Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent
years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement
has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. This book
provides the first comprehensive account of this phenomenon,
exploring how women came to give these experiences a name: violence
against women in politics. Tracing its global emergence as a
concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on insights from multiple
disciplines-political science, sociology, history, gender studies,
economics, linguistics, psychology, and forensic science-to develop
a more robust version of this concept to support ongoing activism
and inform future scholarly work. Krook argues that violence
against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of
existing definitions of political violence privileging physical
aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon
involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as
political actors, taking physical, psychological, sexual, economic,
and semiotic forms. Incorporating a wide range of country examples,
she illustrates what this violence looks like in practice,
catalogues emerging solutions around the world, and considers how
to document this phenomenon more effectively. Highlighting its
implications for democracy, human rights, and gender equality, the
book asserts that addressing this issue requires ongoing dialogue
and collaboration to ensure women's equal rights to
participate-freely and safely-in political life around the globe.
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