Facing dominant master narratives on gender and sexuality: Identity reconstruction of women in situations of inequality

2021 ◽  
pp. 175069802110372
Author(s):  
Manuel L de la Mata ◽  
María Jesús Cala ◽  
Arianna Sala
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Lesbian Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Master Narratives ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Voice And Silence

The article is based on a conception of identity and self as a situated narrative construction in which memory plays a central role. To construct self-narratives, individuals internalise cultural master narratives in specific socio-cultural settings. For that reason, the analysis of self-identity needs to go beyond the individual to integrate interpersonal and socio-cultural levels, as well. Starting from this theoretical perspective, two studies of identity reconstruction of women facing situations of inequality and violence (lesbian women and women after gender-based violence) in Spain were examined. These two groups were confronted with gendered master narratives that place women in a subordinate situation. The two studies applied a similar methodology, based on the use of Bruner’s self-indicators. The analysis of the cases was focused on three issues: the dynamics of master versus alternative narratives in identity (re)construction and their relation to social reproduction and change, the need to consider the three levels of analysis (socio-cultural, interpersonal and individual) and the role of voice and silence in these processes. Finally, the involvement or memory in identity reconstruction was considered.

scholarly journals Organisational Characteristics That Facilitate Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in Higher Education?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Pat O’Connor ◽  
Margaret Hodgins ◽  
Dorian R. Woods ◽  
Elisa Wallwaey ◽  
Rachel Palmen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Related Phenomenon ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Organisational Level

Gender-based violence and sexual harassment (GBVH) by and towards academics and students has been under-theorised at an organisational level in higher education institutions (HEIs). The methodology involves a critical review of the literature on GBVH and organizational responses to it, locating it in the context of an analysis of organizational power. The theoretical perspective involves a focus on power and workplace bullying. It identifies three power-related characteristics of academic environments which it is suggested facilitate GBVH: their male-dominant hierarchical character; their neoliberal managerialist ethos and gender/intersectional incompetent leadership which perpetuates male entitlement and toxic masculinities. These characteristics also inhibit tackling GBVH by depicting it as an individual problem, encouraging informal coping and militating against the prosecution of perpetrators. Initiating a discussion and action at organizational and state levels about GBVH as a power-related phenomenon, challenging the dominant neo-liberal ethos and the hierarchical character of HEIs, as well as reducing their male dominance and increasing the gender competence of those in positions of power are seen as initial steps in tackling the problem.

scholarly journals THE SOLVING OF PREVENTION AND OPPOSITION PROBLEM OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Olha Hurenko ◽  
Nataliia Matseiko
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Egalitarian Attitudes

The concept of «gender-based violence» essence, which recognized as an extreme manifestation of the individual rights and freedoms violation and as reproduction mechanism of society gender system, which based on uneven powerful relationships between women and men in the society and characterized by the egalitarian attitudes absence has been revealed in the article. Manifestation features of the phenomena and their varieties have been outlined. The fundamental difference between the concepts «gender-based violence», «domestic violence» has been defined. The Ukraine state social politics of gender-based violence prevention and opposition based on international and national legal framework has been analyzed. The current information about trends of this negative phenomenon spread within the country, including considering the consequences of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine has been listed.  Problems and prospects of the struggle with gender-based violence in Ukraine in the context of social work have been defined. And priority among which are improvement of reaction measures at the stages of violence facts detection and further support to the victim or the offender; setting-up systematic correctional work with perpetrators of violence or with perpetrators belonging to a risk group for its commission, the interdepartmental interaction of subjects of prevention and opposition this phenomenon; activating the system of preventive influences to the younger generation's consciousness and society in general to the direction of tolerance, mutual respect, opposit to gender role attitudes and stereotypes.

