International responses to gendered-based domestic violence : gender-specific and socio-cultural approaches /
edited by Dongling Zhang and Diana Scharff Peterson.
- xxiv, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
- Advances in police theory and practice series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : an interfaces approach to the global problems of gender-based domestic violence / Dongling Zhang and Diana Peterson The myth of the universal women : the (white) feminist fantasy and the invisibility of violence against women of color / Roksana Badruddoja Paradigm shift in Latin American legislation over time : from domestic violence laws to comprehensive legislation on gender-based violence against women (1990-2020) / Nancy Madera Gender-based violence and femicide in Mexico : why is the law failing to protect Mexico's women? / Emily Acevedo Violence against women in Mexico City : a cry for change / Flor Avellaneda and Luis R. Torres Severe licking : calypso considers domestic violence / Alison Mc Letchie and Daina Nathaniel Gender-based violence in the English-speaking Caribbean : chronicling Guyana's progress / Aneesa A. Baboolal Intersectionality as a means to understanding violence against women in Belize / Kiesha Warren-Gordon The dangers of being a women in Nicaragua / Pamela Neumann Response to domestic violence : India / Arundhati Bhattacharyya Combating domestic violence and sexual and gender-based violence during conflict : the case of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh / Tonny Kirabira and Fiza Lee-Winter Malaysia responding to domestic violence : a corpus-assisted discourse analysis / Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail, Bahiyah Dato Haji Abd Hamid and Ruzy Suliza Hashim From private matter to public problem : relocating gender-based violence in China / Dongling Zhang Social taboos and legal constraints : the status of domestic violence in Kuwait / Alanoud AlSharekh and Nour AlMukhled "Mobilizing for punishment" : legal activism, women's NGOs and the grassroots in Lebanon / Sirin Knecht Domestic violence in Thailand : an in-depth examination of how culture and resource-seeking barriers impact victim safety / Tanya Grant Domestic violence in the Micronesian context : past and future challenges / Hiroaki Matsuura Domestic violence in Ethiopia : an overview / Fikresus Amahazion Between reality and expectations : tackling domestic violence in Egypt / Hiam Elgousi Domestic and sexual violence among university students in Ghana / Michelle L. Munro-Kramer, Lindsay M. Cannon, Eugene K.M. Darteh, Ruth Owusu-Antwi and Sarah D. Compton Domestic violence, human rights, and reform in Mauritania / Nabil Ouassini and Anwar Ouassini Responding to intimate partner violence against women in Spain : perpetrators' accounts as a new variable to the ecological approach model / Mostafa Boieblan Why domestic violence remains under-reported within migrant communities in Germany / Fiza Lee-Winter Ritualized experiences of pain : love and domestic violence among transgender women in Brazil / Thiago de Lima Oliveira and Verônica Alcântara Guerra Socio-legal responses to immigrant and refugee male batterers in the EU and MENA regions / Chuka Emezue
"This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and four distinct regions, the contributors to this volume shed light on the ways in which contextual particularities shape the practices and strategies of addressing the socio-cultural and legal problem of gender-based domestic violence in the countries or regions where they do research. Special attention is devoted to developing countries where there is lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered as a private matter. The authors of the chapters share a common goal of raising public awareness of the significance in nuanced local experiences of women and other individuals from gender and sexual minority groups facing gender-based violence. Furthermore, the authors attend, analytically, to the newly emerging, overlapping influences of COVID-19 and global warming. Their research findings acknowledge and provide a detailed account of how the two ecological and socio-economic crises can combine to produce economic devastation, disconnect victims from necessary social services and assistance, and create a large degree of panic and uncertainty. In addition, they intend to offer insights into next steps to not only adjust existing public policies, legislation, and social services to the ever-changing national and global contexts, but also to make new ones. The book is intended for a wide range of scholars (both professors and students) and practitioners in a large number of areas, including but not limited to criminal justice, criminology, law, human rights, social justice, social work, nursing, sociology, and political or public affairs"--