.
Grace Kyungwon Hong
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816695263
- eISBN:
- 9781452952352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816695263.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The Introduction begins by looking at the meaning of the word “difference” in relation to Audre Lorde’s essay called “Learning from the 60s,” which demanded that everyone regardless of their race ...
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The Introduction begins by looking at the meaning of the word “difference” in relation to Audre Lorde’s essay called “Learning from the 60s,” which demanded that everyone regardless of their race take into account their own complicities with power over and against others. In this book “difference” references a cultural and epistemological practice that holds in suspension (without requiring resolution) contradictory, mutually exclusive, and negating impulses. “Difference” names an epistemological position, ontological condition, and political strategy that reckon with the shift in the technologies of power that one might as well call “neoliberal.” The Introduction goes on to look at how the term “neoliberal” has been used historically and how it is used in this book. It defines neoliberalism foremost as an epistemological structure of disavowal, a means of claiming that racial and gendered violence are things of the past. It does so by affirming certain modes of racialized, gendered, and sexualized life, particularly through invitation into reproductive respectability, so as to disavow its exacerbated production of premature death. The introduction concludes by explaining that the author takes inspiration from Lorde and bends toward the project of pursuing a complex liberation without any guarantee of a certain or knowable future.Less
The Introduction begins by looking at the meaning of the word “difference” in relation to Audre Lorde’s essay called “Learning from the 60s,” which demanded that everyone regardless of their race take into account their own complicities with power over and against others. In this book “difference” references a cultural and epistemological practice that holds in suspension (without requiring resolution) contradictory, mutually exclusive, and negating impulses. “Difference” names an epistemological position, ontological condition, and political strategy that reckon with the shift in the technologies of power that one might as well call “neoliberal.” The Introduction goes on to look at how the term “neoliberal” has been used historically and how it is used in this book. It defines neoliberalism foremost as an epistemological structure of disavowal, a means of claiming that racial and gendered violence are things of the past. It does so by affirming certain modes of racialized, gendered, and sexualized life, particularly through invitation into reproductive respectability, so as to disavow its exacerbated production of premature death. The introduction concludes by explaining that the author takes inspiration from Lorde and bends toward the project of pursuing a complex liberation without any guarantee of a certain or knowable future.
Traci C. West
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479849031
- eISBN:
- 9781479851737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479849031.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter presents the interdisciplinary framework of the book and its core argument linking issues of racism and religion--particularly heteropatriarchal Christianity--in the cultural support for ...
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This chapter presents the interdisciplinary framework of the book and its core argument linking issues of racism and religion--particularly heteropatriarchal Christianity--in the cultural support for gender violence. It argues that the conjoined presence of religion, anti-black racism, and sexual violence against women in American history of slavery and colonialism compels a similarly transnational exploration of inspiration from Africana activists and scholars to address U.S. gender violence. A methodological overview describes the book’s theoretical foundations in feminist and womanist studies, and how tools of ethnography, anthropology, and Christian theo-ethics inform the its unconventional narrative approach. The U.S.-based analysis features snapshots of the author’s encounters with leaders and their contexts, not a broad survey or comparison of gender violence in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil.Less
This chapter presents the interdisciplinary framework of the book and its core argument linking issues of racism and religion--particularly heteropatriarchal Christianity--in the cultural support for gender violence. It argues that the conjoined presence of religion, anti-black racism, and sexual violence against women in American history of slavery and colonialism compels a similarly transnational exploration of inspiration from Africana activists and scholars to address U.S. gender violence. A methodological overview describes the book’s theoretical foundations in feminist and womanist studies, and how tools of ethnography, anthropology, and Christian theo-ethics inform the its unconventional narrative approach. The U.S.-based analysis features snapshots of the author’s encounters with leaders and their contexts, not a broad survey or comparison of gender violence in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil.
Traci C. West
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479849031
- eISBN:
- 9781479851737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479849031.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter criticizes racial and religious assumptions in well-meaning responses to gender violence against black women in the United States, citing sexist Christian clergy betrayals of trust and ...
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This chapter criticizes racial and religious assumptions in well-meaning responses to gender violence against black women in the United States, citing sexist Christian clergy betrayals of trust and narrowly individualistic crisis intervention strategies. Those problematic cultural dynamics also resonate with broader trends in U.S. popular media. The chapter defines the book’s key terms “gender-based violence” and “intimate violence”. Then, with an emphasis on Christianity and rape, it introduces the historical role of West Africa in both the transatlantic slave trade and U.S.-African American slave ancestry. The discussion of West’s initial encounters in Accra Ghana with Muslim and Christian leaders who discuss antiviolence strategies within their religious communities brings to the fore challenges for U.S. audiences of transnational learning from black African activists on gender-based violence.Less
This chapter criticizes racial and religious assumptions in well-meaning responses to gender violence against black women in the United States, citing sexist Christian clergy betrayals of trust and narrowly individualistic crisis intervention strategies. Those problematic cultural dynamics also resonate with broader trends in U.S. popular media. The chapter defines the book’s key terms “gender-based violence” and “intimate violence”. Then, with an emphasis on Christianity and rape, it introduces the historical role of West Africa in both the transatlantic slave trade and U.S.-African American slave ancestry. The discussion of West’s initial encounters in Accra Ghana with Muslim and Christian leaders who discuss antiviolence strategies within their religious communities brings to the fore challenges for U.S. audiences of transnational learning from black African activists on gender-based violence.