ECONOMIC VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY: FORMS, CONSEQUENCES, PREVENTION

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Tamara K. Rostovskaya ◽  
◽  
Natal’ya A. Bezverbnaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Economic Deprivation ◽  
Economic Violence ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual

Research on gender-based violence focuses on levels of physical, sexualized, and psychological impact. This article is devoted to one of the most latent forms of violence — economic, faced by members of a multi-generational family: spouses, children, parents, grandparents. Attention is drawn to the fact that it is women who are more susceptible to various forms of economic deprivation. The authors noted that economic violence is: a restriction in access to financial resources; control over access to health care, employment, education; exclusion or complete exclusion from the financial decision-making process; discrimination in the procedure of inheritance, obtaining property rights, restriction or prohibition of the use of movable and immovable property. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the consequences of economic violence for different sectors of the economy. It is revealed that the consequence of economic violence and economic deprivation can be: the aggravation of poverty, the inability to obtain education, difficulties in socialization and realization of the individual in the professional sphere. The article also suggests indicators of economic violence. Economic violence creates a risk of physical violence, promotes sexual exploitation, and trafficking.

Engaging Men and Boys in Preventing Gender-based Violence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Tolman ◽  
Tova B. Walsh ◽  
Bethsaida Nieves
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Online Programs ◽  
Engaging Men ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual

This chapter focuses on efforts to engage men and boys in preventing gender-based violence (GBV). We examine violence prevention efforts at the individual, family, community, and global levels. We highlight a range of innovative approaches from around the world, including restorative justice practices, online programs, culturally focused counseling, working with fathers and their children to recognize and prevent intergenerational violence, enhancing men’s capacity to support their pregnant partners, and involving men as allies in the effort to prevent violence against women.

scholarly journals When the scars begin to heal: narratives of obstetric violence in Chiapas, Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Murray de Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Implications ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Obstetric Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how obstetric violence is embodied and understood by the women who experience it, how it impacts on maternal subjectivity and what the long-term health implications may be. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a qualitative, non-clinical analysis of women’s experiences of obstetric violence in Mexico. Data sources are derived from ethnographic interviews, participant observation and an extensive revision of public reports and policy. Findings Local ideas and beliefs over what one must endure to become a “good mother” contribute to how acts of obstetric violence are treated and interpreted by professionals, the community and the individual alike. The ways in which women interpret violence in relation to the wider context of their everyday lives have significant implications for evaluating the effectiveness of approaches to reproductive and maternal health. Social implications Situating women’s narratives within an ecological framework of gender-based violence reveals not only the conditions under which obstetric violations occur, but also the forms of resilience and coping mechanisms that women develop. This provides a deeper understanding for the long-term health implications of iatrogenic trauma during pregnancy and birth. Originality/value This paper discusses obstetric violence from the perspective of women who experience it and contextualises it within the wider life course approach to personhood and maternal transformation.

scholarly journals A Novel Model for Generating Creative, Community-Responsive Interventions to Reduce Gender-Based Violence on College Campuses

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7933
Author(s):  
Sophia Graham ◽  
Caroline Zha ◽  
Abby King ◽  
Ann Banchoff ◽  
Clea Sarnquist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Community Factors ◽  
Prevention Interventions ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual

Currently, the most successful prevention interventions against sexual violence (SV) on United States college campuses target modifications at the individual and interpersonal levels. Community-level interventions have been under-developed for college campuses. To address this gap, we employ a citizen science model for understanding campus community factors affecting SV risk. The model, called Our Voice, starts by engaging groups of college students to collect data in their own communities, identifying factors they view as increasing the risk of SV. In facilitated meetings, participants then review and analyze their collective data and use it to generate actionable community-level solutions and advocate for them with local decision-makers. We share findings from a first-generation study of the Our Voice model applied to SV prevention on one college campus, and include recommendations for further research.

scholarly journals Concept and features of gender-based violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 224-230
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Rufanova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual

In the article the author has studied the concept of "gender-based violence" and described its features. She has made an analysis of legislative categories that reveal features of gender-based violence. Gender-based violence underlies global problems. This socially negative phenomenon covers all countries of the world. No country has been able to fully address gender-based violence because it has failed to achieve 100% gender equality. One of the most current trends in the development and protection of human rights on a global, global scale today is to ensure gender equality and prevent any violence based on gender. The author suggests gender-based violence to mean a socially negative act (action or inaction) of a person / group of persons caused by the sexuality of a person / group of persons, which consists in causing physical, mental, sexual, economic school or threat of their use and can be committed in private and public areas. The most significant signs of gender-based violence are: committed in the form of actions or omissions; affects different categories of the population through their gender (women, men, people who have changed sex, persons of different sexual orientations), is a violation of the rights, freedoms, capabili-ties of the person and their guarantees, leads to restrictions on recognition, implementation or use rights, freedoms and opportunities; associated with physical, mental, sexual, economic violence, or the threat of its use, which causes harm to health; follows from the unequal power relations between men and women; based on outdated ideas and stereotypes about the social roles and functions of the individual; committed in the private and public spheres; causes deterioration of the position of the person in society; undermines the dignity of the person; undermines the authority, security, economic and social stability of the nation on a national and global scale.

