SDG 5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Browse books and journal articles relating to this SDG below and find out more on the UN Sustainable Development Goals website.
Goal 5: Gender Equality
You are looking at 91 - 100 of 2,357 items
Since the 1980s there has been a rapid increase in the available evidence about the prevalence, causes, impacts and responses to gender-based violence (GBV). Despite the explosion of research in this field – and vital contributions from feminist geographers – space and place remain important, yet overlooked, elements of GBV. This edited collection provides an inter- and multidisciplinary international collection of chapters that foregrounds space and place in the analysis of gender-based violence. Contributors examine core questions relating to the role(s) that space and place-based factors might play in facilitating and producing experiences of violence, with attendant implications for prevention and intervention. Contributions to this collection consider how space and place may be productive in the perpetration of gendered violence, as well as shaping how gendered violence is lived and understood by survivors. With an analytic focus spanning the local, national and transnational, this volume brings together diverse perspectives and ways of understanding the interconnections between space, place and gender-based violence.
What role does physical and virtual space play in gender-based violence (GBV)? Experts from the Global North and South use wide-ranging case studies – from public harassment in India and Kenya to the role of Twitter users in women’s harassment – to examine how spaces can facilitate or prevent GBV and showcase strategies for prevention and intervention from women and LGBTQ+ people.
Students and academics from a range of disciplines will discover how existing research connects with practice and policy developments, the current gaps in research and a future agenda for GBV studies.
Since the 1980s there has been a rapid increase in the available evidence about the prevalence, causes, impacts and responses to gender-based violence (GBV). Despite the explosion of research in this field – and vital contributions from feminist geographers – space and place remain important, yet overlooked, elements of GBV. This edited collection provides an inter- and multidisciplinary international collection of chapters that foregrounds space and place in the analysis of gender-based violence. Contributors examine core questions relating to the role(s) that space and place-based factors might play in facilitating and producing experiences of violence, with attendant implications for prevention and intervention. Contributions to this collection consider how space and place may be productive in the perpetration of gendered violence, as well as shaping how gendered violence is lived and understood by survivors. With an analytic focus spanning the local, national and transnational, this volume brings together diverse perspectives and ways of understanding the interconnections between space, place and gender-based violence.
This chapter examines the spatial dynamics that are faced by men who experience domestic violence and abuse (DVA) at home in childhood, and who become involved with gangs/on-road. Drawing on in-depth life story interviews with survivors of child DVA, this chapter illustrates participants’ complicated relationships with space in relation to their experiences of DVA. This chapter examines how these men constructed their masculine subjectivities in spatially specific ways, arguing that the use of public and private spaces can operate as a gendered strategy for coping with childhood DVA.
This chapter provides an empirical, theoretical and conceptual framework for this edited collection. We trace the historical context of feminist scholarship on space, place and gender-based violence and consider how these works individually, and collectively, provide a foundation for current understandings of the spatial and temporal features of violence and abuse. We situate the contributions to this edited collection within contemporary debates, global public health and geopolitical issues to showcase the intersections between space, power and inequalities that facilitate gendered abuse and harms. Equally, we consider how space can be reimagined as sites of resistance, activism and justice, and how the contributions to this collection provide us with a future research agenda to achieve this.
The 2018 sexual assault and murder of Eurydice Dixon, during her walk home on a winter’s evening in Melbourne, Australia, led to the spontaneous emergence of a temporary yet beautiful memorial on the site in the public park where she was attacked. Much of the public discussion that followed her death focused on the persistent risk experienced by women in public spaces, in which neither their bodies nor the spaces they move through, are experienced as their own. However, in examining the memorialization of Eurydice’s death, I show how this site also held the potential to emerge as an alternative site of justice. I explore messages of sorrow, and pledges left by those who visited the site, to suggest how such sites of mourning might offer the promise of a future justice for all those subjected to violence.
In prisons across Australia, women are rendered socially and geographically invisible, with little accountability for how they are treated. These institutionalized settings replicate women’s previous experiences of violence, particularly domestic and family violence. Like violent partners, prison officers are free to arbitrarily demand women’s unquestioning obedience to directions (no matter how unreasonable) and impose punishment. Too often, strip-searching and solitary confinement – practices that amount to torture under the UN Convention Against Torture – are used to contain and control women prisoners. Most women leave prison retraumatized and at increased risk of sexual, domestic and systemic violence. This chapter explores the way in which the invisibility of prisons in Australia has been used to mask the harm they do to women with lived experience of violence, and their role in legitimizing and perpetuating violence against women. It includes a focus on the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women prisoners, who are by far the fastest-growing cohort of prisoners in Australia and who are particularly affected by violence in all its forms.
On 31 December 2015 throngs of men profited from the New Year’s festivities in Cologne, Germany to rob and sexually molest women revellers. At the time, it was widely reported in the press that the attackers of these women were predominantly men who were Black and foreign. Initially, men seeking asylum from Syria were blamed for the attacks, subsequently it was discovered that many of these perpetrators were from North Africa. These attacks, in Cologne and in other parts of Germany, sparked nationalist backlashes that continue to reverberate around Europe. This chapter examines how imaginaries of migrant sex crime against women has been used to mobilize ideologies of nationhood and of belonging, not least in pro-Brexit pre-referendum discourses. Across the spectrum of the political right and the political left rhetoric about the female body – violated by the Black Other – has been mobilized as both crucible and synecdoche for the forging of a vision of nationhood. This chapter considers some of the implications of the discourses expressed here, which mobilize the figure of the woman-as-victim and enshrines rape culture within the fabric of the nation-building.
This chapter articulates creative arts scholarship regarding Arendtian spaces of appearance with feminist and queer work on space and gender-based violence (GBV). We sought to better understand theatre and poetry as potential spaces of appearance for dialogues about how to reduce GBV. Incorporating methods from duoethnography and co/autoethnography, we pursued our aim by sharing and comparing our experiences as arts practitioners to identify themes and divergences. Initially, we sought to consider theatre and poetry as radical spaces for creating change. However, we soon recognized problems of theatre and poetry themselves as spaces that can reinstate inequalities. We thus focused on possible ways to transform spaces of theatre and poetry towards the radical potentials we still believe they can offer.
In France, the issue of sexual violence against women and girls on public transport has been given prominent attention in recent years, but most studies remain limited as they do not take into account the diversity of sexual offences and the complexity of the transit environment. Based on the French component of the international project Transit Safety Among College Students, this chapter aims to provide a detailed assessment of women students’ victimization on the Paris and Île-de-France transportation system. This chapter relies on the whole-journey approach to determine at which step (riding, waiting, walking) students are victims of sexual harassment and assault. Results suggest that women are mostly victims of verbal and non-verbal offences, and that victimization occurs more frequently in rail transport than in buses, especially sexual assault such as unwanted touching and groping. Similar and specific victimization patterns appear for both modes. Despite methodological limitations, these results imply researchers and practitioners in France and elsewhere should formally apply the whole journey approach to assess more precisely sexual violence against women and girls on public transport and develop safety measures accordingly.
