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Gender Agency and Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The question of gender and agency in the context of violence is a topic of much debate in feminist scholarship. The controversy lies in developing understanding how violence is gendered without reinforcing gender stereotypes about women as passive ...
Penttinen, Elina, Elina Penttinen
openaire   +3 more sources

The concept and the name of Isolating Gender Violence

open access: yesMultidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 2021
In December 2020, the Catalan Parliament approved by unanimity the world’s first legislation of the concept of Isolating Gender Violence (IGV); in 2021, several parliaments are developing their own legislations.
A. Vidu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fear to Retaliation: The Most Frequent Reason for Not Helping Victims of Gender Violence

open access: yesInternational and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences, 2021
When faced with situations of gender-based violence, one becomes exposed to risk in giving support to the victim (van Reemst, Fischer, & WC Zwirs, 2015, Hamby, Weber, Grych, & Banyard, 2016; Liebst, Heinskou & Ejbye-Ernst, 2018).
Patricia Melgar   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Human Trafficking: Results of a 5-Year Theory-Based Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent Trafficking of Women From South Asia

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Educational Interventions to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: A Systematic Review

open access: yesHealthcare, 2023
Background: Gender-based violence is a worldwide public health problem that is increasingly occurring at younger ages. This investigation aims to analyze effective interventions to prevent and to face gender-based violence beginning in early childhood in
L. Villardón-Gallego   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Violent Times Rising Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Gender Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...

core   +1 more source

Extreme events and gender-based violence: a mixed-methods systematic review

open access: yesLancet Planetary Health, 2022
Summary The intensity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events are expected to increase due to anthropogenic climate change. This systematic review explores extreme events and their effect on gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by women ...
K. V. van Daalen   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A qualitative study on gender inequality and gender-based violence in Nepal

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Gender inequality and violence are not mutually exclusive phenomena but complex loops affecting each other. Women in Nepal face several inequalities and violence.
Pranab Dahal, S. Joshi, K. Swahnberg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Water insecurity and gender‐based violence: A global review of the evidence

open access: yesWIREs Water, 2022
We reviewed the existing literature documenting the association between water insecurity and gender‐based violence to (1) describe the characteristics and contexts of available studies, and (2) identify and classify documented gender‐based violence ...
P. Tallman   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a politics of uncertainty: difficulties of naming the relationship between gender and violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article discusses how the relationship between gender and violence can be articulated, both in policy and theory, in order to unsettle the feminist orthodoxy that equates gender-based violence with violence against (heterosexual, white) women ...
Carbin, Maria,, Maria Carbin
core   +1 more source

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