Inhalt: This book takes religion as an entry point for a deeper exploration into why practices of gender-based violence continue and what possible actions might help to contribute to their eradication.
International donors are committed to reducing and ending gender-related harm, particularly violence against women, but clear answers as to why harmful practices persist are often slow to emerge. Theological research struggles to find strong links, yet religion is often referred to by local people as the reason for practices such as female cutting, male circumcision, early and forced marriage, nutritional taboos and birth practices, mandatory (un)veiling, harmful spiritual practices, polygamy, gender unequal marital and inheritance rights and so-called honour crimes. This book presents empirical cases of religious, non-religious and secular actors, including local and international governmental and non-governmental agencies in the fields of development, health and equality policies. Tracing their different understandings of how religion is entangled with gender-based violence both contextually as well as historically, the book sheds light on helpful and unhelpful as well as erroneous and harmful understandings of such practices in local and global perspectives.
Centralising the perspectives of women themselves, this book will be an important read for development practitioners and policy makers, as well as for researchers across religious studies, gender studies, and global development.
Schlagwörter:gender-based violence; geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt; Gewalt gegen Frauen; Religion; violence against women
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
The gender-sensitive university : A contradiction in terms?
Autor/in:
Drew, Eileen; Canavan, Siobhán
Quelle: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge research in gender and society), 2021. 189 S
Inhalt: "The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemporary academia back from the brink. New forms of leadership are fundamental to reforming our institutions. The concept of a gender-sensitive university requires re-envisioning academia to meet these challenges, as does a different engagement of men and a shift towards fluidity in how gender is formulated and performed. Academia can only be truly gender-sensitive if, learning from the past, it can avoid repeating the same mistakes and addressing existing and new biases. The book chapters analyse these challenges and advocate the possibilities to 'fix it forward' in all areas. Representing ten EU countries and multiple disciplines, contributors to this volume highlight the evidence of persistent gender inequalities in academia, while advocating a blueprint for addressing them. The book will be of interest to a global readership of students, academics, researchers, practitioners, academic and political leaders and policy makers who share an interest in what it takes to establish gender-sensitive universities"--
Prevention of violence against women and girls : Mainstreaming in development programmes
Herausgeber/in:
Bradley, Tamsin; Gruber, Janet
Quelle: London: Routledge, 2021.
Inhalt: „Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls argues that women and girls are vulnerable across all areas of society, and that therefore a commitment to end violence against women and girls needs to be embedded into all development programmes, regardless of sectorial focus. This book presents an innovative framework for sensitisation and action across development programmes, based on emerging best practices and lessons learnt, and illustrated through a number of country contexts and a range of programmes. Overall, it argues that SDG 5 can only be achieved with a systematic model for mainstreaming an end to violence against women and girls, no matter what the priorities of the particular development programme might be. Demonstrating how the approach can be applied across contexts, the authors explore cases from the energy sector, health and humanitarian intervention, and from countries as varied as South Sudan, Myanmar, Rwanda, Nepal, and Kenya. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience working on gender, health, and violence against women programmes as both practitioners and academics, the authors present key lessons which can be used by students, researchers, and practitioners alike.“
Schlagwörter:development programm; gender based violence; humanitarian intervention
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gender and political violence : Women changing the politics of terrorism
Herausgeber/in:
Ortbals, Candice D.; Poloni-Staudinger, Lori
Inhalt: This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism. Political violence has historically been viewed as a male domain with men considered the perpetrators of violence and power, and women as victims without power. Whereas men and masculinity are associated with war and aggression, women and femininity conjure up socially constructed images of passivity and peace. This distinction of men as aggressors and women as passive victims denies women their voice and agency. This book investigates how women cope with and influence violent politics, and is both a descriptive and analytical attempt to describe in what ways women are present or absent in political contexts involving political violence, and how they deal with gender assumptions, express gender identities, and frame their actions regarding political violence encountered in their lives. The book looks to reach beyond the notion of women as victims of terrorism or genocide without agency, and to recognize the gendered nature of political conflicts and how women respond to violence. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, academics in terrorism studies and gender studies, government officials, NGOs, and professionals working in areas of violent conflict.
