ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art overview of the latest research in the field of gender and violence. Each of the 23 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate including rape, stalking, online harassment, domestic abuse, FGM, trafficking and prostitution in relation to gender and violence. They study violence against women, but also look at male victims and perpetrators as well as gay, lesbian and transgender violence.

The interdisciplinary nature of the subject area is highlighted, with authors spanning criminology, social policy, sociology, geography, health, media and law, alongside activists and members of statutory and third sector organisations. The diversity of perspectives all highlight that gendered violence is both an age-old and continuing social problem.

By drawing together leading scholars this handbook provides an up-to-the-minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research. This book is both an invaluable resource for scholars and an indispensable teaching tool for use in the classroom and will be of interest to students, academics, social workers and other professionals working to end gender-based violence.

part I|69 pages

Theoretical discussions of gender and violence

chapter 1|13 pages

Coercive control as a framework for responding to male partner abuse in the UK

Opportunities and challenges

chapter 2|13 pages

What’s in a name?

The Scottish government, feminism and the gendered framing of domestic abuse

chapter 3|12 pages

On the limits of typologies

Understanding young men’s use of violence in intimate relationships

chapter 4|14 pages

Male victims

Control, coercion and fear?

part II|152 pages

Specific forms, representations of, and responses to, gendered violence

chapter 6|12 pages

The implications of pornification

Pornography, the mainstream and false equivalences

chapter 7|12 pages

Statutory response to sexual violence

Where doubt is always considered reasonable

chapter 8|12 pages

Stalking as a gender-based violence

chapter 9|12 pages

Cyber-trolling as symbolic violence

Deconstructing gendered abuse online

chapter 12|13 pages

Femicide

chapter 14|13 pages

Violence against older women

chapter 15|12 pages

Female genital mutilation

A form of gender-based violence

chapter 17|12 pages

Prostitution and violence

part III|84 pages

Conducting research on gendered violence

chapter 18|13 pages

Lost in translation?

Comparative and international work on gender-related violence

chapter 19|12 pages

Researching child sexual exploitation

Methodological challenges of working with police data

chapter 21|13 pages

Young women’s responses to safety advice in bars and clubs

Implications for future sexual violence prevention campaigns

chapter 22|16 pages

‘Thinking and doing’

Children’s and young people’s understandings and experiences of intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA)

chapter 23|16 pages

Making our feelings matter

Using creative methods to re-assemble the rules on healthy relationships education in Wales