Teaching against violence, reassessing the toolbox / edited by Ines Testoni [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Testoni, Ines, editor.

Series:

Teaching with gender ; 11.

Teaching with gender : European Women's studies in international and interdisciplinary classrooms, 2227-5010 ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Violence against--Prevention--Study and teaching--Europe.

Women.

Sex discrimination against women--Prevention--Study and teaching--Europe.

Sex discrimination against women.

Feminism and education.

Sex discrimination against women--Prevention.

Women--Violence against--Prevention.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Utrecht : ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation ; Budapest : Central European University Press, [2013]

Summary:

How to deal with gender, women, gender roles, feminism and gender equality in teaching practices? The ATHENA thematic network and ATGENDER being together specialists in women's and gender studies, feminist research, women's rights, gender equality and diversity, in the book series 'Teaching with Gender' the partners in this network have collected articles on a wide range of teaching practices in the field of gender. The books in this series address challenges and possibilities of teaching about women and gender in a wide range of educational contexts. The authors discuss pedagogical, theoretical and political dimensions of learning and teaching on women and gender. Many international organizations denounce that the systematic lockout of women from social and political power is responsible for the phenomenon of double/multiple discrimination, so that in every social category, the status of women is always the lowest. This severe Injustice is at the core of the situation of violence which still remains in the world today and poses a real challenge for our future. At the same time, It seems that women are still entangled in back-lash regressive environments which keep them in a state of backwardness. Notwithstanding the considerable efforts by European policies to reduce this gap, nothing seems to be able to decrease the persistent humiliation of women and their submission to traditional logic that keeps them strongly subordinate to men, thus making incompatible the dimensions de jure and de facto, in some areas of the Mediterranean and Southern Europe. Educational aspects are belived to be critical for the promotion of psychosocial change. This volume, which is the result of an important European Daphne project (Empower) involving many European Countries, is edited by Ines Testoni, Michael Wieser, Angelika Groterath and Maria Silvia Guglielmin who believe that this situation of injustice is the result of a substantial lack of education about gender equality. The volume presents some active techniques that were adopted during the interventions to promote women's empowerment, and in particular we discuss the results obtained to test their effectiveness. The mission of this volume was to collect the contributions of academics and researchers who face this issue from various perspectives, to present the state of the art research in multiple fields of study and to suggest some educational best practices that can be used where this problem is particularly severe. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword : gender education as a first-line tool to fight violence against women

About the legislation against domestic violence in Europe and Italy

The activism of black feminist theory in confronting violence against women : interconnections, politics and practice

"Brothers for life" : a campaign addressing gender based violence on (de/re)constructing masculinities in South Africa, "Yenza Kahle!"-Do the right thing!

Gender, deviance and institutional violence in Ireland's Magdalene Laundris : an analysis of two filmic representations of abuse

Gender and domestic violence in Portugal : intervention practices an their effects

The effectiveness of the EMPoWER Project and interventions : psychodrama and the elaboration of domestic violence in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, and Albania

"Overcoming female subordination" : an experimental process of empowerment-through sociodrama and digital storytelling-directed toward a group of Italian female undergraduates.

Notes:

"A book series by ATGENDER"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786155225932

6155225931

OCLC:

863196677