Chapter 1: From Domestic Violence to War Crimes: The Political
Economy of Violence Against Women
Chapter 2: What Has Poverty Got to Do With It? Feminist Frameworks
for Analyzing Violence Against Women
Chapter 3: Losing Entitlement, Regaining Control: Masculinities and
Competitive Globalization
Chapter 4: Crossing Borders to Make Ends Meet: Sex Trafficking, the
Maid Trade, and Other Gendered Forms of Labor Exploitation
Chapter 5: New Spaces of Gender Violence: Economic Transition and
Trade
Chapter 6: Boom, Bust and Beating: International Financial
Institutions, Crises, and Violence against Women
Chapter 7: Old and New Tactics of War: Sexual Violence in Armed
Conflict
Chapter 8: Rebuilding With or Without Women? Gendered Violence in
Post-Conflict Peace and Reconstruction
Chapter 9: Who Suffers Most? Gendered Violence in Natural Disasters
and their Aftermath
Chapter 10: Researching Violence Against Women: The Point is to
Change it
Winner of the British International Studies Association's International Political Economy Group Book Prize
Jacqui True is Professor of Politics and international Relations at Monash University
"Jacqui True's The Political Economy of Violence draws from the
work of these brilliant women and brings a coherence of argument
which is compelling and which simply explains how it all works and
hence what we have to do to fix it." - Madeleine Rees, OBE,
Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom
"By bringing the political economy approach to her analysis, Jacqui
True has rightfully placed 'violence against women' within the web
of economic, social and political realms, demonstrating that the
problem is embedded in structured inequalities in relations of
production and reproduction. She demystifies the often
compartmentalized approaches that reduce the problem to
'victimization' and 'harm done' and reveals how gendered social and
economic inequalities
increase the risks of violence against women whether in the context
of different hierarchical systems, neoliberal economic policies,
armed conflicts, natural disasters or other crises. This book is
a
major contribution to the feminist debates on women's human rights
and will have a positive impact on policy and practice for
change."
--Professor Yakin Ertürk, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against
Women 2003-2009
"I have been working in the field of human rights and in particular
the rights of women for many, many years. My own observations,
particularly in relation to post-conflict situations, were that the
absence of social and economic rights inhibited real participation
by women in governance and other public life. Jacqui True has
explained that simplistic observation as only part of a broader
analysis. She moves easily from one context to the next, from
the
economic crisis to trafficking, between conflict and non-conflict,
and consistently explains and applies the theory of political
economy in a way which is compelling. With this book she has opened
a door, and
one which we should all be determined to go through."--Madeleine
Rees, former Chief of the UN OHCHR Women's Rights and Gender Unit
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