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Gender Violence (gender + violence)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences83%

Selected Abstracts

The Politics of Gender Violence: Law Reform in Local and Global Places

LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 4 2003
Mindie Lazarus-Black
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Commentary on Reviews of Human Rights and Gender Violence

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2008
SALLY ENGLE MERRY
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Spatial Govemmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through Law

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2001
Sally Engle Merry
The new urban social order depends on a complex combination of systems of punishment, discipline, and security. Scholars drawing on Foucault's analysis of the art and rationality of governance, or govemmentality, have explored how urban social orders are increasingly based on the governance of space rather than on the discipline of offenders or the punishment of offenses. The new urban social order is characterized by privatized security systems and consumer-policed spaces such as malls. Gender violence interventions represent another deployment of spatial forms of govemmentality. Over the last two decades, punishment of batterers has been augmented by disciplinary systems that teach batterers new forms of masculinity and by security systems for women based on spatial separation. In the postmodern city, spatial govemmentality is integrally connected with punishment and discipline. These new forms of governance circulate globally along with neoliberal ideas of the diminished state, [gender violence, govemmentality, urban society, globalization, law] [source]

Mobility, Violence and the Gendering of HIV in Papua New Guinea

THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2008
Katherine Lepani
The links between gender, sexuality and violence hold serious implications for HIV transmission and its social and economic effects. In Papua New Guinea, enduring and pervasive patterns of male sexual behaviour involving coercion, violence and gang rape are highly conducive to the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and have a critical bearing on women's sexual autonomy and health. The realities of violence are intensified by the widespread view that women are responsible for the spread of the virus. This paper engages the theme of mobility to consider the fluid and dynamic character of gender relations and sexuality in contemporary Papua New Guinea, and to gain perspective on constructions of modern masculinity and the discursive representations of gender violence in the context of the escalating HIV epidemic. [source]

Child abuse in South Africa: rights and wrongs

CHILD ABUSE REVIEW, Issue 2 2008
Linda M. Richter
Abstract In a country in which human rights feature prominently in our discourse about who we are, as well as in the South African constitutional and legal framework, so many wrongs continue to be done to children. One category of wrongs is abuse, but it is not the only one. Poverty, patriarchy and gender violence, as well as the socialised obedience, dependency and silence of women and children, create conditions in which abuse can occur, often with few consequences. South Africa has extremely high rates of both physical and sexual abuse of children. Progressive, rights-based legislation exists to protect children, but it is not adequately supported or resourced by services to fulfil their provisions. Child abuse and neglect will not be significantly reduced in South Africa, without simultaneous improvements in the social and economic conditions in which very large numbers of children live. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]