Violence against Women and Ethnicity: Commonalities and Differences across Europe

Violence against Women and Ethnicity: Commonalities and Differences across Europe
Author: Monika Schröttle
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2011-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3866495706

This book draws together both: theory and practice on minority/migrant women and gendered violence. The interplay of gender, ethnicity, religion, class, generation and sexuality in shaping the lives, experiences and choices of minority/migrant women affected by violence has not always been adequately theorised within much of the existing writing on violence against women. Feminist theory, especially the insights provided by the concept of intersectionality, are central to the editors’ conceptual frameworks.

Framing Sexual and Domestic Violence through Language

Framing Sexual and Domestic Violence through Language
Author: Renate Klein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-09-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137340096

With examples from throughout Europe and the United States, the contributors to this volume explore how gender violence is framed through language and what this means for research and policy. Language shapes responses to abuse and approaches to perpetrators and interfaces with national debates about gender, violence, and social change.

La violence à l'égard des jeunes femmes en Europe

La violence à l'égard des jeunes femmes en Europe
Author: Ingrid Ramberg
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789287153210

Ce rapport, " La violence à l'égard des jeunes femmes en Europe ", rend compte d'un séminaire qui a rassemblé des responsables de jeunesse, porteurs de projets et autres professionnels ou volontaires concernés par cette thématique. Ce séminaire avait pour but d'identifier des stratégies éducatives et sociales qui permettent d'aborder le problème au niveau européen et de souligner le besoin de lutter contre ces violations persistantes de la dignité humaine par des moyens juridiques et éducatifs.

Violence Against Women and Mental Health

Violence Against Women and Mental Health
Author: Anita Riecher-Rössler
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3805599889

Too prevalent to ignore : violence against women, its prevalence, and health consequences / García-Moreno, C., Stockl, H. -- Gender-based violence in the Middle-East : a review / Madi Skaff, J. -- Violence against women in Latin America / Gaviria A., S.L. -- Violence against women in south Asia / Niaz, U. -- Violence against women in Europe : magnitude and the mental health consequences described by different data sources / Helweg-Larsen, K. -- Intimate partner violence as a risk factor for mental health in South Africa / Jewkes, R. -- Intimate partner violence and mental health / Oram, S., Howard, L.M. -- Sexual assault and women's mental health / Martin, S.L., Parcesepe, A.M. -- Child sexual abuse of girls / MacMillan, H.L., Wathen, C.N. -- Sexual violence and armed conflict : a systematic review of psychosocial support interventions / Stavrou, V. -- Abuse and trafficking among female migrants and refugees / Kastrup, M. -- Abuse in doctor-patient relationships / Tschan, W. -- Workplace harassment based on sex : a risk factor for women's mental health / Cortina, L.M., Leskinen, E.A. -- Violence against women and suicidality : does violence cause suicidal behaviour? / Devries, K.M., Seguin, M. -- Violence against women suffering from severe psychiatric illness / Rondon, M.B. -- Violence against women and mental health : conclusions / García-Moreno, C., Riecher-Rössler, A.

Doing Women's Studies

Doing Women's Studies
Author: Gabriele Griffin
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 184813651X

With the expansion of the EU in 2004 and its inclusion now of 25 European countries, the movement of workers across the Continent will affect the employment opportunities of women. But as this up-to-date investigation across nine countries shows, there remain significant differences amongst specific European countries regarding women's education and employment opportunities. Taking 1945 as its historical starting point, this sociological study, based on some 900 questionnaire responses and more than 300 in-depth interviews, explores the complex inter-relationship between women's employment, the institutionalization of equal opportunities, and Women's Studies training. This volume is the first to explore what happens to women who have undertaken Women's Studies training in the labour market. Factors influencing their actual employment experiences include employment opportunities for women in each country, their expectations of the labour market and gender norms informing those expectations, how far equal opportunities are actually enforced and the strength of local women's movements. Doing Women's Studies provides unique information about, and insightful analyses of, the changing patterns of women's employment in Europe; equal opportunities in a cross-European perspective; educational migration; gender, race, ethnicity and nationality; and the uneven prevalence and impact of Women's Studies on the lifestyles and everyday practices of those women who have experienced it. The contributors are prominent feminist researchers from nine European countries. Their findings will be of interest to sociologists and gender studies experts working in the areas of gender, employment, equal opportunities and the impact of education on employment.

Gender Orders Unbound?

Gender Orders Unbound?
Author: Ilse Lenz
Publisher: Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2007-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3866490917

During the last thirty years, the modernisation of gender relations has been dynamic and comprehensive, shaped by the conflicting forces of globalisation as well as women’s movements around the world. As the patterns of segregation and discrimination of the classical industrial gender order erode, new complexities and contentions in gender relations emerge at various sites such as politics, work and families. The main aim of the book is to trace formal as well as informal gender contracts as they emerge in everyday life and also in new norms and regulations set by states and enterprises. Core issues are the chances and the barriers for equality and new forms of gender reciprocity and solidarity.

Les violences contre les femmes

Les violences contre les femmes
Author: Maryse Jaspard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2011-05-19
Genre: Marital violence
ISBN: 9782707168948

La prise en compte des violences contre les femmes en tant que problème de société s'est consolidée au cours des dix dernières années ; en 2010, la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes a été déclarée grande cause nationale par l'Etat français. Mais que recouvre le concept de violences contre les femmes? Comment identifier les formes de violence? Quelle est leur ampleur? Qui sont les victimes? Qui sont les agresseurs? Des enquêtes récentes de victimation donnent des estimations des faits de violences. Mais seule une analyse approfondie du phénomène permet de déconstruire les idées reçues et de lever les tabous. L'Enquête nationale sur les violences envers les femmes en France (Enveff, 2000) a répondu à cette nécessité; elle demeure la source principale de l'étude sociologique de ces violences. La mondialisation de la reconnaissance des violences faites aux femmes reste un élément majeur du combat contre les inégalités entre les sexes. Le chiffrage de ces violences relève d'enjeux politiques et sociaux fondamentaux, à l'échelon national et international.