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterrollen; Terrorismus
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gender policies in the European Union
Titelübersetzung:Geschlechterpolitik in der Europäischen Union
Autor/in:
Rossilli, Mariagrazia
Quelle: New York: P. Lang (Studies in European Union, Vol. 1), 2000. IX, 261 S.
Inhalt: An interdisciplinary group of European feminist scholars critically explores the European gender policies from the founding of the European Community to the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam. They offer different interpretations of the contradiction between the exceptional development of gender equality policy within Community social policy and actual gender inequality. Analysis of the EU policies on the equality of women reveals their central role in the making of the common market and the Community’s modernizing action to reform employment patterns and welfare systems. From different, and at times contrasting, feminist perspectives, the contributors propose new policies to challenge the current situation and overcome the EU juridical defect in women’s rights, which exacerbates the European «citizenship deficit» and «democratic deficit».
Table of contents: Mariagrazia Rossilli: Introduction: The European Union's Gender Policies (1-23); Ilona Ostner: From Equal Pay to Equal Employability: Four Decades of European Gender Policies (25-42); Catherine Hoskyns: A Study of Four Action Programmes on Equal Opportunities (43-58); Eliane Vogel-Polsky: Parity Democracy-Law and Europe (61-84); Joni Lovenduski: Chance in Women's Political Representation (87-104); Julia Adiba Sohrab: European Equality Legislation on Social Security (107-121); Francesca Bettio, Jill Rubery, and Mark Smith: Gender, Flexibility, and New Employment Relations in the European Union (123-157); Myriam Bergamaschi: The Gender Perspective in the Policies of European Trade Unions (159-172); Jean Gregory: Sexual Harassment: The Impact of EU Law in the Member States (175-191); Elenore Kofman and Rosemary Sales: The Implications of European Union Policies for Non-EU Migrant Women (193-207); Marjan Wijers: European Union Policies on Trafficking in Women (209-229).
Quelle: Internationale Konferenz "Women's Studies im internationalen Vergleich"; Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verl.-Ges. (Aktuelle Frauenforschung, Bd. 27), 1994. 240 S.
Inhalt: "Das Sammelwerk enthält folgende Einzelbeiträge: 1) Women's Studies in the United States: its history, present status, and future prospects. 2) Einschließende Ausschließung? Zur Entwicklung und Institutionalisierung von Women's Studies in Europa. 3) Frauenstudien in der BRD - Ein Überblick. 4) Sozialer Wandel, Frauenbewegung, Wissenschaftsperspektiven und Frauenstudien. 5) Is there life after Women's Studies? 6) Women's Studies und Prinzipien feministischer Pädagogik - Methodik und Inhalt. 7) Curriculum transformation. The impact of Women's Studies on the academic disciplines. 8) Das Frauenstudien-Programm in Groningen. 9) Studienschwerpunkt "Frauen und Wirtschaft" an der Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft in Berlin. 10) Frauenstudien - Falle oder Chance? Erfahrungen des Frauenstudiengangs am Oberstufenkolleg in Bielefeld. 11) Chancen und Grenzen der Qualifizierung für eine emanzipatorische Frauenarbeit. 12) Institutionalisierung von Frauenforschung und Frauenstudien in der Bundesrepublik am Beispiel des Graduiertenkollegs "Geschlechterverhältnis und sozialer Wandel". 13) Frauenforschung und Frauenstudien im Konzept des Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung an der Humboldt Universität. 14) Frauenpolitik in den USA, Schweden und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 15) Arbeits- und Lebenssituation von Frauen in leitenden Positionen in (West)- Deutschland und Schweden. 16) Women doctors and lawyers: personal, ethical, and economic dilemmas facing American working women in the 90's. 17) Frauenarbeit in den Niederlanden. 18) Affirmative action and administrative networks for women. 19) Language theory and curriculum revision. 19) Shakespeare's sisters: Women's Studies and English literature. 20) Ost-West-Widersprüche als Problem kultureller Reflexion in Texten schreibender Frauen. 21) The evolution of the issue of sexual harassment in the United States. 22) Sexuelle Diskriminierung und Gewalt gegen Frauen an der Freien Universität Berlin.