Women and Violence
Subtitle: Global Lives in Focus
By: edited by Kathleen Nadeau and Sangita Rayamajhi
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Women and Society around the World
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Santa Barbara
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9798216036883
Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups
Description: This important and timely reference work examines violence against women and gender-based discrimination around the world, providing a global perspective on why this kind of oppression is still occurring in the 21st century.  Within the past decade, the attention that has been paid to violence against women by international government organizations such as the United Nations and World Health Organization has grown. Yet silences around the violent treatment of women remains across the world, particularly in those countries where women's rights are not protected and statistics are not available.   Women and Violence encompasses a global perspective of the history, causes, and complex underpinnings of gender and violence from a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary perspective. Chapters focus on a specific world region, including North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Each chapter begins with a general discussion on its world region, then focuses on particular forms of violence against women in the more specific contexts of particular countries and in relation to the wider region. Readers will be able to make cross-cultural comparisons, learning how to view gender-based violence and women's advocacy against discrimination that is occurring around the world.
Table of contents: title: Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Kathleen Nadeau and Sangita Rayamajhi Chronology ONE United States and Canada Amber Deneen Gray and Kathleen Nadeau TWO Latin America and the Caribbean Kathleen Nadeau THREE Europe Chanvisna Sum and Kathleen Nadeau FOUR North Africa and the Middle East Kevin E. Grisham FIVE Sub-Saharan Africa Tiffany Fawn Jones SIX Central and East Asia Sangita Rayamajhi SEVEN South and Southeast Asia Sangita Rayamajhi and Kathleen Nadeau EIGHT Oceania Katherine Jakovich and Jeremy A. Murray Selected Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index