The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro are renowned for their high
levels of urban violence at the hands of gangs and the police. This
book problematises the exclusive focus on men as the victims of
these wars played out on city streets, an approach which serves to
trivialize and sideline the experiences and victimization of women.
Nevertheless, women are both actors and victims in these wars, as
well as suffering from distinct forms of violence, most notably
domestic and sexual violence. This book explores the moral,
ideological and spatial boundaries that are produced by high levels
of violence and the ways in which they govern everyday interaction,
behaviour and movement. Men and women engage with these boundaries
in distinctive ways, in negotiating or challenging the imposition
of norms and unwritten wars that delimit everyday behaviour. The
book argues for a more holistic gendered perspective in how we
conceptualise the issue of urban violence and how we develop
alternatives and initiatives to tackle violence in general.
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