Violence in Everyday Life - Power, Gender and Sexuality

Violence in Everyday Life explores how identity markers such as gender and sexuality intersect with violence, synthesizing the themes of gender, sexuality and violence to offering a crucial and coherent framework for understanding the interrelationship between these concepts.Aliraza Javaid explores how violence is experienced at a local, regional and global level, and considers the ways in which hegemonic masculinities are reproduced through violence. Attention is given to the particular ways in which these constructions of masculinity are reflected in areas such as homophobic violence, transphobic violence, and violence against intimate partners. Drawing on new empirical data and his own personal experiences of violence, as well as identifying new areas for further research, Javaid''s work represents a unique study of the interconnectedness of violence, gender and sexuality, and of how violence is fuelled by society''s attitudes towards masculinity.>

Summary

Examines how hegemonic masculinity is reproduced not only through violence against women, but violence in an LGBTQ+ context, as well as showing how violence is in turn fuelled by society’s attitudes towards masculinity.

Product details

• Authors: Aliraza Javaid
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781786997227
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-722-7
• No. of pages: 257
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups, Violence in society, domestic violence, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, North America (USA and Canada), Human Geography, Violence and abuse in society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, For higher / tertiary / university education, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents