Jenn Freitag

Understanding Gender Violence

A Comprehensive Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Accessible and engaging - an essential read for those wanting to understand gender violence

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781538197011
• ISBN-10: 1538197014
• Artikelnr.: 71853877

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Freitag, PhD, is senior lecturer of communication at University of Dayton. For fifteen years, she has been involved in anti-oppression and gender violence prevention and response work. She is the creator of "I Want My Jacket Back," an interactive lecture that uses stand-up musical comedy to facilitate dialogue about gender violence. Freitag has extensive experience working in and with nonprofit agencies, city and county sexual assault response teams, PreK-12 school districts, college campuses, law enforcement and criminal justice agencies, and community groups. Jenn has directed prevention programs and been invited to speak, perform, and facilitate workshops at a variety of college campuses, academic conferences, and statewide conferences for agencies devoted to gender violence prevention and response. She has published in Violence Against Women, Women and Language, and the Texas Speech Communication Journal. She is also the founding editor of Pedagogy & Theatre of the OppressedJournal, a peer-reviewed publication that bridges the work of educators, activists, and academics, which she continues to support as an associate editor and reviewer.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: The Necessity of a Comprehensive Approach
* Provides an introduction to the history of social movement around
issues of gender violence in the US
* Establishes need for more analysis of gender violence because there
is no evidence to suggest widespread reduction in incidences in the
US since prevention and response work began
* Introduces the four reasons why the problem of gender violence is so
difficult to eradicate: it is a problem of pandemic proportions, it
is a complicated social phenomenon, it is ingrained in everyday
experiences, and it is interwoven with other forms of oppression
* Overviews major successes over the past few decades in
victim-centered service, legal processes, policy changes, and
education and awareness-raising, while also noting their limitations
* Introduces what a comprehensive approach to gender violence involves
using the concepts of a "wheel of gender violence"
Chapter 2: Defining Gender Violence
* Opens with a definition of gender violence and a breakdown of the
language of gender violence-what is meant by "gender" and
"violence"-through introduction to the idea of a system of gender and
the importance of cultural context in understanding gender violence
* Defines and explains six primary types of gender violence:
gender-based discrimination, sexual violence, partner violence,
stalking, ideologically-motivated gender violence, and gender-based
hate crime
* Defines specific gender-violent actions that fall under each type of
gender violence
Chapter 3: Prevalence of Gender Violence
* Provides a statistical overview of rates of all types of gender
violence across cultural difference
* Highlights differences in impact across several areas of cultural
difference including gender, sexual orientation and gender identity,
race and ethnicity, age and ability, socioeconomic class and
nationality, and migration, conflict, and displacement
* Explains limitations of quantitative research and lack of research on
certain populations
Chapter 4: Individual Impact of Gender Violence
* Describes common individual responses to gender violence from
qualitative research, including possible physical, psychological, and
emotional reactions
* Explains different types of trauma (long term, acute, and complex)
that may be experienced as a result to gender violence
* Outlines various factors that may influence individual impact of
gender violence, including duration and frequency, perceived level of
threat and personal violation, environmental specifics, personal
characteristics, relationship with those committed the abuse, and how
and when others respond to the situation
* Describes barriers that individuals may encounter to seeking and
receiving support after experiencing gender violence, dependent on
availability and ease of accessing services, perception of service
providers and first responders, and intersecting issues based on
membership in underserved populations
Chapter 5: Collective Impact of Gender Violence
* Introduces the collective impact of gender violence as the
statistical prevalence multiplied by its effects on individuals
* Provides an overview of the impact of gender violence beyond
individuals on five major levels: close relationships; first
responders/service providers; communities; institutional, statewide,
and national; and global
* Uses descriptive and statistical data to demonstrate costs economic
costs of gender violence US health care, jobs and education, and the
criminal justice system
* Emphasizes the incalculable impact of gender violence on a global
level when statistical prevalence, individual responses, and
collective effects are combined
Chapter 6: The System of Gender
* Situates the root cause of gender violence in the cultural system of
gender and describes what this means
* Describes how children, adolescents, and adults learn gender and
introduces concepts including sex assigned at birth, gender, gender
identity, gender expression, and doing gender
* Explains ways that individuals may be pressured, awarded, or
disciplined based on certain expectations of gendered behavior and
how this connects to gender violence
* Introduces the idea of a gender binary and its associations with
women (femininity) and men (masculinity) and how it permeates various
aspects of life
* Defines systems of oppression based on gender and gender-based
privilege and explains their connection to rigid roles and
expectations based on the gender binary, especially through
patriarchy
* Explains the connection between the gender binary, gender-based
