Applying anthropology to gender-based violence : global responses, local practices / edited by Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wies, Jennifer R., editor.

Haldane, Hillary J., editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Cross-cultural studies.

Violence.

Abused women.

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Women--Violence against--Cross-cultural studies.

Abused women--Cross-cultural studies.

Family violence--Cross-cultural studies.

Family violence.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, human services, and health fields by demonstrating how a focus on local issues and responses can better inform a collaborative global response to the problem of gender-based violence. With chapters covering Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, and Oceania, the volume illustrates the various ways scholars, practitioners, frontline workers, and policy makers can work together to end violence in their local communities. The chapters in this volume provide ample evidence that top-down responses to violence have been inadequate, and that solutions are available when the local historical, political, and social context is taken into consideration. Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence contains useful insights that, when combined with the efforts of other disciplines, offer solutions to the problem of gender-based violence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Return to the local : lessons for global change / Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane

Women, embodiment, and domestic violence in northern Vietnam / Lynn Kwiatkowski

Bureaucratic bindings : refugee resettlement and intimate partner abuse / Elizabeth Wirtz

Munted : rebuilding community after disaster / Hillary J. Haldane

Gender-based violence and the state in Guatemala's genocide and beyond / M. Gabriela Torres

Prostitution diversion programs and structural violence / Yasmina Katsulis

Sex trafficking of native peoples : history, race, and law / April D.J. Petillo

Pa manyen fanm nan konsa : understanding violence against women after Haiti's earthquake / Mark Schuller

Campus sexual violence policies and practices : a holistic and historical approach to research and practice / Jennifer R. Wies

"I'm a real father now!" : using applied anthropology to promote positive masculinities to reduce family violence in northern Uganda / Rebecka Lundgren and Kimberly Ashburn

Employing scholar-activist anthropology to counter gender-based intimate partner violence in Belize / Melissa Beske

Intimate partner violence, social change, and scholar-activism in coastal Ecuador / Karin Friederic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1498509037

9781498509039

OCLC:

907204945

Publisher Number:

99964655872