Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons From Efforts Worldwide (Interpersonal Violence) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199346577 ISBN 13: 9780199346578

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The United States has uncritically exported its law and policy on gender violence without regard to effectiveness or cultural context, and without asking what we might learn from efforts to combat gender violence in the rest of the world. This book asks that question. Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence: Lessons From Efforts Worldwide documents the global scope of gender violence, from countries where the legal response is just emerging to countries with longstanding law and policy regimes. Informed by international human rights law, Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence examines policy successes and failures and grassroots efforts to elicit a robust and proactive response from China to Chile. From the work of local activists to stem the tide of sexual and intimate partner violence after the Haitian earthquake of 2005, to the efforts to eradicate dowry-related violence in India, to the public education campaigns to prevent domestic violence in Scotland, Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence offers a comprehensive vision of efforts around the world to eradicate gender based violence. Featuring the work of leading gender violence academics and activists around the world, Comparative Perspectives on Gender Violence provides a new lens through which to consider U.S. efforts to address gender violence.

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About the Author

Leigh Goodmark, JD from Standford University School of Law, is a professor of law and director of the Gender Violence Clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.  Rashmi Goel, LLB, JSM, and current JSD candidate at Stanford University School of Law, is an associate professor of comparative and criminal law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

From the Back Cover

"This important book offers a careful examination of the complexities of responding to domestic violence as a local and global phenomenon....It is essential reading for domestic violence scholars as well as comparatavists."

Deborah M. Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"This is a thoughtful and timely volume written by an impressive group of global feminist scholars and advocates....This notable volume makes an important contribution to the contemporary scholarship on violence against women and will serve as a useful guide not only for advocates working in the field, but also for those who are empowered to create law and policy to stem gender based violence."

Penelope Andrews, President, Albany Law School

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199346577
• ISBN 13: 9780199346578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Goel Rashmi, Goodmark Leigh