scholarly journals Girls and Violence: The Case for a Feminist Theory of Female Violence

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Female Violence ◽  
Feminist Ideology ◽  
Feminist Criminology ◽  
Victims Of Violence

Rises recorded for girls’ violence in countries like Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States have been hotly contested. One view is these rising rates of violence are an artefact of new forms of policy, policing, criminalisation and social control over young women. Another view is that young women may indeed have become more violent as they have increasingly participated in youth subcultural activities involving gangs and drugs, and cyber-cultural activities that incite and reward girls’ violence. Any comprehensive explanation will need to address how a complex interplay of cultural, social, behavioural, and policy responses contribute to these rises. This article argues that there is no singular cause, explanation or theory that accounts for the rises in adolescent female violence, and that many of the simple explanations circulating in popular culture are driven by an anti-feminist ideology. By concentrating on females as victims of violence and very rarely as perpetrators, feminist criminology has for the most part ducked the thorny issue of female violence, leaving a discursive space for anti-feminist sentiment to reign. The article concludes by arguing the case for developing a feminist theory of female violence.

Victims of Violence in Fiji

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saxby Pridmore ◽  
Kim Ryan ◽  
Leigh Blizzard
Keyword(s):  
Racial Differences ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Fatal Injury ◽  
Female Violence ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Victims Of Violence

Objective: The aim of the paper is to examine the statistics for violence performed by self or others in Fiji during the period 1969–1989 in the following sub-classifications: (1) fatal vs non-fatal; (2) Fijian vs Indian; and (3) male vs female. Method: Crude rates per 100,000 were determined and the data sets were statistically examined. Results: (1) Violence by self, which includes suicide and non-fatal injury by self, has significantly increased; (2) Indian violence by self has increased in both males and females; (3) suicide is 4 times more common than homicide, whereas non-fatal injury by others is 4 times more common than non-fatal injury by self; (4) non-fatal injury by self is 8 times more common than suicide, whereas non-fatal injury by others is over 100 times more common than homicide; (5) Indian violence by self is 6 times more common than Fijian violence by self, whereas Fijians experience violence by others 2.5 times more commonly than Indians; (6) female violence by self is 1.5 times more common than male violence by self, whereas male violence by others is 3 times more common than female violence by others; (7) the rates of suicide and homicide are low by international standards; and (8) Fijian violence by self is particularly low, but consistent with the low suicide rate of the indigenous populations in surrounding geographical regions. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that racial differences in violence are likely to be due to cultural factors.

11. Gender and feminist criminology

Criminology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Ugwudike
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Female Crime ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Criminology ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Gender And Crime ◽  
Criminological Theories ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

This chapter examines the origins, definitions, and principles of feminist criminology. It begins with a discussion of the main theoretical traditions that underpin feminist criminology, namely liberal feminist theory, radical feminist theory, Marxist feminist theory, and socialist feminist theory. It then considers feminist epistemologies such as feminist empiricism, standpoint feminism, and postmodern feminism, as well as the intersections between gender and other structures of disadvantage. It also evaluates the interrelationships between gender and crime by addressing feminist explanations of female crime and masculinities studies of male crime, along with the role of gender in the criminal justice system. The chapter concludes by analysing feminist criminologists' criticisms of what they describe as the androcentricism of mainstream criminological theories as well as some of the key criticisms against feminist perspectives on gender and crime.

Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl

Noir Affect ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 197-221
Author(s):  
Pamela Thoma
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Young Women ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
A Site

This chapter explores a surprising shift that has occurred in postfeminist popular culture and more specifically “chick culture” in the wake of the global economic crisis. Chick noir forms itself in opposition to those two standbys of twenty-first-century U.S culture, chick lit and the chick flick. If these latter genres perform a humorous remodelling of romance as the “happy object” around which young women should orient self-making or self-improvement projects for the promise of a good life and future feelings of happiness, chick noir has emerged across popular culture to chronicle widespread economic hardship and social decline under neoliberalism. Chick noir narratives are driven by negative affect and deal in the dark side of relationships, domesticity, and the public sphere for women. The chapter takes Gone Girl as its focus. This chapter pays particular attention to ways in which both texts shine a light on modern surveillance culture to explore the textual production of empathy and coercion and the ways in which these texts imagine femininity as a site of surveillance. What emerges is a form of noir affect that dramatizes the absolute lack of a stable or noncontradictory space for the contemporary female subject.

