This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and 4 distinct regions, the contributors to this volume shed light on the ways in which contextual particularities shape the practices and strategies of addressing the socio-cultural and legal problem of gender-based domestic violence in the countries or regions where they do research. Special attention is devoted to developing countries where there is a lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered a private matter. The authors of the chapters share a common goal of raising public awareness of the significance in nuanced local experiences of women and other individuals from gender and sexual minority groups facing gender-based violence.
Furthermore, the authors attend, analytically, to the newly emerging, overlapping influences of COVID-19 and global warming. Their research findings acknowledge and provide a detailed account of how the two ecological and socio-economic crises can combine to produce economic devastation, disconnect victims from necessary social services and assistance, and create a large degree of panic and uncertainty. In addition, they intend to offer insights into next steps to not only adjust existing public policies, legislation, and social services to the ever-changing national and global contexts, but also to make new ones.
The book is intended for a wide range of scholars (both professors and students) and practitioners in a large number of areas, including but not limited to criminal justice, criminology, law, human rights, social justice, social work, nursing, sociology, and political or public affairs.
Foreword Lois A. Herman Series Editor Preface Dilip K. Das and Vicente Riccio Introduction: An interfaces approach to the global problems of gender-based domestic violence Dongling Zhang and Diana Peterson Section One: North and South America 1. The myth of the universal woman: The (white) feminist fantasy and the invisibility of violence against women of color Roksana Badruddoja 2. Paradigm shift in Latin American legislation over time: From domestic violence laws to comprehensive legislation on gender-based violence against women (1990-2020) Nancy Madera 3.Gender-based violence and femicide in Mexico: Why is the law failing to protect Mexico’s women? Emily Acevedo 4. Violence against women in Mexico City: A cry for change Flor Avellaneda and Luis R. Torres 5. Severe licking: Calypso considers domestic violence Alison Mc Letchie and Daina Nathaniel 6. Gender-based violence in the English-speaking Caribbean: Chronicling Guyana’s progress Aneesa A. Baboolal 7. Intersectionality as a means to understanding violence against women in Belize Kiesha Warren-Gordon 8. The dangers of being a woman in Nicaragua Pamela Neumann Section Two: Asia and Oceania 9. Response to domestic violence: India Arundhati Bhattacharyya 10. Combating domestic violence and sexual and gender-based violence during conflict: The case of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh Tonny Kirabira and Fiza Lee-Winter 11. Malaysia responding to domestic violence: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail, Bahiyah Dato Haji Abd Hamid and Ruzy Suliza Hashim 12. From private matter to public problem: Relocating gender-based violence in China Dongling Zhang 13. Social taboos and legal constraints: The status of domestic violence in Kuwait Alanoud AlSharekh and Nour AlMukhled 14. “Mobilizing for punishment”: Legal activism, women's NGOs, and the grassroots in Lebanon Sirin Knecht 15. Domestic violence in Thailand: An in-depth examination of how culture and resource-seeking barriers impact victim safety Tanya Grant 16. Domestic violence in Micronesian context: Past and future challenges Hiroaki Matsuura Section Three: Africa 17. Domestic violence in Ethiopia: An overview Fikresus Amahazion 18. Between reality and expectations: Tackling domestic violence in Egypt Hiam Elgousi 19. Domestic and sexual violence among university students in Ghana Michelle L. Munro-Kramer, Lindsay M. Cannon, Eugene K. M. Darteh, Ruth Owusu-Antwi, and Sarah D. Compton 20. Domestic violence, human rights, and reform in Mauritania Nabil Ouassini and Anwar Ouassini Section Four: Perpetrators and Victims (Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Migrant, and Refugee Populations) 21. Responding to intimate partner violence against women in Spain: Perpetrators’ accounts as a new variable to the ecological approach model Mostafa Boieblan 22. Why domestic violence remains under-reported within migrant communities in Germany Fiza Lee-Winter 23. Ritualized experiences of pain: Love and domestic violence among transgender women in Brazil Thiago de Lima Oliveira and Veronica Alcantara Guerra 24. Socio-legal responses to immigrant and refugee male batterers in the EU and MENA regions Chuka Emezue
Dongling Zhang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor from the Department of Global Languages, Cultures and Societies, Webster University, the United States of America. He earned his PhD degree in Justice Studies from Arizona State University. His research interests include university entrepreneurship education, micro-enterprise development program in China’s urban areas, social capital theories, and feminist theories. His current research focuses on the power dynamics of entrepreneurship, exploring various forms of collective and interpersonal violence instigated by the overwhelming influences of entrepreneurial ethos. It specifically examines the institutions through which a social body—the entrepreneur—is continually structured and transformed. These institutions include the family, neighborhood, labor market, government, and more. Diana Scharff Peterson, PhD, has nearly 20 years of experience in higher education teaching in the areas of research methods; comparative criminal justice systems; race, gender, class, and crime; statistics; criminology; sociology; and drugs and behavior at seven different institutions of higher education. She has been the chairperson of three different criminal justice programs over the past 20 years and has published in the areas of criminal justice, social work, higher education, sociology, business, and management. Her research interests include issues in policing (training and education) and community policing, assessment and leadership in higher education, family violence, evaluation research, and program development. She is the co-editor of Domestic Violence in International Context published by Routledge in 2017.
