scholarly journals Violence against women: theoretical reflections

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 950-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leticia Casique Casique ◽  
Antonia Regina Ferreira Furegato
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Women Elderly ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Environment Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Economic Violence ◽  
Violent Acts

Violence appears in different forms and circumstances and involves distinct kinds of violent acts against children, women, elderly and other defenseless persons. This serious problem, which degrades women's integrity, is denoted by terms like domestic violence, gender violence and violence against women. Gender violence can appear as physical, psychological, sexual, economic violence, as well as violence at work. Violence against women committed by their intimate partners can be analyzed through the Ecological Model, which explains the close relation between individuals and their environment. Factors influencing people's behavior towards this violence should be analyzed with a view to establishing help programs.

A therapeutic “innovation”…

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1673-1673
Author(s):  
A. Matos-Pires ◽  
F. Salazar-Garcia ◽  
E. Monteiro ◽  
D. Estevens
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Multiple Injuries ◽  
Frontal Lesion

Domestic violence, particularly violence against women, is a scourge that has killed this year in Portugal more than twenty women.Our aim is to present a case study on the issue of gender violence on a 49 years old woman with a prior diagnosis of bipolar disorder and its (terrible) consequences.The multiple injuries sustained over several years “treated” the bipolar disorder. Apart from a frontal lesion on CT there is now a set of neurological and psychiatric symptoms compatible with a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) “boxer's dementia” like.

Changing Contours of Fiscal Policy and Budgets to Address Violence against Women

2019 ◽  
pp. 361-393
Author(s):  
Kanika Kaul
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Response Mechanism ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
State Budgets

Recent years have witnessed important changes in planning and budgetary processes in the country. The constitution of NITI Aayog in place of the Planning Commission, restructuring of the Union Budget following the Union Government’s acceptance of the 14th Finance Commission recommendations and measures undertaken for rationalisation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes have marked gender implications. They also have a bearing on public financing of government programmes in a range of sectors, including those meant to address violence against women. The analysis of schemes to address violence against women by state governments in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand presented in the chapter, reflects low priority towards the issue in the state budgets, indicating that the importance accorded to gender violence in policy discourse is yet to translate into budgetary priorities. The author concludes that budgetary dimensions of the state’s response to the issue require attention if we are to ensure a comprehensive response mechanism for women facing domestic violence.

Factors Influencing Domestic Violence Against Married Women in Bangladesh : Evidence From Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (Number 1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
F Alam ◽  
B U Khan ◽  
M Shakil ◽  
MS Laskar
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Suspected Case ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Children Ever Born ◽  
Source Of Information

Violence against women is a common and menacing phenomenon in Bangladesh-and domestic violence is the most common form which includes pushing, shaking or throwing of any objects, slapping, punching with fist or something harmful, kicking or dragging, trying of choke or burn, threatening with knife/gun or other weapon, twisting arm or pulling hair. In the study mean age of the respondents were 30.66 (±8.904) and 62.5% respondents lived in Rural areas where higher prevalence of abuse has been observed. The reasons mentioned through out the country for abuse were inconsequential and included failure to perform household work and care of children, economic problems, food crisis, refusal to bring dowry, disobeying husband/elder, unemployment status of husband, suspected case of infidelity etc. Factors influencing domestic violence were lack of education both in respondents or their spouse, lack of exposure to magazine or source of information, current married, large number of children ever born etc. The majority of abused women remained silent about their experience because of the high acceptance of violence within society, only a few shared the matter with neighbor, father/mother or other relatives. A very small proportion of women approached institutional sources for help. Interestingly, violence increased with membership of women in any non government organization or mother club or relating to any income generating process. It is furthermore disgraceful to find that the women with lower body mass index are the higher group of population who are the high-flying victims of violence. In rural or urban Bangladesh, women's physical, mental, social and economic circumstances may influence their risk of domestic violence in multifaceted and paradoxical ways. Therefore findings suggest discussing policy propositions to overcome current realities.

scholarly journals Violência contra a Mulher, Casas-Abrigo e Redes Sociais: Revisão Sistemática da Literatura

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 770-783
Author(s):  
Scheila Krenkel ◽  
Carmen Leontina Ojeda Ocampo Moré
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Violence

Resumo Este estudo teve como objetivo caracterizar a produção científica de artigos empíricos sobre casas-abrigo e redes sociais no contexto da violência contra a mulher. Buscaram-se artigos publicados entre 2004 e 2015, no Portal de Periódicos da Capes. Os descritores utilizados foram “shelter” e “social networks”, combinados com “violence against women” e suas variações: “domestic violence”/“gender violence”. De 1.536 estudos encontrados, 33 atenderam aos critérios de inclusão estabelecidos e foram organizados em duas categorias temáticas. Os resultados mostraram aspectos positivos da passagem das mulheres pela casa-abrigo, como o apoio oferecido pelos profissionais, além de aspectos dificultadores após a saída do local, principalmente em relação à geração de trabalho e renda. As redes sociais foram apontadas como um importante recurso no enfrentamento da violência, sobretudo pelo apoio da família de origem e das relações de amizade. Com base nos resultados e limitações apontados nos estudos, sugere-se o desenvolvimento de novas pesquisas que problematizem a interrelação das práticas profissionais realizadas em casas-abrigo e o acompanhamento das mulheres após saírem do local, assim como, aprofundar a análise dos vínculos afetivos que sustentam as funções desempenhadas pelos membros que constituem as redes sociais configuradas.