Making Gender-Responsive Programming More Queer Responsive

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay L. Kahle ◽  
Jill Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Feminist Criminology ◽  
The Creation

The emergence of feminist criminology several decades ago heralded the creation of theoretical and justice-involved spaces that are specifically centered and tailored to the unique needs of women. More specifically, this shift turned attention to issues that weren’t typically discussed, for example, female victims and offenders, male battery, and sexual assault, as well as sexual and familial violence. One of the greatest contributions made by feminist criminology is gender-responsive programming, which recognizes that unique “pathways to delinquency” exist for girls and that these pathways often involve trauma and abuse. As a result, this type of programming attends to the specific needs of girls and young women, as they differ from those of boys and young men. Although research shows that these programs work to improve the lives of girls, they often overlook how sexual orientation—as it intersects with gender—often compounds such pathways altogether.

scholarly journals ‘A Shocking State of Domestic Unhappiness’: Male Victims of Female Violence and the Courts in Late Nineteenth Century Stafford

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Turner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Violence ◽  
The Press ◽  
Female Perpetrator ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Domestic Setting

Instances where men were the victims of female violence in the past are very difficult to explore, especially when the violence took place in a domestic setting. There is now a notable body of work on violence in the nineteenth century but none that looks specifically at male victims of violence where there was a female perpetrator, and their treatment by the courts. This article goes some way in filling that gap by using data collected in researching female offenders at the end of the nineteenth century in Stafford. It argues that, as with violence where there was a female victim and female perpetrator, the courts and the press were similarly unconcerned and somewhat dismissive of female violence towards men in a domestic setting, thus being unsympathetic towards male victims of female violence.

Finding Agreement among Women on Gender Issues

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Jensen ◽  
Robert Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
San Luis

This study was done to identify areas of agreement on gender issues. The sample of 161 students attended California State University at San Luis Obispo and 27 nonuniversity students were friends. Among university students, 112 were women, 49 were men. A questionnaire asked respondents to indicate agreement on the issues of equal opportunity, sex differences, tactics of social change, education, protectionism, sexuality, family, and sexual standards for women. Agreement was high among different groups, men and women, students and nonstudents, old and young women, and denominational affiliations. The results were discussed in terms of building feminist theory and evaluating social policy on areas of agreement as depicted in this sample.

Trouble in the Home, and First Contact with the Criminal Justice System

Caught Up ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Flores
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
System P ◽  
Feminist Criminology ◽  
Gender And Crime ◽  
First Contact

In this chapter, I draw on feminist criminology and research on gender and crime to demonstrate how abuse and neglect in the home led the young women in my study to their first contact with the criminal justice system. I pay attention to how home instability is shaped by gendered, racialized, and class-specific challenges. First, I discuss the multiple types of abuse girls experience in the home. This mistreatment led the young women in my study to begin dating at an early age; this new behavior resulted in more abuse at the hands of family members, who viewed their behavior as inappropriate and a violation of “proper” behavior for young Latinas. As this abuse continued, most of the young women in my study began using controlled substances. Soon, they ran away from home. Once on the street, they experienced a new set of challenges, which included finding housing, staying safe, and avoiding physical and sexual abuse. By this point their initial drug use had usually turned into full-blown drug addiction. Drug use and abuse were key factors contributing to first girls’ arrest.

Female violence victims` anxiety and styles of communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Raisa Cerlat ◽  
◽  
Olga Eremciuc ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Victims ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Statistical Comparison ◽  
Female Violence ◽  
Victims Of Violence

The article presents an analysis of the types of anxiety specific to women victims of violence. To highlight the peculiarities of anxiety, a statistical comparison is made with the results obtained by another group of women, who were not subjected to violence. Likewise, the communication skills characteristic of victimized women and their specific communication styles are presented.

(Re)writing, (Re)righting, (Re)riteing Hupa Womanhood

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Abel Gomez
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Northern California ◽  
Native Women

In We Are Dancing For You, Risling Baldy explores the meaning and process of the revival of the Ch'ilwa:l, the Flower Dance, a coming-of-age ceremony for women of her tribe. The text opens with an epigraph from Lois Risling, a Hupa medicine woman and the author's mother, "The Flower Dance is a dance that I wish all young women could have. . . .[This dance] does heal. That kind of intensive trauma where women have been abused and mutilated both spiritually and emotionally and physically." (ix). These words offer a sense of what is at stake in this text. As Risling Baldy explains, Native women in what is now known as California were targets of strategic attacks of genocide by settler colonial governments through rape, murder, missionization, boarding schools, and assimilation. Such attacks worked to erase Native women's leadership, power, and ceremonial traditions. We can see the legacy of similar acts of violence in the ongoing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two spirits across North America. This work is personal, too, as Risling Baldy is a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in northern California.1 She reflects on her own relationship as scholar and participant of the revitalization of this dance. Risling Baldy's text is particularly interesting in the nuanced ways she links the revival of this ceremony to Hupa cosmology, feminist theory, critiques of menstrual "taboos," embodiment, and decolonial futurity.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document