Feminist mobilisation for policy change on violence against women: insights from Asia
Editor(s)
Sweetman, CarolinePublication date
2016-07-20Subject
GenderKeywords
Gender-based violenceLegal reform
Women's movements
Policy space
Violence Against Women and Girls
VAWG
Gender and Development Journal
GaD
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Gender & DevelopmentDocument type
Journal articleLanguage
EnglishDescription
This article explores how women’s movements in China, India, and Indonesia have mobilised to influence processes of legal reform on violence against women and girls (VAWG). Legal change is a complex and iterative process, in which both state and non-state actors negotiate and bargain over the content of law in the ‘policy space’, bringing different interests and needs to bear. The three countries featured here differ in many ways, including population size, political system (including varying levels and degrees of democratisation and decentralisation, and regional and local autonomy), and diversity in the population, including ethnicities and religions. A comparative study such as this offers important potential for understanding policy change on VAWG, the role of women’s movements in this, and the obstacles to change. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the <a href="http://www.genderanddevelopment.org">Gender and Development</a> website.Pages
13ISSN
1355-2074EISSN
1364-9221ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/13552074.2016.1194035