The Political Economy of Violence against Women (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations) - Softcover

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True, Jacqui

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9780199755912: The Political Economy of Violence against Women (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations)
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ISBN 10: 0199755914 ISBN 13: 9780199755912
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social and economic rights with men or the same access as men to productive resources. Economic globalization and development are creating new challenges for women's rights as well as some new opportunities for advancing women's economic independence and gender equality. Yet, when women have access to productive resources and they enjoy social and economic rights they are less vulnerable to violence across all societies. The Political Economy of Violence against Women develops a feminist political economy approach to identify the linkages between different forms of violence against women and macro structural processes in strategic local and global sites - from the household to the transnational level. In doing so, it seeks to account for the globally increasing scale and brutality of violence against women. These sites include economic restructuring and men's reaction to the loss of secure employment, the abusive exploitation associated with the transnational migration of women workers, the growth of a sex trade around the creation of free trade zones, the spike in violence against women in financial liberalization and crises, the scourge of sexual violence in armed conflict and post-crisis peacebuilding or reconstruction efforts and the deleterious gendered impacts of natural disasters. Examples are drawn from South Africa, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, China, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, the Pacific Islands, Argentina, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, New Zealand, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Iceland.

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Jacqui True is Professor of Politics and international Relations at Monash University

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199755914
ISBN 13 
9780199755912
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Paperback
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Number of pages
242
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