Gender-Based Violence

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Author(s)
Terry, Geraldine
Publication date
2007-09-30
Subject
Gender
Keywords
Gender-based violence

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Practical Action Publishing
Series
Working in Gender and Development
Document type
Book
Description
This book brings together some of the most interesting and innovative work being done to tackle gender-based violence in various sectors, world regions, and socio-political contexts. Articles cover a wide range of manifestations of gender-based violence, including femicide, or the murder of women because they are women, domestic and sexual violence, female genital mutilation or cutting, the sexual exploitation of girls at school, and trafficking for prostitution. The case studies are drawn from South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America, and a detailed list of resources completes the volume. This collection of articles will be useful to development and humanitarian practitioners, policy makers, and academics, including both gender specialists and non-gender specialists alike. Working in Gender & Development series bring together themed selections of the best articles from the Oxfam journal Gender & Development, supplemented with specially commissioned articles and material drawn from other Oxfam publications. Each title is edited by a key thinker in the field, and includes an up-to-the-minute overview of current thinking and thoughts on future policy responses.
Table of contents
Introduction; 1: Tackling violence against women: a worldwide approach, Ceri Hayes; 2: Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women's liberty and security, Kaori Izumi; 3: No more killings! Women respond to femicides in Central America, Marina Prieto-Carron, Marilyn Thomson, and Mandy Macdonald; 4: Sexual violence during firewood collection: income-generation as protection in displaced settings, Sarah K. Chynoweth with Erin M. Patrick; 5: Negotiating violence and non-violence in Cambodian marriages, Rebecca Surtees; 6: Social policy from the bottom up: abandoning FGC in sub-Saharan Africa, Peter Easton, Karen Monkman, and Rebecca Miles; 7: Constructing an alternative masculine identity: the experience of the Centro Bartolome de las Casas and Oxfam America in El Salvador, Susan Bird, Rutilio Delgado, Larry Madrigal, John Bayron Ochoa, and Walberto Tejeda; 8: "We Can": transforming power in relationships in South Asia, Mona Mehta and Chitra Gopalakrishnan; 9: Gender violence in schools: taking "the girls-as-victims" discourse forward, Fiona Leach and Sara Humphreys; 10: Gender-based violence in and around schools in conflict and humanitarian contexts, Jackie Kirk; 11: Reducing poverty and upholding human rights: a pragmatic approach, Meena Poudel and Ines Smyth; 12: A tale of two cities: shifting the paradigm of anti-trafficking programmes; Smarajit Jana, Nandinee Bandyopadhyay, Mrinal Kanti Dutta, and Amitrajit Saha
Pages
160
ISBN
978-0-85598-602-5
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/115394
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/gender-based-violence-115394
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