Violence against women of African descent : global perspectives / edited by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton.

While Africa as a continent, which holds strong to its patriarchal cultural principles and practices, is known for violent abuse of women, including state-sanctioned abuse, violence against women, particularly those of African descent, is a global epidemic. This collection provides insightful discus...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kalunta-Crumpton, Anita, 1962- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefielld, [2019]
Subjects:
Women > Violence against > Africa.
African American women > Violence against.
Women, Black > Violence against.
African American women > Crimes against.
Women, Black > Crimes against.
Physical Description:xi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Violence against women of African descent as a global problem / Anita Kalunta-Crumpton. Part I. Violence against women of African descent in Africa: 1. Violence against women : women's struggle for the rights to collective land in Morocco / Soumia Boutkhil
  • 2. Violence against women and the feasibility of an early warning system in Kenya / Karatu Kiemo, Jesca Kinoti and Winnie Munene
  • 3. Obtrusive forms of violence against young women in Zimbabwe / Viola Matunhu, Jephias Matunhu and Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
  • 4. Violence against women : the case of Ghana / Maame Yaa Akyiaa Barnes and Joseph Appiahene-Gyamfi
  • 5. Perspectives on the correlational and consequential factors of violence against women in Ethiopia / Meseret Kassahun Desta and Pietro Toggia
  • 6. Violence against women : a snubbed tragedy in South Africa / Kgomotso Pearl Bosilong and Paulin Mbecke
  • 7. Trafficking of women : the Nigerian experience / Udo Chikezie Osisiogu, Ngozi Osarenren and Anita Kalunta-Crumpton.
  • Part II. Violence against women of African descent in Australia, Europe and North America: 8. The double entrapment of Nigerian women in Italy : between humanitarianism and sexual governance / Caterina Peroni and Elisa Rapetti
  • 9. Human trafficking, sexual exploitation and African women in Spain : invisible slaves of the Twenty-First Century / Elisa García-España
  • 10. Violence against African women and girls in Britain : an exploratory assessment / Timi Osidipe and Nenadi Adamu
  • 11. African refugee women in Australia : domestic and family violence experience / Ndungi wa Mungai and Lydia Wanja Gitau
  • 12. Violence against black women in the Great White North : exploring the prevalence of intimate partner violence among black women from a Canadian context / Kanika Samuels-Wortley
  • 13. Immigrant African women : a neglected minority in the fight against intimate partner violence in the United States / Anita Kalunta-Crumpton.
  • Part III. Violence against women of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean: 14. An inquiry into violence against Afro-Trinbagonian women / Indira Rampersad
  • 15. The circumstances of Afro-Jamaican women and their experiences of intimate partner violence / Camille Gibson, Marika Dawkins and Dahlia Stoddart
  • 16. Webs of captivity : on the coloniality of the Brazilian justice system / Dina Alves.
  • Author index
  • Subject index
  • About the editor
  • About the contributors.