Global perspectives on violence against women and girls / Tamsin Bradley.

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Published: London : Zed Books, [2020]
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Half Title -- About the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Setting the global context -- Review of common approaches -- The importance of a gendered lens -- Women's economic empowerment -- Structure of the volume -- Chapter 1: Social norms, positive deviancy and cultural capital -- Introduction -- Social norm change, positive deviancy and cultural capital in the context of VAWG -- Women fighting violence in Nepal -- Women fighting violence in rural Rajasthan, India -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Measuring attitudes around harmful cultural practices: the continuum approach -- Introduction -- Measuring change: introducing the continuum -- Overview of FGM in the UK -- Applying the continuum: attitudes towards FGM in Portsmouth and Southampton, UK -- Digging deeper into different viewpoints -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The intersections of gender, religion, culture, sexuality and violence -- Introduction -- Cultural relativism as a critical lens -- The links between religion and FGM -- The links between sexuality and FGM -- Challenging Western hegemony -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Women, work and violence in Nepal: experiences from the construction sector -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Data analysis -- Interview findings -- The role of autonomous women's networks and organisations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Applying the intersectional lens: the experiences of professional middle-class women in Nepal and Pakistan -- Introduction -- Different work contexts: comparing Nepal and Pakistan -- Key themes emerging from the data -- Female entrepreneurs in Lahore and Islamabad -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The experiences of home-based workers in Pakistan -- Introduction -- Reviewing the country context -- Work and living conditions of home-based workers -- Details of HomeNet Pakistan -- Findings -- Women's experiences of violence -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The global drive to end female genital mutilation: is an end in sight? -- Introduction -- What do we know about why FGM happens? -- The importance of understanding context -- The medicalisation of FGM -- FGM in Sudan -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Violence against women and girls in conflict settings -- Introduction -- Review of research on VAWG in conflict settings -- The context of South Sudan -- Digging deeper into the normalisation of VAWG in South Sudan -- Access to justice in South Sudan in the context of VAWG -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Embedding a violence against women lens in development -- Introduction -- What does a VAWG mainstreaming tool look like? -- Applying the model to the lives of womenin refugee contexts -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: towards a more nuanced theory of change -- Notes -- References -- Index 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a A political-economy analysis into the ecology of violence violence against women and girls, combining various qualitative research techniques including in-depth interviewing, life histories and ethnography. 
650 0 |a Women  |x Crimes against. 
650 0 |a Girls  |x Crimes against. 
650 0 |a Abused women. 
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