Violence in everyday life : power, gender and sexuality / Aliraza Javaid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Javaid, Aliraza, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Victims of violent crimes.

Sex crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2020.

Summary:

Examines how hegemonic masculinity is reproduced not only through violence against women, but violence in an LGBTQ+ context, as well as showing how violence is in turn fuelled by society's attitudes towards masculinity.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

About The Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

What Is to Come?

1: Contextualising and Understanding Masculinities and Sexualities

Historicising Gender and Sexuality: Where Do We Come From?

Exploring Multiple Masculinities in a World of Constant Change and Struggle

Multiplying Sexualities: Public Constraints of Heterosexuality

Final Remarks

Exploratory Questions and Inquiries

2: Unspeakable Acts: Sexual Violence Against Men and Women

Introduction.

The Extent and Scope of Sexual Violence Against Men and Women

Formations of Sexual Violence

The Criminal Justice System, Law, and Sexual Violence: Barriers to Recognition and Gender Equality

Media and Sexual Violence on a Global Level

3: Murder and Evil

Understanding Murder: Killing as the Most Heinous of All Violence

4: Homophobic Violence

Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and Homophobic Violence.

Policing and Responding to Homophobic Violence: Persistent Problems, Changing Practices

5: Love as Violence: Intimate Partner Violence

Violence in Heterosexual Relationships

Policing Violence in Heterosexual Relationships

Violence in Gay Relationships

Policing Violence in Gay Relationships

6: Transphobic Violence: The Fear of the 'Other'

Policing Transphobic Violence: Fearing and Loathing the 'Other'

Final Remarks.

Exploratory Questions and Inquiries

7: Global Violence

Sexual Violence and Murder

Homophobic Violence and Femicide

Trans Violence and Intimate Partner Violence

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Dowry Death

Violence in War, Conflict, and Genocide

Human Trafficking

Sexual Violence in the Workplace

Corporate Violence

School Violence

8: Secrets Untold: Tales of Violence

Father and Son: The Apple Falls Very Far from the Tree

The Odd One Out in the School Playground.

Speaking the Unspoken: Sexual Violence

'Gay Is the Devil': Homophobic Violence

'Paki': Racist Discursive and Symbolic Violence

'Shut the Fuck Up or I'll Fucking Kill You!'

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 18, 2020).

ISBN:

9781350223844

1350223840

9781786997258

1786997258

9781786997241

178699724X

OCLC:

1184041156