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The article reviews feminist strategies to end violence against women, the gender dimensions of femicide, the nature of the UN, concepts of progress and the relationship of numbers to society. It offers an empirical analysis of the development of the UN SDGs on gender, violence and femicide.
Feb 24, 2023 · This study aims to contribute to the discussion on the cultural roots of VAW and to address gender norms at different levels. Individual gender norms influence, for example, attitudes toward gender roles and moral views that justify violent behavior when expected gender roles are not observed.
Apr 1, 2022 · These represent two strategies: a human rights-led focus on violence as a violation of women’s human rights that concerned violence against women only and a CEDAW-led focus on violence as a form of discrimination against women that called for gender disaggregation of all statistics.
- Sylvia Walby
Gender-based violence is one of the oldest sustaining features of war but has received significant scholarly attention only in the past two decades. Much of this work, however, focuses selectively on sexual violence, specifically rape by men against women.
Sep 25, 2019 · Femicide differs from male homicide because gender inequality is a contributing factor and killings more often involve intimacy. The authors cover theories, justice responses, activism, and Risk Factors, highlighting the need to raise the visibility of femicide.
Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence [1] [2] and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), [3] is violent acts primarily committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [4] committed against persons specifically because they are of the female gender, and can ...
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This may reflect the ‘taken for grantedness of violence’, the hierarchical and gendered nature of sociological work, especially on theory, combined with an earlier marginalization of gender, ethnicity and age.
