As the movement to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) gains momentum around the world, this provocative new work applies an innovative theoretical lens to gendered violence across a wide variety of countries and contexts.
Global Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls engages with VAWG in the UK and across the global South, including case studies from India, Pakistan and South Sudan. Considering various forms of violence including harmful cultural practices such as FGM to Early Child Marriage, dowry and bride price related harassment, stranger rape, work-based harassment, Intimate Partner Violence and other forms of domestic violence, this important volume creates an original critical lens by combining the ecology model, the intersectional approach and a spectrum designed to identify the range of different forms of VAWG in a given context. Arguing for a greater understanding of the local political and cultural contexts in which VAWG is allowed to flourish, Global Perspectives on Violence against Women and Girls is one of the few works to give due prominence to local women's organizations in the global South and beyond, who it argues must ultimately play the leading role in ending VAWG.
At a time when the fight against violent misogyny finds itself at a critical turning point, this volume makes a substantial and timely contribution towards the ultimate goal of ending VAWG.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- About the author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Social norms, positive deviancy and cultural capital
- Chapter 2: Measuring attitudes around harmful cultural practices: the continuum approach
- Chapter 3: The intersections of gender, religion, culture, sexuality and violence
- Chapter 4: Women, work and violence in Nepal: experiences from the construction sector
- Chapter 5: Applying the intersectional lens: the experiences of professional middle-class women in Nepal and Pakistan
- Chapter 6: The experiences of home-based workers in Pakistan
- Chapter 7: The global drive to end female genital mutilation: is an end in sight?
- Chapter 8: Violence against women and girls in conflict settings
- Chapter 9: Embedding a violence against women lens in development
- Conclusion: towards a more nuanced theory of change
- Notes
- References
- Index
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