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... as a starting point, the program then examines underlying assumptions within the following framework: Therefore, the program’s theory of change supposes that: If the drivers of school related gender based violence (SRGBV) are identified and used to design and implement a mix of strategies that constitute...

...This chapter provides a context for the span of behaviours falling within the definition of gender-based violence, which range from the mundane ( Brown & Walklate, 2011 ) through to rape and homicide. By introducing the domestic abuse intervention programme (DAIP) (also known as the Duluth...

...This chapter provides an overview of the policy landscape on gender-based violence and online abuse, assessing the numerous developments that have been proposed in this area. The sporadic nature of policymaking is illustrated, with a discussion of the consequences of the lack of a comprehensive...

... public sphere misogyny threat structural change policy Online Safety Act (2023) Introduction The aim of the empirical research underpinning this book was to investigate the relationship between the online abuse experienced by women employed in public facing occupations and gender-based violence...

...Digital storytelling gender-based violence social media narrative theory feminism Tanzania Introduction Storytelling comes naturally to humans ( Fisher, 1984 ). Storytelling to make sense of the world and transmit information to future generations is one of the earliest forms of social...

...YouTube videos gender-based violence social inclusion therapy survivors Introduction Research has well established that YouTube is associated with certain benefits for survivors of GBV . On the one hand, YouTube affords some intimacy to vulnerable users through digital storytelling...

...Gender-based violence community media social justice women communication Tanzania Introduction The UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee Task Force on Gender and Humanitarian Assistance (2005) defines GBV as any act committed against a person’s will based on socially ascribed gender...

... education may provide tools and strategies to tackle and prevent online gender-based violence. Social platforms regulation governance gender-based online violence digital literacy Introduction The recent warning by the US Surgeon General about the potential risks of social media on the mental health...

...Abstract This chapter presents a genderwashing critique of UK historic universities. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it conceptualizes genderwashing and gender-based violence (GBV). Underpinned by feminist subjectivity, raising consciousness to women's situated lived experiences, examples...

... circumstances of women and girls in the understudied state, thereby espousing women and girls to dangerous attacks and hard living. Gender violence sexual security challenges Zamfara Northwest Nigeria List of Abbreviations Background Gender-based violence (GBV) is any form of the destructive act...

... ). Such framing, as philosopher Celia Amorós later argued, prevented these cases from being counted and conceptualised as a specific form of systemic violence. It was only after Orantes’s death that the concept of gender-based violence – coined by feminist movements – began to enter public discourse and catalyse...

... ), 618 – 636 . Avramopoulou , E. ( 2025 ). Burning issues, burned subjects: Cruel temporalities in the field of gender-based violence . Journal of Greek Media & Culture , 11 ( 1 ), 71 – 87 . Beausoleil , E. ( 2021 ). Listening to claims of structural injustice...

... as central to contemporary feminist responses to femicide and gender-based violence. Rather than treating music as mere cultural expression, the book approaches it as a political and ethical practice that shapes how violence is recognised and resisted. Shared Analytical Framework A key contribution across...

...Abstract This introductory chapter situates Voices of Resistance: Music, Femicide, and Gender Justice in Southern Europe within a comparative and transnational framework, examining how music in Spain and Greece has become a vital feminist response to femicide and gender-based violence...

...While it is true that gender-based violence is most commonly associated with domestic problems, relationship conflicts, or feminicides, the workplace is also a context where violence manifests itself. Since women have entered the labour market and demanded their place within society, society has...

... ). ‘Obstetric violence’, ‘mistreatment’ and ‘disrespect and abuse’ are used interchangeably in the literature. The term obstetric violence, coined by Latin American activists in the early twenty-first century, aims to address the structural dimensions of the phenomenon, a manifestation of gender-based violence...

... the law reinforces a patriarchal realism that treats violence against women as naturalised and private, rather than political and systemic ( Ertürk, 2009 ). The Greek state has taken steps towards addressing domestic and gender-based violence, most notably through the ratification of the Istanbul...

.... Conclusion and Recommendation Gender-based violence violates human rights worldwide. Their country is the safest for women. All ethnic, racial, social, and national women are affected. It's a serious issue that threatens one woman's life and impacts all socioeconomic and educational levels. This strategy...

.... ( 2015 ). Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics . Oxford University Press . Papagiannopoulou , M. ( 2022 ). Gender-based violence in the pandemic period . Centre for Gender Studies . Radford , J. , & Russell , D. (Eds). ( 1992 ). Femicide: The politics...