COVID-19 feminist framework and biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective for social workers and mental health practitioners to manage violence, abuse, and trauma against children, women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ during and post-COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110671
Author(s):  
Sonia Mukhtar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Spiritual Perspective ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

This article explains the integrated implementation of a COVID-19 Feminist Framework (CFF) and biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective (BPSS-P) on the inclusive equitability of social service providers, practitioners, and policy-developers on global platforms. Mechanisms of CFF and BPSS-P entail the process to address/mitigate institutional inequities, mental health issues, violation of human rights, race/sex/gender-based violence, abuse, and trauma amid COVID-19. This discourse is about raising consciousness, collective liberation, wellbeing, and equality for women, children, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and gender-diverse people. This article further discusses social workers and mental health practitioners’ uniqueness for short-term and long-term support for emotional, cognitive-behavioral, and psychosocial repercussions on the individual and community levels.

scholarly journals Are We Passing on Violence to the Next Generation?: Gender Norms and Gender-based Violence Attitudes among Early Adolescents in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Gusti Agung Agus Mahendra ◽  
Anggriyani Wahyu Pinandari ◽  
Ifta Choiriyah ◽  
Siswanto Agus Wilopo
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

Intensification of gender norms during puberty affects adolescents’ perceptions and behavior related to violence. This study examined the association between gender norms and gender-based violence (GBV) among early adolescents considering socio-ecological variables using cross-sectional data from 3,618 Indonesian Global Early Adolescent Study pupils. Chi-square tests with simple and multiple logistic regression analyses examined how different factors' levels predict GBV. Among boys, GBV attitudes were found high (53%). Furthermore, they also had high heteronormative expectations, threatened feelings, experiences of violence, porn access, and 5+ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Logistic regression results revealed that adolescent boys having one or two scores of gender norms at the above-median are 1.3 times more likely to commit GBV and even 2.2 times higher if all were above median [AOR(CI) =1.3(1.1-1.6); 2.2(1.7-2.8)], respectively. Boys, having 5+ ACEs, and stronger endorsement on heteronormative relationships were also more likely to commit GBV [AOR(CI) =1.5(1.3-1.7); 1.5(1.2-1.9); 1.5 (1.3-1.7)], respectively. This research concluded that unequal gender norms intensified during puberty strongly correlate to attitudes towards GBV among early adolescents. Strengthening the individual aspects by providing a more conducive environment, such as comprehensive sexual education at school, is essential to prevent GBV.

scholarly journals Covid-19 and feminism in the Global South: Challenges, initiatives and dilemmas

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadje Al-Ali
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Drastic Increase ◽  
Gender Based

The article addresses the gendered implications of Covid-19 in the Global South by paying attention to the intersectional pre-existing inequalities that have given rise to specific risks and vulnerabilities. It explores various aspects of the pandemic-induced ‘crisis of social reproduction’ that affects women as the main caregivers as well as addressing the drastic increase of various forms of gender-based violence. Both, in addition to growing poverty and severely limited access to resources and health services, are particularly devastating in marginalized and vulnerable communities in the Global South. The article looks at specific regions and countries to illustrate wider challenges faced by LGBTQ populations, ethnic minorities, domestic workers, migrants and sex workers. Against the background of these gendered intersectional challenges, the article then moves to discuss feminist initiatives and mobilizations to deal with the crisis in specific local contexts as well as nationally, regionally and transnationally. It concludes by highlighting a number of visions, tensions and dilemmas faced by feminists in the Global South that will need to be taken into consideration in terms of transnational feminist solidarities.

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