Gender Violence - Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title
In often mundane but sometimes quite obvious ways, persons belonging to groups routinely threatened with harm on the basis of gender and sexuality suffer restrictions to choice and action, impairing autonomy. Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy shows that resistance to, and cultivating resiliency within, a culture of gender violence is key to fostering autonomy.
Building on decades of research philosophically interrogating autonomy and its limits, and with a martial arts background spanning over twenty-five years, Professor Burrow develops a novel approach to autonomy development under everyday threats of violence. Appealing to empirical research to ground its philosophical analysis, the theory presented in this book establishes that cultivating self-confidence through self-defense training is a significant strategy contributing to resistance and resilience under threats of violence and hence, autonomy development.

About the author

Sylvia Jane Burrow is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University and adjunct professor in the faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University.

Summary

Sylvia Jane Burrow explores self-confidence as integral to autonomy development within everyday contexts threatening gender violence, arguing that self-defense training is significant to resistance and resilience.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Jane Burrow
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2024
• EAN: 9781498578875
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7887-5
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social welfare & social services, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social welfare and social services, Violence in society, Feminism and feminist theory, Violence and abuse in society, Combat sports & self-defence, Personal safety, SPORTS & RECREATION / Martial Arts / General, Combat sports and self-defence