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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.
E L, Lombardi, R A, Wilchins, D, Priesing, D, Malouf   +3 more
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Gender Considerations in Violence

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2016
The role of gender in violence is poorly understood. Research has shown that gender has an important and, at times, distinct role in the prediction of violence. However, this gender disparity diminishes in the setting of mental illness. The risk assessment of violence in women is largely based on research in violent men.
Renee, Sorrentino, Susan Hatters, Friedman, Ryan, Hall   +2 more
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Gender and physical violence

Social Science & Medicine, 2004
This study examines incidents of physical violence in relation to the sex of both assault victim and attacker. A survey of all assault victims attending an urban accident and emergency department (AED) in Norway during a 2-year period was carried out.
Knut, Steen, Steinar, Hunskaar
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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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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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GENDERING VIOLENCE

Gender & Society, 2001
This article examines the construction of gender within men's accounts of domestic violence. Analyses of in-depth interviews conducted with 33 domestically violent heterosexual men indicate that these batterers used diverse strategies to present themselves as nonviolent, capable, and rational men.
KRISTIN L. ANDERSON, DEBRA UMBERSON
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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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Gender Violence

2022
A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title In often mundane but sometimes quite obvious ways, persons belonging to groups routinely threatened with harm on the basis of gender and sexuality suffer restrictions to choice and action, impairing autonomy.
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Gendered violences

Dialogues in Human Geography, 2016
In this short piece we identify some developments in recent scohlarship on gendered violence, as well as key issues highlighted in this collection of interventions. Rather than being the silent ‘elelphant in the room’, the spatial and power relations underlying myriad gendered violences need to become a mainstream concern within a wide range of ...
Katherine Brickell, Avril Maddrell
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Gender and Violence

Science, 2012
Researchers are probing links between the status of women in a society and its propensity toward war.
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