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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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Masculinities, Gender, and Violence

2012
Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon that has drawn much attention from policymakers and activists. However, despite the increasing attention that is now paid to gender-based violence and the resources invested in trying to eliminate this phenomenon, statistics and data seem to indicate that these efforts are not having as great an impact as ...
Jane E. Freedman, Sarah Jacobson
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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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Violence, Politics, and Gender

2018
This article presents a conceptual orientation to the intersection of gender, politics, and violence. The first part of the article will introduce the subject by reviewing the primary conceptual framework and empirical knowledge on the topic to date and discussing the theoretical heritage of the concept.
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Gender, Technology and Violence

2017
Technological developments move at lightening pace and can bring with them new possibilities for social harm. This book brings together original empirical and theoretical work examining how digital technologies both create and sustain various forms of gendered violence and provide platforms for resistance and criminal justice intervention.
Segrave, Marie, Vitis, Laura
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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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Acceptability of violence, gender, and dating violence

2018
Several studies have reported what seems to be a counter-intuitive finding, that dating violence perpetration increases with relationship commitment. A variable closely associated with relationship commitment, jealousy, has also been related to dating violence perpetration.
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Gender-Based Violence

2007
Introduction 1: Tackling violence against women: a worldwide approach Ceri Hayes 2: Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women's liberty and security Kaori Izumi 3: No more killings! Women respond to femicides in Central America Marina Prieto-Carron, Marilyn Thomson, and Mandy Macdonald 4: Sexual violence during firewood ...
Geraldine Terry, Joanna Hoare
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Gender Violence: The Problem

2014
This chapter examines the problem (definitions, prevalence, and consequences) of gender violence. Long a significant cause of female morbidity and mortality, gender violence has increasingly become recognized as a human rights and public-health issue, especially within the last three decades.
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Cross-Gender Violence

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1997
R. E. Falcone, D. Vasquez
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