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Gender-Based Violence in the Global South : Ideologies, Resistances, Responses, and Transformations, Hardback Book

Gender-Based Violence in the Global South : Ideologies, Resistances, Responses, and Transformations Hardback

Edited by Ramona Biholar, Dacia L. Leslie

Part of the Routledge Explorations in Development Studies series

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This book amplifies the different voices and experiences of those facing gender-based violence (GBV) in the Global South.

It explores the localised ways in which marginalised individuals design modes of coping with and address GBV, including cultural interpretations, and artistic and faith-based expressions. The book examines GBV triggers, prevalence, and societal impacts while referring to community, national, and regional mobilisation to deal with the phenomenon in its various manifestations, including physical, psychological, political, domestic, and public violence.

It explores issues related to women’s negotiations with the patriarchal underpinnings of GBV; the role of the law and history in the perpetuation of GBV; the complementary role of culture and faith to legal protection against GBV, and access to justice for women and girls.

In doing so, the book exposes understandings and expressions of GBV, as well as methodologies and indigenous initiatives to prevent it through local viable solutions.

The book thus challenges the normalisation of GBV in the Global South. Providing concrete and culturally relevant suggestions for challenging ingrained models of gender understandings of violence in the Global South, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Development Studies, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Violence and Abuse Studies, Human Rights, Criminal Law, and Socio-Legal Studies.

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