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Violence against Women in Politics
Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this phenomenon, exploring how women came to give these experiences a violence against women in politics.
Tracing its global emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on insights from multiple disciplines--political science, sociology, history, gender studies, economics, linguistics, psychology, and forensic science--to develop a more robust version of this concept to support ongoing activism and inform future scholarly work.
Krook argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors, taking physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and semiotic forms.
Incorporating a wide range of country examples, she illustrates what this violence looks like in practice, catalogues emerging solutions around the world, and considers how to document this phenomenon more effectively. Highlighting its implications for democracy, human rights, and gender equality, the book asserts that addressing this issue requires ongoing dialogue and collaboration to ensure women's equal rights to participate--freely and safely--in political life around the globe.
Tracing its global emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on insights from multiple disciplines--political science, sociology, history, gender studies, economics, linguistics, psychology, and forensic science--to develop a more robust version of this concept to support ongoing activism and inform future scholarly work.
Krook argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors, taking physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and semiotic forms.
Incorporating a wide range of country examples, she illustrates what this violence looks like in practice, catalogues emerging solutions around the world, and considers how to document this phenomenon more effectively. Highlighting its implications for democracy, human rights, and gender equality, the book asserts that addressing this issue requires ongoing dialogue and collaboration to ensure women's equal rights to participate--freely and safely--in political life around the globe.
- GenresFeminism
336 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2020
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March 22, 2023
This was one of those books where I was unironically highlighting the entire page. It was so densely packed with information! It is an incredible accumulation of all the research regarding VAWiP. It gives the history of VAWiP (both the phenomenon and the study of it), theoretical frameworks to understand it, and the typology of violence as well as potential solutions and challenges. I LOVE that Krook views this book as a jumping off point and has a website that she updates with new research and documentation on the topic (see https://www.vawpolitics.org/research). Extra points for using a broad definition of women in politics (including journalists, human rights defenders, etc.) and a global body of research to show how this pernicious problem is present across all nations.
P.S. I read all but the last chapter within two weeks and then it just took me forever to get around to reading the final chapter, it won't actually take you a year to read.
P.S. I read all but the last chapter within two weeks and then it just took me forever to get around to reading the final chapter, it won't actually take you a year to read.
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