Main description:

This book provides comprehensive information about various types of gender-based violence (GBV) and abuse. GBV is a major public health and social problem that affects people, mostly women and girls, in every community, culture, and country. GBV refers to the violence or a pattern of abusive behaviours including physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviours resulting in physical, sexual or psychological harm. It is associated with severe physical and psychological consequences, and can result in death. .

GBV can take many forms including female foeticide, infanticide, female genital mutilation, child marriage, grooming, trafficking, forced marriage, dowry- related abuse, honour-based violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking, harassment, street violence, abuse against older people, domestic violence, and intimate partner violence. It can take place in public, private and virtual settings, and within the context of intimate, familial, community and institutional relationships. While all these forms affect girls and women more, boys and men can also be exposed of various forms of violence including child abuse, sexual abuse, wartime violence, corporal punishment to name a few.

This book takes a unique approach and presents an overview of gender-based violence and related practices throughout the world. The book is written in a user friendly manner in order to be accessible as an introductory text to a wide range of readers including students, practitioners and researchers. Edited by a public health academic and a social worker, with contributions representing a wide range of disciplines, the book will appeal to many professions including nurses, midwives, social care and social work practitioners, police, teachers, psychologists, and sociologists.

Contents:

Each chapter will look at one form of violent act or harmful practice and will provide information such as definitions or typologies, prevalence, where it is practiced, its impact (including health impact), preventive measures etc. There will be a short case study included in each chapter to explain the problem.
Foreword Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Understanding Gender-based Violence Chapter 2 Theorising gender-based violence Part 2 Child Abuse Chapter 3 Child sexual exploitation and its impact Chapter 4 Childhood sexual abuse Part 3 Intimate partner violence Chapter 5 Forced marriage Chapter 6 Intimate partner violence Chapter 7 Economic abuse Chapter 8 The intersection between domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental health problems Chapter 9 Post-separation and divorce-related abuse Chapter 10 Stalking Chapter 11 Femicide Chapter 12 Familicide as a Form of Abuse Chapter 13 Widowhood Part 4 Non-partner sexual violence Chapter 14 Exploring Rape as a Gender-Based Crime Chapter 15 Sexual harassment: breastfeeding, design and the city Part 5 Harmful practices Chapter 16 Acid attacks Chapter 17 Bride abduction Chapter 18 Colourism Chapter 19 Dowry-related abuse and dowry death Chapter 20 Female genital mutilation Chapter 21 Honour crimes Chapter 22 Violence, Land, Gender: Exploring connections Chapter 23 Menstruation and gender-based violence Chapter 24 Spiritual abuse and gender-based violence Chapter 25 Wartime violence and intimate partner violence Part 6 Human Trafficking Chapter 26 Abuses against female migrant domestic workers in the UK: An intersectional approach Chapter 27 Human trafficking Chapter 28 Migration and gender-based violence Chapter 29 Sex work and sex trafficking Part 7 Institutional violence Chapter 30 Obstetric violence Chapter 31 Pornography Chapter 32 Reproductive coercion and abuse Chapter 33 Workplace Harassment Part 8 Identity abuse Chapter 34 Domestic Violence and Abuse in LGBTQ+ Communities Chapter 35 Older adult mistreatment Chapter 36 Violence against disabled people Part 9 Digital and technology-facilitated abuse Chapter 37 Digital sexual assault: Understanding the non-consensual sharing of sexual images Chapter 38 Online text-based (sexual) abuse Chapter 39 Technology-facilitated abuse Part 10 Legal responses Chapter 40 Domestic Violence: The Legislative Overview of South Asian Countries Chapter 41 The international legal framework on gender-based violence Part 11 Conclusion Chapter 42 Reflections and Way Forward Glossary of terms Abbreviations