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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
IntroductionReturn to the Local: Lessons for Global Change
Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane
Part I Ethnographic Intimacies
Chapter 1Domestic Violence, Embodiment, and Women's Lives in Northern Vietnam
Lynn Kwiatkowski
Chapter 2 Bureaucratic Bindings: Refugee Resettlement and Intimate Partner Abuse
Elizabeth Wirtz
Part II Multi-Scalar Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Chapter 3 Munted: Rebuilding Community after Disaster
Hillary J. Haldane
Chapter 4 Gender-Based Violence and the State in Guatemala's Genocide and Beyond
M. Gabriela Torres Chapter 5 Prostitution Diversion Programs Structural Violence
Yasmina Katsulis
Part III Critical Challenges in the Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence
Chapter 6 Sex Trafficking of Native Peoples: History, Race, and Law
April D. J. Petillo
Chapter 7 Pa Manyen Fanm Nan Konsa: Understanding Violence against Women afterHaiti's Earthquake
Mark Schuller
Chapter 8 Campus Sexual Violence Policies and Practices: A Holistic and Historical Approach to Research and Practice
Jennifer R. Wies
Part IVAvenues for Change
Chapter 9 "I'm a REAL Father Now!" Using Applied Anthropology to Promote Positive Masculinities to Reduce Family Violence in Northern Uganda
Rebecka Lundgren and Kimberly Ashburn
Chapter 10 Employing Scholar-Activist Anthropology to Counter Gender-Based Violence in Belize
Melissa Beske
Chapter 11 Intimate Partner Violence, Social Change, and Scholar-Activism in Coastal Ecuador
Karin Friederic
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Jennifer R. Wies is associate professor and program director of anthropology at Eastern Kentucky University.
Hillary J. Haldane is associate professor and program director of anthropology at Quinnipiac University.
Summary
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.