scholarly journals Domestic Violence and Patriarchy in Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şevket Ökten
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Violent Behaviors ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Family ◽  
Economic Violence

Violence against women being a global epidemic that kills tortures and maims women physically and psychologically. The most common and widespread form of the violence is domestic violence. Violent behaviors such as beating, pushing, slapping or throwing things by family members; sexual, emotional, economic violence against women in the home, within the family or in a relationship is considered as domestic violence. Domestic violence is common place in Turkey though majority of women do not justify its occurrences as indicated by different nationwide studies conducted in Turkey. Instead nearly half of women who were subjected to violence remained isolation and overwhelming majority of victims avoided to get help from status apparatus. This study attempts to find out that why nearly half of women who are subjected to physical violence in Turkey did not share their experiences of violence to anyone before these studies. This study regards the patriarchal system and practices as the obstruction which deter overwhelming majority of women who are subjected to physical violence to express their suffering and seek help from state apparatus

scholarly journals Primary Prevention Policies to Face Domestic Violence against Women: Lessons from Australia to Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Pierobom de Ávila ◽  
Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Prevention Policies ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women

This paper analyses the primary prevention policies in Australia to tackle domestic violence against women, at the national and state levels, as they relate to gender and other strengthening factors. It also discusses how these experiences are related to Brazilian policies. The article analyses the backlash in Brazil to the promotion of gender equality and indicates possible inspiration for policies related to reducing the strengthening factors of gender violence.

La Violencia contra la Mujer en la legislación nacional: Mirando hacia adentro: La violencia intrafamiliar. / Violence against women in national legistation: Looking inward: Domestic violence

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (09) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Macarena Car Silva
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Law

El presente artículo hace una breve revisión –desde la historia del derecho– de los esfuerzos que en materia legislativa ha hecho nuestro país por visibilizar la violencia de género desde el advenimiento de la democracia, haciendo hincapié en que el esfuerzo hecho ha tenido un éxito relativo en materia de violencia contra la mujer,y sólo en sus aspectos más íntimos de la vida. This article briefly reviews –from the perspective of the history of law– the efforts in legislation that our country has made to view gender violence since the advent of democracy, emphasizing that the effort has been relatively successful on violence against women, and onlyin their most intimate aspects of life.

scholarly journals Facing Domestic Violence Against Women in Brazil: Advances and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiago Pierobom De Avila
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Intimate Partner Homicide ◽  
Honor Killings ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women ◽  
Critical Overview

This article aims to offer a critical overview of the Brazilian legal framework for confronting domestic violence against women. Intimate partner homicides are epidemic in Brazil: there are four deaths of women per day. In 2006, the Maria da Penha Law (MPL) introduced integrated polices and transformed criminal procedures to deal with the complexities of gender violence. Reforms included the establishment of The House of Brazilian Women, women-only police stations, specialised courts, intervention orders, interdisciplinary experts, and perpetrator programs. In 2015, a new law created the crime of femicide, designed to prevent ‘honor killings’ defenses in cases of intimate partner homicide and to avoid impunity. Despite law reform, structuring and articulating the network of services remains a challenge. The MPL led to great social change in Brazil regarding awareness of the violence against women, facilitating a broader discussion about gender equality.

scholarly journals Violencia de género en el deporte (Gender violence in sport)

Retos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 808-817
Author(s):  
Zitlally Flores Fernandez ◽  
Brenda Fabiola Chávez Bermudez ◽  
Rafael Mier Cisneros ◽  
Karla Alejandra Obregón Avelar
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Economic Violence ◽  
Forms Of Violence

  La institución del deporte no sólo establece condiciones desiguales para hombres y mujeres, sino que también reproduce y genera formas específicas de violencia. El propósito de este trabajo es identificar las formas de violencia de género que están presentes en el ámbito deportivo y para ello, el estudio hace un análisis teórico para abordar los conceptos de violencia, género y violencia contra la mujer. Los resultados muestran varias manifestaciones de violencia simbólica, sexual y económica en el contexto deportivo. Se destaca la necesidad de implementar medidas específicas para prevenir y erradicar la violencia de género. Adicionalmente, describe algunos de los esfuerzos realizados que pueden servir de base para la implementación de políticas con perspectiva de género. Abstract. Sports institutions do not only establish unequal conditions for men and women but also reproduce and generate specific forms of violence. The purpose of this study is to identify the forms of gender violence that are present in the sports field. Through a theoretical approach, the study addresses the concepts of violence, gender, and violence against women. The results show several manifestations of symbolic, sexual, and economic violence in the sports context. It is outlined the need to implement specific measures to prevent and eradicate gender violence. Additionally, it describes some of the efforts made that can serve as a basis for the implementation of policies with a gender perspective.

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