Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective

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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 230
Series: Introductions to Engaged Anthropology
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Series
Title page
Copyright
Preface
1: Introduction
Defining Gender Violence
Defining Violence
Defining Gender
Contemporary Conceptions of Gender Violence
Theorizing Gender Violence
Anthropological Perspectives on Gender Violence
Measuring Gender Violence
Conclusions
Questions for Further Discussion
Video Suggestions
2: Gender Violence and Social Movements
Naming and Framing the Problem
Histories of Social Movements against Gender Violence
Conclusions
Questions for Further Discussion
Video Suggestions
3: Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in Domestic Violence
Punishment
Safety
Reform
Controlling Gender Violence: A Case Study of Hilo, Hawai‘i
Changing Forms of Control
Conclusions
Questions for Further Discussion
Video Suggestions
4: Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation
The Human Rights Framework
Universal Human Rights and the Question of Culture
Trafficking in Women
Conclusions
Questions for Further Discussion
Video Suggestions
5: Poverty, Racism, and Migration
Poverty and Racism
Statistical Evidence
The Difficulty of Measuring Gender Violence
A Case Study of Hilo, Hawai’i
Migration and the Law in the USA
Vulnerability and Impunity: A Case Study of Ciudad Juárez
Conclusions
Questions for Further Discussion
Video Suggestions
6: Violent “Cultural” Practices in the Family
“Honor” Killings
Female Genital Cutting
The Debate over FGC
Grass-Roots Initiatives
Conclusions
Questions for Further Discussion
Video Suggestions
7: Women and Armed Conflict
War and Armed Conflict
Militarized Societies, Nationalism, and Motherhood
Ethnic Conflict and Sexualized Violence:The Carnage in Gujarat
Refugees and Violence
International Law and Rape as a Crime of War
Conclusions
8: Conclusions
Rethinking Gender
Rethinking Violence
An Anthropological Perspective on Gender Violence
Gender Violence and Inequality
References
Index

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