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Do Women Pay a Higher Price for Power? Gender Bias in Political Violence in Sweden

Journal of Politics, 2020
Violence and intimidation against politicians is gaining attention in research on obstacles to political gender equality, but we still do not know whether women experience more violence as politicians than men.
Sandra Håkansson
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Gender Violence

Journal of Homosexuality, 2002
There is a pervasive pattern of discrimination and prejudice against transgendered people within society. Both economic discrimination and experiencing violence could be the result of a larger social climate that severely sanctions people for not conforming to society's norms concerning gender; as such, both would be strongly associated with each other.
Dana Priesing, Riki Anne Wilchins, Emilia Lombardi, Diana Malouf   +3 more
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Gender-based violence

The Lancet, 2005
On Nov 14 2004 the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) announced grant awards to 17 groups in developing countries for projects to address gender-based violence in conflict and postconflict situations. Totalling US $900000 the grants will fund projects that include: a training programme for community leaders in the Democratic Republic of
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Mental Disorder, Violence, and Gender.

Law and Human Behavior, 2003
Recent studies have reported comparable rates of violence among men and women with mental disorder, raising important issues for clinical risk assessment. This study examines the relationship between gender and violence using data from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.
Pamela Clark Robbins, John Monahan, Eric Silver   +2 more
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Gendered violence and the self

2018
This chapter is devoted to questions about why intimate partner violence is understood in terms of its psychological impact on individual women. It suggests alternative ways that the serious psychological and emotional impact of intimate partner violence might be understood and addressed so that policy and practice may be more beneficial. The notion of
Suzanne Franzway, Nicole Moulding, Sarah Wendt, Carole Zufferey, Donna Chung   +4 more
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Gender-based violence

Emergency Nurse, 2011
Researchers in Australia have studied the mental health associations of intimate partner violence, rape, other forms of sexual assault, and stalking in which women are victims.
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The tie that binds: race, gender and US violence

Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2019
This article uses African-American women's experiences with violence as a particular lens to explore the relationships among (1) social constructions of violence; (2) how violence operates to link power relations of race and gender; and (3) potential ...
P. Collins
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The Violence of Gender Discrimination

2018
This chapter reviews the doctrinal and historical controversy surrounding the ordination of women in Buddhist traditions. In the contemporary period, Theravāda female monastic orders have attempted to create a female monastic order (bhikkhunī order) in Thailand. The Thai government and its monks have rejected such efforts.
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Domestic Violence in Black and White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes in Gender Violence

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1998
The media attention given to the criminal and civil trials of Orenthal James Simpson has focused the attention of mainstream society on the issues surrounding domestic violence. Unfortunately, instead of prompting greater awareness of the magnitude of the issues, the media and the actors in the legal proceedings manipulated stereotypes and obscured the
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Silence, Violence and Gendered Resistance

2020
This paper takes its starting point in two interrelated conflicts: the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during WWII (1942–1945) and the Indonesian war of independence from Dutch colonial rule (1945–1949). Successive Dutch and Indonesian governments have denied responsibility for human rights abuses and the historical injustices that took place in ...
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