Rosa Linda Fregoso
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520229976
- eISBN:
- 9780520937284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520229976.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter explores the competing and often overlapping narratives that have been used to interpret the murders of women. At the same time, these narratives expose the subject that is constructed ...
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This chapter explores the competing and often overlapping narratives that have been used to interpret the murders of women. At the same time, these narratives expose the subject that is constructed within each account. The chapter begins with a description of the killings and violence against women in Ciudad Juárez and the media attention it garnered. It looks at the state's responses to gender violence, which were negation and disaggregation, and other accounts of feminicide. It demonstrates how the discourse of globalism elides the many structures of oppression in the lives of women and provides an explanation for the killings. Cultural representations that have been informed by the discourse of globalism, transnational activism on the border, and a discussion of Señorita extraviada, a film by Lourdes Portillo about the feminicide in Ciudad Juárez, are included.Less
This chapter explores the competing and often overlapping narratives that have been used to interpret the murders of women. At the same time, these narratives expose the subject that is constructed within each account. The chapter begins with a description of the killings and violence against women in Ciudad Juárez and the media attention it garnered. It looks at the state's responses to gender violence, which were negation and disaggregation, and other accounts of feminicide. It demonstrates how the discourse of globalism elides the many structures of oppression in the lives of women and provides an explanation for the killings. Cultural representations that have been informed by the discourse of globalism, transnational activism on the border, and a discussion of Señorita extraviada, a film by Lourdes Portillo about the feminicide in Ciudad Juárez, are included.
Rosa Linda Fregoso
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520229976
- eISBN:
- 9780520937284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520229976.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter studies the issue of gender violence within Latin communities. It first looks at a certain chapter in American Encounters, a book about “the sociocultural confrontation between Mexicans ...
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This chapter studies the issue of gender violence within Latin communities. It first looks at a certain chapter in American Encounters, a book about “the sociocultural confrontation between Mexicans and Anglos in the United States, where it deals with the issue of Chicano masculinity.” Next, the chapter studies the policing of feminist public talk on intracommunity violence, which is based on the hierarchical ranking of oppression. The term “conspiracy of silence” and the early feminist intervention in the area of jurisprudence are discussed. The chapter concludes with a study of the film Paulina, which is the first film that was made in the U.S. that represents the issue of sexual violence from an intersectional perspective.Less
This chapter studies the issue of gender violence within Latin communities. It first looks at a certain chapter in American Encounters, a book about “the sociocultural confrontation between Mexicans and Anglos in the United States, where it deals with the issue of Chicano masculinity.” Next, the chapter studies the policing of feminist public talk on intracommunity violence, which is based on the hierarchical ranking of oppression. The term “conspiracy of silence” and the early feminist intervention in the area of jurisprudence are discussed. The chapter concludes with a study of the film Paulina, which is the first film that was made in the U.S. that represents the issue of sexual violence from an intersectional perspective.
Meghana Nayak
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199397624
- eISBN:
- 9780199397648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199397624.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical framework, methodology, and plan of the book in order to situate gender-based asylum in the context of global power relations. The chapter ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical framework, methodology, and plan of the book in order to situate gender-based asylum in the context of global power relations. The chapter examines how a feminist international relations framework elucidates the distinctions between types of gender violence, between how “good” and “bad” non-citizens are constructed, and between “better” and “worse” countries in global politics. These distinctions operate when the United States negotiates the tension between immigration restriction and human rights obligations to protect refugees and determines who is “worthy” of receiving a grant of asylum. Finally, the chapter introduces the three worthy victim frames: autonomous; innocent; non-deviant.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical framework, methodology, and plan of the book in order to situate gender-based asylum in the context of global power relations. The chapter examines how a feminist international relations framework elucidates the distinctions between types of gender violence, between how “good” and “bad” non-citizens are constructed, and between “better” and “worse” countries in global politics. These distinctions operate when the United States negotiates the tension between immigration restriction and human rights obligations to protect refugees and determines who is “worthy” of receiving a grant of asylum. Finally, the chapter introduces the three worthy victim frames: autonomous; innocent; non-deviant.
