Working Against Gender-Based Violence in the American South: An Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Advocacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110413
Author(s):  
Ebru Cayir ◽  
Mindi Spencer ◽  
Deborah Billings ◽  
DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias ◽  
Alyssa Robillard
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
The American South ◽  
Gender Based

Non-profit organizations that address gender-based violence must create diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces for advocates so that they can adequately serve diverse survivors. Despite recent efforts, differential treatment and high turnover among minority advocates continue. Further strategies to eliminate discriminative organizational practices are needed. We interviewed 25 advocates employed by non-profit organizations in a Southeastern state to examine how race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality shape their work experiences. Guided by constructivist grounded theory and intersectionality, data analysis yielded four major themes that covered white dominance in advocacy, essentialized womanhood and heteronormativity, serving communities of color, working in the Deep South. Patriarchal values, religious norms, and gender roles influenced how advocates’ work was received by the communities. Racial/ethnic minority, and sexual and/or gender minority advocates faced discrimination, tokenism, and negative stereotypes. Transforming organizational climate and policies is necessary to support minority advocates’ work engagement and ability to serve marginalized communities.

Points of Contact

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Hannah E. Britton
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Secondary Trauma ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Institutional Instability ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Gender Based

Survivors of gender-based violence engage the state at critical moments in their lives, and it is essential for the state to address a range of their emotional, medical, and legal needs. This chapter examines several such points of contact in South Africa, including the courts, the police, trauma centers, rape crisis centers, and medical facilities. This chapter finds that these institutions are often framed within a prosecution framework. While such carceral approaches are important, they fail to address the larger patterns of structural violence, inequality, and vulnerability that could prevent violence before it occurs. The chapter explores the toll of emotional labor, secondary trauma, and job insecurity faced by volunteers and staff in these institutions. This vulnerability may contribute to high turnover, perpetuating institutional instability.

scholarly journals Exploring understandings of sexual consent amongst Life Orientation student-teachers through intergroup dialogue

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathabo Khau
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Sexual Consent ◽  
Intergroup Dialogue ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Sex Positive

In this article, the author reports on how intergroup dialogue was used amongst Life Orientation (LO) student-teachers to deconstruct the heteropatriarchal notions of sexual consent, in the context of gender-based violence (GBV). Three sessions of intergroup dialogue were arranged between third-year student-teachers and female survivors of GBV from a local Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) in exploring the perceptions of sexual consent, to deepen their understanding regarding the concepts of shaming, blaming and silencing that perpetuate GBV in communities. Third-year LO student-teachers engaged in dialogue with four youth survivors of GBV from a local NPO who shared their experiences of GBV and sexual consent. The heteropatriarchal views to GBV held by student-teachers were disrupted through the dialogues between the two groups thus enabling a greater understanding of sexual consent and the role played by shaming, blaming and silencing of victims in perpetuating GBV. The findings highlighted that intergroup dialogue could be a useful tool in creating norm-critical and sex-positive schools and communities.

Intersecting Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Timilsina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health are well-studied with accolades of literature on each topic; however, their interrelationships have been under-described. Mental Health problems can be result of concurrent or past Sexual and Reproductive Health ill event and vice versa. This article presents intersection between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health based on available literature. Intersections between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health and their impacts can be studied through life course perspective and needs prioritized attention in case of Gender Based Violence and for people living with disability. The article highlights the importance to explore other aspects such as emotions, gender and sexuality associated with Mental Health and to study and understand physiological and psychological context between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health. It also stresses the need of further research on intersection between Mental Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Navigating State, Religion and Gender: A Case Study of ABAAD’s Gender Activism in Lebanon

Politeia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Elisabeth Bartelink ◽  
Elisabet Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Doing Gender ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

This article examines the work of ABAAD so as to explore the complexities of doing gender activism in a country ruled by both the state and religious law. The work of this non-faith, non-political organisation allows for such an exploration within postcolonial settings where religious law has tremendous influence. In keeping with the scholarly debate on how contestations around gender and sexuality often play out where religious and secular matters intersect, we find it both relevant and important to consider the responses of ABAAD’s gender activism in the context of Lebanon. We draw on the case of ABAAD to explore how “transformational approaches” propose to achieve gender equality and prevent gender-based violence through transforming patriarchal structures. We demonstrate that such “transformational approaches” require active yet careful engagement with religion through long-term dialogue and exchange. In the wake of the influx of Syrian refugees into Lebanon, interventions tend to focus on responding to the increase in gender-based violence in refugee communities. While such responses are urgent, necessary and important, we argue that they also include a shift from “transformational approaches” to “gendered humanitarianisms,” which can hinder change in underlying discriminatory structures.

Understanding Gender-Based Violence Prevention among Young Women : Youth Workers Perspective?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Thulani Andrew Chauke ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Gender Based

This study focused on the expertise of youth workers in preventing violent acts with special focus on young women. A qualitative research approach was employed in this study. Ten youth workers were purposefully sampled to participate in this study. An unstructured interview schedule was also used to gather data. An exploratory research design was used to explore the experience of the participants. Data were analysed using thematic coding. Violence against young women in South Africa is a widespread problem that affect young women’s capabilities. South Africa is also facing a high prevalence of gang rape and young women are the most affected group. The findings reflect that youth workers prevent violence against young women by offering young people, both male and female, the following interventions: building youth self-esteem, health education and empowerment, soft skills programmes and building youth resilience. The study recommends that the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities establish a funding directorate that will focus on funding youth workers led non-profit organisations (NPOs) that have holistic youth programmes that mainly address violence against young women and social behaviour change programmes among young men.

scholarly journals Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the Wake of the Must Fall Movements: Mutual Disruption through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
South African ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
South Africans ◽  
South African School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Gender Based

The recent Must Fall movements shone a light on how South African universities are exclusionary spaces in many respects. In addition to the focus on racial, financial, and epistemological exclusions, the movements also highlighted how gender and sexual minorities are marginalised in university curricula and spaces. In the wake of these movements, I taught a range of courses dealing with gender and sexuality to pre-service teachers at a South African university. Using an autoethnographic approach, I recount some of the challenges I faced in teaching subject matter that many South Africans consider controversial. Students often relied on simplistic discourses of culture and religion to voice resistance to my courses and to “disrupt” my classes, while the subject matter simultaneously disrupted their deeply held concepts of identity. These moments of disruption from students, while largely intended as resistance, offered considerable pedagogical value, especially when viewed through the lens of critical pedagogy that informs my teaching approach. In this article, I use autoethnographic reflections to describe some of these moments of mutual disruption. I examine how the discussions with students have shifted after the Must Fall movements, linking the philosophy and some of the events of the movements to the ways that students are engaging differently. I argue that these pre-service teachers also hold the potential to disrupt discourses of queerphobia, gender-based violence and HIV in the South African school system. Additionally, I contend that gender and sexuality diversity deserve greater focus in teacher education in order to create critical thinking spaces that can foster reflective capacities in teachers around how they relate to learners who are gender and sexual minorities.

scholarly journals The Problem of Domestic Violence Against Women in Russia and Possible Solutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Irina Vladimirovna Soshnikova
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Based

The paper analyzes the social and legal aspects of the problem of domestic violence against women in Russia. The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that causes or is likely to cause physical, sexual or psy-chological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary depriva-tion of liberty, whether in public or private life”. The victim characteristics of women and their social vul-nerability are analyzed. Negative stereotypes about violence against women in the family are empha-sized. The main differences between violence against strangers and domestic violence are re-vealed. A set of measures has been developed to solve the problem of domestic violence.

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