“Calling a state a state”: Feminist politics and the policing of violence against women in Brazil

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence is a history of grassroots activism by, for, and about incarcerated domestic violence survivors, criminalized rape resisters, and dissident women prisoners in the 1970s and early 1980s. Across the country, in and outside of prisons, radical women participated in collective actions that insisted on the interconnections between interpersonal violence against women and the racial and gender violence of policing and imprisonment. These organizing efforts generated an anticarceral feminist politics that was defined by a critique of state violence; an understanding of race, gender, class, and sexuality as mutually constructed systems of power and meaning; and a practice of coalition-based organizing. Drawing on an array of archival sources as well as first-person narratives, the book traces the political activities, ideas, and influence of this activist current. All Our Trials demonstrates how it shaped broader debates about the root causes of and remedies for violence against women as well as played a decisive role in the making of a prison abolition movement.

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Silencing racialised shame and normalising respectability in “coloured” men’s discourses of partner violence against women in Cape Town, South Africa

Feminism & Psychology ◽

10.1177/0959353519841410 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 177-194

Author(s):

Taryn J. van Niekerk

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Working Class ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Cape Town ◽

Community Members ◽

Race And Class ◽

Individual Interviews ◽

Feminist Politics ◽

Partner Violence Against Women

This paper explores how shame is constructed in working-class “coloured” men’s talk about their violence against women partners in Cape Town, South Africa. It examines how men who are violent toward their partners attempt to dissociate from their shamed identities and their perpetration of violence at the intersection of their gender, race and class identities, and how these processes allow men to produce subjectivities as “respectable coloured” men. Ten individual interviews were conducted with men who had perpetrated violence against their partner(s) residing in a predominantly working-class “coloured” community on the peripheries of Cape Town, South Africa. A Foucauldian discourse analysis tracks the complicated processes followed by men in dissociating from shamed subjectivities towards ones that encompass pride. The men talk about the battle for subjectivity in their pursuit for a “respectable”, “good” masculinity, which is commended in specific pro-feminist spaces while being reportedly questioned or denounced by their fellow community members. The article concludes by considering the usefulness of shame in this sample of South African “coloured” men, and its capacity to mobilise men towards a pro-feminist politics.

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You get to stop him! Gendered violence and interactive witnessing in Netflix’s Kimmy vs The Reverend

Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies ◽

10.1177/1749602020976914 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 30-46

Author(s):

Stephanie Patrick

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Gendered Violence ◽

Call To Action ◽

Fine Line ◽

Feminist Politics ◽

Four Seasons ◽

Systemic Violence ◽

Female Survivor ◽

Interactive Feature

Across four seasons of her Netflix hit comedy, Kimmy Schmidt emerged as a strong, female survivor of sexual violence. However, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt would often walk a fine line between post-feminist and feminist understandings of rape and gendered violence, while reinforcing harmful racial tropes rooted in ‘white feminism’. In 2020, Netflix brought Kimmy back for her ‘biggest adventure yet’ in Kimmy vs the Reverend, but, this time, the viewer had the power, as the tagline read, to ‘decide what happens’, with Netflix’s interactive feature. The article argues that Netflix’s interactivity feature is employed in potentially transformative ways, providing a call-to-action to fans and implicating the audience as both spectators and witnesses to injustices of systemic violence against women. However, the 2020 film's investment in, and deployment of white feminist politics mirrors a broader media erasure of the experiences of racialised women, while closing down the interactive potential of identification across difference.

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Violence against women and HIV

Reproductive Health Matters ◽

10.1016/s0968-8080(01)90114-4 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 9 (18) ◽

pp. 182

Keyword(s):

Violence Against Women ◽

Women And Hiv

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Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

10.1017/cbo9780511626852 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 68

Author(s):

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Conflict Zones

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Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the European Union: A Systematic Review

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000392 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 104-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Enrique Gracia ◽

Marisol Lila ◽

Faraj A. Santirso

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Public Health Problem ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Cochrane Library ◽

Effective Prevention ◽

Partner Violence Against Women ◽

The Eu

Abstract. Attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) are increasingly recognized as central to understanding of this major social and public health problem, and guide the development of more effective prevention efforts. However, to date this area of research is underdeveloped in western societies, and in particular in the EU. The present study aims to provide a systematic review of quantitative studies addressing attitudes toward IPVAW conducted in the EU. The review was conducted through Web of Science, PsychINFO, Medline, EMBASE, PUBMED, and the Cochrane Library, in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) recommendations. This review aimed to identify empirical studies conducted in the EU, published in English in peer-reviewed journals from 2000 to 2018, and analyzing attitudes toward IPVAW. A total of 62 of 176 eligible articles were selected according to inclusion criteria. Four sets of attitudes toward IPVAW were identified as the main focus of the studies: legitimation, acceptability, attitudes toward intervention, and perceived severity. Four main research themes regarding attitudes toward IPVAW emerged: correlates of attitudes, attitudes as predictors, validation of scales, and attitude change interventions. Although interest in this research area has been growing in recent years, the systematic review revealed important gaps in current knowledge on attitudes toward IPVAW in the EU that limits its potential to inform public policy. The review outlines directions for future study and suggests that to better inform policy making, these future research efforts would benefit from an EU-level perspective.

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