Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-ecomic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social and ecomic rights with men or the same access as men to productive resources. Ecomic globalization and development are creating new challenges for women's rights as well as some new opportunities for advancing women's ecomic independence and gender equality. Yet, when women have access to productive resources and they enjoy social and ecomic rights they are less vulnerable to violence across all societies. The Political Ecomy of Violence against Women develops a feminist political ecomy 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 ecomic 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-10
0199755914
ISBN-13
9780199755912
eBay Product ID (ePID)
129200339
Product Key Features
Author
Jacqui True
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Politics: General & Référence
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
340g
Height
233mm
Width
159mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Spine
17mm
First Published
2012
Series Title
Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
Prizes
Winner of American Political Science Association's 2012 biennial prize for the best book in human rights. Australian Political Science Association inaugural 2015 Carole Pateman Prize for best book in gender and politics.
Author Biography
Jacqui True Is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University