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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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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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Gender, violence, refugees

The African Review, 2018
experiences but also did not pointed out the circumstances that pushed women to become international migrants, using among other trafficking channels or to seek refugee resettlement.
Anupama Sharan
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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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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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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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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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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 International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2018
PROFESSOR BIOGRAPHY Professor Parson, a full-time faculty member in the Department of Anthropology, developed and has taught this course multiple times, and students have reviewed the course highly.
Margaret Jolly
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