Description
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 4 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 a lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered 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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Lois A. Herman
Series Editor Preface
Dilip K. Das and Vicente Riccio
Introduction: An interfaces approach to the global problems of gender-based domestic violence
Dongling Zhang and Diana Peterson
Section One: North and South America
1. The myth of the universal woman: The (white) feminist fantasy and the invisibility of violence against women of color
Roksana Badruddoja
2. 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
3.Gender-based violence and femicide in Mexico: Why is the law failing to protect Mexico’s women?
Emily Acevedo
4. Violence against women in Mexico City: A cry for change
Flor Avellaneda and Luis R. Torres
5. Severe licking: Calypso considers domestic violence
Alison Mc Letchie and Daina Nathaniel
6. Gender-based violence in the English-speaking Caribbean: Chronicling Guyana’s progress
Aneesa A. Baboolal
7. Intersectionality as a means to understanding violence against women in Belize
Kiesha Warren-Gordon
8. The dangers of being a woman in Nicaragua
Pamela Neumann
Section Two: Asia and Oceania
9. Response to domestic violence: India
Arundhati Bhattacharyya
10. 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
11. Malaysia responding to domestic violence: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail, Bahiyah Dato Haji Abd Hamid and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
12. From private matter to public problem: Relocating gender-based violence in China
Dongling Zhang
13. Social taboos and legal constraints: The status of domestic violence in Kuwait
Alanoud AlSharekh and Nour AlMukhled
14. “Mobilizing for punishment”: Legal activism, women's NGOs, and the grassroots in Lebanon
Sirin Knecht
15. Domestic violence in Thailand: An in-depth examination of how culture and resource-seeking barriers impact victim safety
Tanya Grant
16. Domestic violence in Micronesian context: Past and future challenges
Hiroaki Matsuura
Section Three: Africa
17. Domestic violence in Ethiopia: An overview
Fikresus Amahazion
18. Between reality and expectations: Tackling domestic violence in Egypt
Hiam Elgousi
19. 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
20. Domestic violence, human rights, and reform in Mauritania
Nabil Ouassini and Anwar Ouassini
Section Four: Perpetrators and Victims (Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Migrant, and Refugee Populations)
21. Responding to intimate partner violence against women in Spain: Perpetrators’ accounts as a new variable to the ecological approach model
Mostafa Boieblan
22. Why domestic violence remains under-reported within migrant communities in Germany
Fiza Lee-Winter
23. Ritualized experiences of pain: Love and domestic violence among transgender women in Brazil
Thiago de Lima Oliveira and Veronica Alcantara Guerra
24. Socio-legal responses to immigrant and refugee male batterers in the EU and MENA regions
Chuka Emezue
