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The Political Economy of Violence against Women (Hardcover)
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The Political Economy of Violence against Women (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
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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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