scholarly journals Invalidation: A Neglected Dimension of Gender-based Violence and Inequality

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Salter
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

This article proposes that invalidation is a pervasive manifestation of gender relations as expressed through strategies of minimisation, disbelief and denial. Invalidation is embedded within interpersonal and institutionalised arrangements and interactions. It is a constitute element of gender-based violence as well as a socio-political condition that enables gender-based violence. Invalidation serves to inscribe gender relations upon the bodies of women through the mental and physical health deficits of the gender-based violence that it enables and facilitates, as well as through the denial of testimonial legitimacy and the consequent withholding of resources, support and services.

Measuring the Effects of the Shape Your Life Project on the Mental and Physical Health Outcomes of Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110389
Author(s):  
Kimberly L. Gammage ◽  
Cathy van Ingen ◽  
Kirina Angrish
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Physical Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Little is known regarding the types of physical activity interventions most effective in supporting the mental and physical health of woman-identified survivors of gender-based violence. This study measured the experiences of 56 participants who participated in a 14-week trauma-informed, noncontact boxing program once per week for 90 min. Participants completed measures of health-related outcomes including physical and mental health, quality of life, mastery, resilience, self-esteem, physical self-efficacy, social conflict, and financial strain at baseline, program midpoint, and program end. Analyses of variance showed significant improvements for all indicators measured except financial strain, demonstrating viability and effectiveness of this program.

scholarly journals Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110369
Author(s):  
Maddalena Cannito ◽  
Eugenia Mercuri
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Informal Network ◽  
New Form ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

In the last few years, the informal network – called manosphere – of forums, websites and blogs, where commentators are mainly men and focus on issues relating to masculinity, has been gaining members and visibility. The article’s objective is to explore the politics of fatherhood and masculinity that an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum engages in to assess whether the claims for fathers’ rights are a move towards a new form of involved fatherhood or if they are only useful to rebuild a solid traditional male identity. By conducting an explorative content analysis on their Facebook group and page, we found that fatherhood is an ‘empty box’ and that fathers’ rights are used in a strategic way to justify hegemonic masculinity, gender-based violence, as well as antifeminist and antifeminine ideas, and to promote political advocacy cooperating with right-wing parties. The article also reflects on the connections between hegemony and power using the concept of hybrid masculinities.

scholarly journals Biologism and Gender-based Violence in Contemporary Africa: Articulating a Panacea from Traditional Yorùbá Sexuality

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Babajide Olugbenga Dasaolu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Biologism is a theoretical conjecture which renders the ‘nature’ of persons in bodily processes and physical manifestations. Whilst dauntless scholarly contentions in the Western tradition have served sharply to indicate the flaws and limits of biologism, it is disturbing that biologism has become a dominant framework for the articulation of gender relations among contemporary Africans. This outlook derives perhaps, from the overwhelming influence wielded by Christianity and Islam on the minds of the contemporary African. However, a critical scrutiny of these religions reveals that not only do they endorse biologism but that they are replete with instances and verses in their scriptures that promote gender-based violence and patriarchy. In the face of these propositions, this research portends to revive the traditional Yorùbá account of gender relations as a plausible instance of ideas that are originally African, and capable of use for surmounting contemporary challenges. As a consequence, the study contextualizes the discourse within traditional Yorùbá culture relying on the Ifá corpus. It affirms that biologism had no apologists among the traditional Yorùbá. It further avers that gender construction among the traditional people is neither antagonistic nor hegemonic but flexible and complimentary. Hence, the recommendation that this indigenous perception be reinvigorated in contemporaneous times to check the discrimination and subordination of women and homosexuals in Africa is the onus of this drudgery

Towards Nonviolent Gender Relations in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-124
Author(s):  
Effiong Joseph Udo ◽  
John Orioha
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Social Intercourse

Despite global efforts, gender-based violence continues to be witnessed in varying degrees around the world. The use of dialogue as an effective tool in mitigating violence and conflict situations around the world provides an inspiration to conceive the need to extend the scope of dialogue to the domain of male-female relationship, which is fast becoming too complex, sensitive, strained, and tempestuous. In this study, the relevance of dialogue for a violent-free culture in the context of gender relations is interrogated. This study maintains that a dialogic mode of male-female relationship would go a long way to mitigate the persistent cases of gender-based violence. In an exploratory approach, Leonard Swidler's understanding and principles of dialogue are used as a framework to demonstrate what an inter-gender dialogue would look like. It concludes that, as dialogue offers an interactive framework for mutual understanding of one another, an inter-gender dialogue is constitutive of the social intercourse, which the very concept of dialogue represents.

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