Ending Violence Against Women

A Challenge for Development and Humanitarian Work

Author: Francine Pickup
Secondary Author: Suzanne Williams
ISBN: 0855984384

Violence, and women's fear of it, limits women's choices in virtually all spheres of their lives. It has long-term, as well as short-term, consequences on women's physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women's ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships, and participate in public activities, including development programs. Yet development organizations have been generally slow to realize the centrality of the issue to their work. By addressing violence against women, development workers go to the heart of how members of communities relate to one another and how they are able to shape their own lives.The first section of the book examines the many different definitions of violence against women, and offers theories about why it happens in all societies across the world. It discusses the current momentum around the issue, and asks why development organizations have been slow to take up the struggle to end violence against women. The s

Publisher: Oxfam
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Political Science / Civil Rights, Social Science / Violence in Society

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Violence)