Gender-Based Violence in the Global South

This book amplifies the different voices and experiences of those facing gender-based violence (GBV) in the Global South. It explores the localised ways in which marginalised individuals design modes of coping with and address GBV, including cultural interpretations, and artistic and faith-based expressions. The book examines GBV triggers, prevalence, and societal impacts while referring to community, national, and regional mobilisation to deal with the phenomenon in its various manifestations, including physical, psychological, political, domestic, and public violence. It explores issues related to women's negotiations with the patriarchal underpinnings of GBV; the role of the law and history in the perpetuation of GBV; the complementary role of culture and faith to legal protection against GBV, and access to justice for women and girls. In doing so, the book exposes understandings and expressions of GBV, as well as methodologies and indigenous initiatives to prevent it through local viable solutions. The book thus challenges the normalisation of GBV in the Global South. Providing concrete and culturally relevant suggestions for challenging ingrained models of gender understandings of violence in the Global South, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Development Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Violence and Abuse Studies, Human Rights, Criminal Law, and Socio-Legal Studies.

Ramona Biholar is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. Her teaching, research, and publications intersect in the areas of international human rights law, gender and the law, the right to development, and Caribbean reparations. She has over ten years of experience in government and civil society human rights capacity building. Dacia L. Leslie has researched and published widely in the last six years on tertiary crime prevention and social justice. She is the 2022 UWI Mona/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Award recipient, a Commonwealth Scholar, Canada-CARICOM Scholar, and a Research Associate of the Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island.

1: Explorations of Gender-Based Violence in the Global South: Introduction I. Constructions of Masculinity and the Perpetration of Gender-Based Violence 2: Stories of Masculinity and Violence of Male Homicide Perpetrators in Argentina 3: Constructing South African Juvenile Sexual Offenders: An Analysis of How Juvenile Sexual Offences are Shaped by Sexual Violence and Childhood Discourses II. Artistic Interpretations of Gender-Based Violence Victimisation and Perpetration 4: The Don as Pawn: Violence and Women's Patriarchal Bargain in King of Boys 5: 'Written Warnings': Literary Representations of Caribbean Female Experiences with Gender-Based Violence in Anglophone Caribbean Female-Authored Poetry III. State Responses to Women's Resistance and Mobilisation against Gender-Based Violence 6: Between Shutdown and Lockdown-Defeating Gender-Based Violence: Lessons from South Africa 7: Resistance to Political Violence Against Women in Turkey: The Istanbul Convention Saves Lives IV. Legal and Policy Mechanisms to Address Gender-Based Violence and Ensure Access to Justice 8: Protection and Access to Justice of Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Mexico: An Institutional Critique 9: Brazilian Responses to Gender-Based Violence in a Global Perspective: Designing Intersectional Policies to Protect and Empower Women and Girls 10: Intimate Partner Violence and Its Effects on Women's Health in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname: The Mitigating Role of Educational Attainment and Socioeconomic Status V. Engaging Cultural and Religious Values for Meaningful Social Transformations and Institutional Frameworks to Address GBV 11: From Act to Action: Engaging with Culture and Faith to End Domestic Violence in the Pacific 12: Gender and Enforcement: The Worldviews of VAWC Desk officers as Frontline Service Providers in the Anti-Violence Against Women Campaign in the Philippines GBV in the Global South: Triggers, Prevalence, Societal Impacts and Future Direction