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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Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefielld,
[2019]
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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.