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Gender Agency and Violence [PDF]

, 2018
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Penttinen, Elina, Elina Penttinen
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Gendered Language and Gendered Violence

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross-section of countries. Motivated by this evidence, we conduct an individual-level analysis exploiting the differences in the
Lewis Davis, Astghik Mavisakalyan, Clas Weber   +2 more
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Human Trafficking: Results of a 5-Year Theory-Based Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent Trafficking of Women From South Asia

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Preventing modern slavery is of global interest, but evidence on interventions remains weak. This paper presents findings from a 5-year theory-based evaluation of an empowerment and knowledge-building intervention to prevent the exploitation of South ...
Cathy Zimmerman, Joelle Mak, Nicola S. Pocock, Nicola S. Pocock, Ligia Kiss, Ligia Kiss   +5 more
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Violent Times Rising Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Gender Perspective [PDF]

, 2022
Violence is a persistent element of modern history and it always has been gendered. Today’s violent times have politicized and mobilized new publics, generated creative forms of resistance, incited the most unlikely coalitions, and emboldened to live ...

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Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health concern. While community-level gender norms and attitudes to IPV are recognised drivers of IPV risk, there is little evidence on how interventions might tackle these ...
Tanya Abramsky, Karen M. Devries, Lori Michau, Janet Nakuti, Tina Musuya, Ligia Kiss, Nambusi Kyegombe, Charlotte Watts   +7 more
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The role of mental health in primary prevention of sexual and gender-based violence [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
In this short communication, we assert that mental health has a crucial role in the primary prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). However, we found that most research and practice to date has focused on the role of mental health post ...
Aník Gevers, Elizabeth Dartnall
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Secondary distress in violence researchers: a randomised trial of the effectiveness of group debriefings

BMC Psychiatry, 2017
Background Secondary distress including emotional distress, vicarious trauma (VT) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) due to exposure to primary trauma victims have been described in helping professionals and in violence researchers.
Heidi Grundlingh, Louise Knight, Dipak Naker, Karen Devries   +3 more
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Association between intimate partner violence and nutritional status of married Nepalese women

Global Health Research and Policy, 2022
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is physical, sexual, or psychological harm perpetrated by a spouse or an intimate partner. Its detrimental effects on women’s physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health are well-documented.
Arun Chaudhary, Janet Nakarmi, Annekathryn Goodman   +2 more
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Ntombi Vimbela! Sexual violence risk reduction intervention: pre and one-year post assessments from a single arm pilot feasibility study among female students in South Africa

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The extremely high prevalence of sexual violence victimisation reported among female students in South African public higher education demands urgent action to develop, rigorously evaluate and scale effective prevention interventions.
Mercilene Tanyaradzwa Machisa, Pinky Mahlangu, Esnat Chirwa, Ncediswa Nunze, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Elizabeth Dartnall, Managa Pillay, Rachel Jewkes   +7 more
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Intersections between disability, masculinities, and violence: experiences and insights from men with physical disabilities from three African countries

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Gender-transformative work in the Global South often focuses on transforming ‘toxic masculinities’ to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV), but there has been little research on whether and how constructions of masculinities by men with ...
Yandisa Sikweyiya, Erin Stern, Jill Hanass-Hancock, Ingrid van der Heijden, Henri Myrttinen, Adolphina Addoley Addo-Lartey, Kristin Dunkle   +6 more
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