Inhalt: Research on gender and violence has been driven by political imperatives emanating from both feminists and the conservative right. Paternalistic concern about the proprietary protection and control of women's bodies has long goaded conservatives to regard illegitimate physical and sexual attacks on women as particularly heinous crimes. Since the 1960s, feminists have refueled public concern about physical and sexual assaults on women, but their stance rests on women's right to autonomous control over their bodies. These seemingly incompatible political agendas have jointly fixed on the woman's body as the object of concern, spawning voluminous research on violence against women. Broader questions have usually been bypassed about the ways in which gender has conditioned the practice of violence by and against women and men.
Schlagwörter:sexual harassment; sexual violence; sexuelle Belästigung; sexuelle Gewalt; female genital mutilation; sexual assault; family violence
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag