Faculty of Law
This book examines the widespread problem of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean, exploring reasons for its perpetuation and proposing viable policy and programming solutions to prevent it. Drawing on the work of a multidisciplinary team of Caribbean researchers and practitioners, the book sheds light on the ways in which violence victimisation and perpetration have been socially and institutionally shaped, and supported by fixed gender codes.
Key themes in the book include the institutional frameworks and structural inequalities that perpetuate gender-based violence; access to justice; the role of the law, of courts of law, or of the church in perpetuating the problem as well as their potential to combat it, and governmental and non-governmental responses to gender-based violence. The book covers violence against women, but also explores women as perpetrators, men and boys as victims, and gender-based violence against young persons. It also demonstrates the ways in which gender-based violence can further marginalise already marginalised groups, such as members of the LBTQ+ community or persons with disabilities.
Bridging the divide between academia, government, and civil society, this book challenges the normalisation of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean and proposes viable, culturally relevant solutions for prevention. It is a book of interest to researchers and practitioners working on issues related to gender, GBV, feminism, the Caribbean, global development, criminology, human rights.
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