privilege, and gender inequality
* Discusses the impact of gendered system and its laws, policies, and
social disciplining practices on individual expressions of gender
Chapter 7: Culture of Gender Violence
* Defines a culture of violence and how it is maintained
* Provides an overview of how a culture of gender violence is
historically situated in war, colonization, global trade, genocide,
slavery, lynching, property ownership, and divisions between public
and private life, and relational and sexual scripts influenced by
rigid gender expectations and unequal power dynamics
* Describes what characterizes a culture of gender violence, including
continuous pressure for individuals to do gender according to rigidly
defined expectations, and limited definitions and norms of acceptable
(hetero)sexual expression
* Explains gendered power dynamics relationships with same-gender or
gender nonconforming partners
* Points out how differences in social context and cultural identity
influence differences in gender expectations and dynamics across all
relationships
* Details the impact of a culture of gender violence upon people who
experience it and the role that institutions play in minimizing,
dismissing, and normalizing it
* Presents gender violence as an ongoing cycle rooted in a system of
gender and maintained by institutions that perpetuate gender division
and inequality, internalized hypermasculinity, victim blame, lack of
committer accountability, and individual rather than institutional
culpability
Chapter 8: Contributors to Gender Violence
* Describes sociological, psychological, and communicative factors that
contribute to why an individual commits an act of gender violence and
why a culture of gender violence remains and intact
* Defines and explains each of the following contributors: biology
(genes and hormones) early life experiences (quality of parenting,
role modeling, peer modeling and bonding, patterns of behavior in
early relationships, and intergenerational transmission of violence),
social and emotional skills (unhealthy coping, lack of empathy, and
underdeveloped interpersonal communication skills), difficult life
experiences (history of abuse, aggregation of adversities, systemic
oppression, and drug addiction), ideas about sex (sex negativity and
sexual objectification/dehumanization) and misuse of power
(entitlement, prejudice, grooming, drugs, illusion of safety, and
opportunity)
Chapter 9: Misperceptions about Gender Violence
* Connects a cycle of gender violence to the distortion of the problem,
oversimplification of its cause, and misrepresentation of the people
who commit it and those victimized by it
* Explains misperceptions about the problem of gender violence: why
people upset about the issue often face a backlash, how it is still
largely considered an issue women alone are responsible for
addressing, how individual acts of gender violence may be dismissed
as harmless or not serious, why people often believe gender violence
is deserved or easily avoided, or why certain forms of gender
violence do not elicit empathy from others
* Details how misperceptions about the causes of gender violence are
rooted in a belief that acts of gender violence are isolated
instances that most people could avoid if they take preventative
action, and explains how ignoring the root cause of gender violence
leads to misunderstandings about why gender violence occurs;
clarifies that gender violence is not an inevitable problem caused by
biology or provocation
* Describes the stereotypes of people who commit gender violence and
their connection to racism, classism, and ableism, and other systems
of oppression; introduces the concept of thenonstereotypical accused
to illuminate how some individuals are shielded, defended, and
supported when someone makes accusations of gender violence against
them
* Explains misperceptions about people who experience gender violence
and how cultural understandings of victim and survivor labels have
led to racist, sexist, and classist assumptions about who can
experience gender violence and how they are often viewed with
suspicion
* Details the personal and professional challenges that people face
when deciding to disclose their experiences of gender violence to
others and what issues contribute to why their disclosures are often
met with skepticism and disbelief
* Digs into the complexities associated with automatic presumptions of
false accusations
Chapter 10: Applying a Comprehensive Approach to Gender Violence
* Offers beginning applications of a comprehensive approach to gender
violence to five areas for consideration: victimization and support;
indicators of gender violence; justice, accountability, and safety;
prevention; and collaboration and sustainability
* Includes suggestions for providing better and more accessible support
to underserved populations affected by gender violence, correcting
misperceptions about victim credibility, promoting the agency of each
individual to make choices about what to do following an experience
of gender violence, rejecting expectations for performing a "good"
survivor, and using our collective voice to support people who make
public disclosures
* Explains how to use the comprehensive framework to identify when
gender violence might have occurred or is in the midst of happening
to increase early detection and lead to early and more effective
intervention and response
* Promotes the discussion of difficult questions about justice,
accountability, and safety by engaging the complexities of
institutional responses to gender violence and the pervasiveness of
systemic oppressions in disciplinary procedures and criminal justice
systems
* Identifies the current state of prevention work and suggests future
directions that addresses the root cause and contributors of all
types of gender violence
Invites widespread dialogue between all people and organizations involved
in ending gender violence and why collaboration and sustainability are key
for the sustainability of our efforts moving forward