Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence

Jennifer R. Wies And Hillary J. Haldane

Description

Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence is a broad and accessible volume, with a truly global approach to understanding the lives of front-line workers in women's shelters, anti-violence organizations, and outreach groups. Often written from a first-person perspective, these essays examine government workers, volunteers, and nongovernmental organization employees to present a vital picture of practical approaches to combating gender-based violence.

Sujets

• Gender Studies
• Human Rights
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Anthropology
• Health

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 22 août 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826517821
• Langue: English

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Anthropology at the Front Lines of GenderBased Violence

Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane, Editors

Anthropology at the Front Lines of GenderBased Violence

Anthropology at the Front Lines of GenderBased Violence

Edited by Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane

Vanderbilt University Press Nashville

© 2011 by Vanderbilt University Press

Nasville, Tennessee 37235

All rigts reserved

First printing 2011

his book is printed on acid-free paper made

from 30% post-consumer recycled content.

Manufactured in te United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Antropology at te front lines of gender-based violence/ Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane, editors. p. cm. Includes bibliograpical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8265-1780-7 (clot edition : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8265-1781-4 (pbk. edition : alk. paper) 1. Violence—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Women—Violence against—Cross-cultural studies. 3. Abused women—Cross- cultural studies. 4. Domestic violence—Cross-cultural studies. I. Wies, Jennifer R. II. Haldane, Hillary J. GN495.2.A567 2011 303.6'2—dc22 2010040505

his book is dedicated to all frontline workers wo respond to and prevent gender-based violence: Your tireless efforts transform tousands of lives.

Contents

Acknowledgments Etnograpic Notes from te Front Lines  1 of Gender-Based Violence Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane Disparity in Disasters: A Frontline View of Gender-  2 Based Inequities in Emergency Aid and Healt Care Roxane Ricter Participant and Observer: Reflections on Fieldwork  3 in a Women’s Selter in Tokyo, Japan Sarman L. Babior Crafting Community troug  4 Narratives, Images, and Sared Experience Stepanie J. Brommer “We Couldn’t Just hrow Her in te Street”:  5 Gendered Violence and Women’s Selters in Turkey Kim Sively Institutional Resources (Un)Available:  6 he Effects of Police Attitudes and Actions on Battered Women in Peru M. Cristina Alcalde

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Cild Welfare and Domestic Violence Workers’  7 Cultural Models of Domestic Violence: An Etnograpic Examination Cyleste C. Collins Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives  8 from te Male European Front Line Uwe Jacobs Cultural Politics of a Global/Local Healt Program  9 for Battered Women in Vietnam Lynn Kwiatkowski Global Civil Society and te Local Costs of 10 Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia Julie Hemment Memorializing Murder, Speaking Back to te State 11 Belinda Leac Laliti,Compassionate Savior: 12 he Hidden Arcaeology of Founding a Selter Jamila Bargac Contributors Index

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Acknowledgments

his volume grew from a conversation in a otel coffee sop in Vancouver, Britis Columbia, in 2006 during te Society for Applied Antropology meetings. We were bot finising our dissertations and felt fortunate to connect wit anoter antropologist committed to te issue of gender- based violence. Wile te field as grown rapidly in te past few years, our own literature reviews were constructed largely of accounts by sociologists, psycologists, and social workers. We believe tat antropology as muc to contribute to tis important field of study, and tis book is a result of our sared passion to ultimately eliminate gender-based violence. We came to tis topic from our own experiences on te front lines, work- ing in emergency selters as victim advocates and otline volunteers. We ave personally felt te adrenaline rus and nausea tat can overwelm one wen driving to a ospital emergency room or police station in te middle of te nigt to assist a survivor of violence. In tat coffee sop we commiserated over our common frustrations wit a safety net of care tat sometimes appeared to ave more oles tan tread, and ow our prevention efforts seemed to fall sort. But we were energized by te spirit of umanity and compassion tat cuts across te various sectors of te front line, across communities, and even nation-states. We convinced eac oter tatAntropology at te Front Linesof Gender-Based Violencewas te muc-needed next step to te contributions in antropology focusing on gender-based violence.  he workers wose stories are presented in tis book deserve attention, support, and appreciation. We cannot tank all te workers by name, but we ope tat you find te stories told ere to be a faitful rendition of your tougts and work. On bealf of our colleagues, and te survivors to wom you devote your energies, tank you for your labor, devotion, and care.  Many colleagues ave supported our efforts troug te years. hree

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