The Political Economy of Violence against Women (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations) - Softcover

True, Jacqui

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199755914 ISBN 13: 9780199755912

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Jacqui True is Professor of Politics and international Relations at Monash University

Review

"The Political Economy of Violence Against Women is one of the most authoritative accounts of women's rights in an age of globalising economy." - Winner of the American Political Science Association Best Book in Human Rights Award 2013

"The book is a compelling example of how academic scholarship can be brought to bear on policy and political debates...it is a tour de force, especially with regard to its central argument that violence against women in all its myriad forms and at multiple levels is at root an international political economy issue."
- Winner of the British International Studies Association 2013 IPEG Book Prize

"One of the best Gender Studies books of all time" - BookAuthoritybookauthority.org/books/best-gender-studies-books?t=tle7jj&s=award&book=0199755922

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199755914
• ISBN 13: 9780199755912
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242