Violence Against Women of African Descent

Anita Kalunta-Crumpton

doi:10.5771/9781498580977

Summary

Africa as a continent, which holds strong to its patriarchal cultural principles and practices, is known for its blatant display of violent abuse of women, including state-sanctioned violence, and its lax approach to national legislative policies and international treaties against violence against women. Using data from Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe, this edited collection showcases a variety of experiences and perspectives in the international comparative study of violence against women of African ancestry. This approach provides the context for examining the problem of violence against women, including its policy and practice responses (if any), as it impacts women of African origin in different parts of the world. This book is of value to those interested in African studies, criminology, gender studies, sociology, and many more.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8096-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8097-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 364
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 1. Laws, Media, Religion, and Women’s Citizenship No access
  2. Conclusion No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. References No access
2. 1. Overview of VAW Prevalence Rates No access
  2. Structural Factors Influencing VAW No access
  3. Social Situational Factors Influencing VAW No access
  4. Dispositional Factors Influencing VAW No access
  5. Assessing the Feasibility of an Early Warning System for VAW No access
  6. Conclusion: Probable Requirements of an Early Warning System for VAW in Kenya No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
3. 1. Data Collection No access
  2. Features of Sexual Abuse of Young Women No access
  3. Sexual/Physical Abuse in the Name of Marriage No access
  4. Subordination and Degradation of Young Women: Cultural, Social, Economic, and Political Abuse No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. References No access
4. 1. Brief Background to Understanding VAW in Ghana No access
  2. Types, Forms, and Prevalence of VAW in Ghana No access
  3. Sociocultural Traditions, Attitudes, and Violence against Women No access
  4. Domestic Violence Act (Act 732, 2007): The Landmark Legislation No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. References No access
5. 1. Surveying Violence against Women in Ethiopia No access
  2. Socioeconomic Structures, Patriarchy, and Cultural Practices in Ethiopia No access
  3. The Qualitative Study: Research Method and Analysis No access
  4. Research Findings No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
6. 1. Patriarchy, Legacy of Apartheid, and VAW No access
  2. Unreliability of National Data on VAW No access
  3. Conclusion: VAW, Prevention, Control, and Challenges No access
  4. References No access
7. 1. Forms and Patterns of Human Trafficking of Nigerian Women: Domestic and International No access
  2. Vulnerability to Trafficking: Some Causal Explanations No access
  3. Some Policy and Practice Responses to Human Trafficking in Nigeria No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
1. 1. Moral Panic and Sexual Governance: The Victimhood Paradigm of Trafficking No access
  2. The Ambivalence of European Asylum Policies: Humanitarian Protection and Deportation No access
  3. The Humanitarian and Security Frame of Law 286/1998 (Article 18): Detaining to Protect No access
  4. The Ponte Galeria Case: Insights for Re-Gendering Asylum as Political Claim No access
  5. Conclusion: The Feminist Approach to Trafficking as Gender-Based Violence No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. From a Criminal Approach to a Human Rights Focus No access
  2. A Nightmare Journey in Pursuit of a Dream No access
  3. International and National War against Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation No access
  4. Conclusion: A Proposal for the Future No access
  5. References No access
3. 1. Violence against Women and Girls in Britain and in the African Community No access
  2. Government Policies on Violence against Women and Girls: Implications for African Women and Girls No access
  3. Summary Remarks No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
4. 1. From Africa to Australia No access
  2. Method: A Review of the Literature No access
  3. Domestic and Family Violence Data and African Refugee Women No access
  4. Conclusion: Lessons from Gender Relations in Precolonial Africa No access
  5. References No access
5. 1. Intimate Partner Violence in Canada No access
  2. Black Women in Canada No access
  3. Evidence from the Toronto Youth Crime Victimization Survey (TYCVS) No access
  4. Responding to Intimate Partner Violence—An African Canadian Perspective No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. References No access
6. 1. Immigrant African Women: Under the Shadow of the Immigrant Women Monolith No access
  2. Concluding Comments: One-Size-Does-Not-Fit-All in IPV Research No access
  3. References No access
1. 1. A Culture of Violence No access
  2. Disaggregated Data from the 2017 Women’s Health Survey No access
  3. Violent Serious and Minor Crimes: Data from the TTPS and the Media No access
  4. Conclusions and Recommendations No access
  5. References No access
2. 1. Prevalence and Forms of IPV and Violence against Women in Jamaica No access
  2. Contributing Factors to IPV No access
  3. Combating IPV in Jamaica No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
3. 1. The Invisibility of Black Women No access
  2. Caged CorpoREALity and the Hypervisibility of Black Women No access
  3. Conclusion: Black Feminism as a Means of Resistance No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. References No access
Author Index No access Pages 319 - 328
Subject Index No access Pages 329 - 354
About the Editor No access Pages 355 - 356
About the Contributors No access Pages 357 - 364