Central European University

Department of Public Policy

Winter 2012/2013

THE POLITICS OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Course instructor: Andrea Krizsan, Center for Policy Studies; krizsana@ceu.hu

Credit number: 2

Office hours: TBA; Nador u.11, room 316

Course level: M.A.

Course objectives and overview

Gender based violence is one of the main social forces producing and reproducing gender

inequality. Brought to international and national policy agendas by feminist movements it has

lately become a core policy issue discussed not just in the framework of gender equality policy

but related to policies on human rights, crime prevention, child protection, health, development,

cross border migration and trafficking and conflict and post conflict intervention. This course

aims to look at the politics of gender based violence through understanding the main challenges

of framing it as a policy issue. Starting from the history of feminist mobilization around gender

based violence and the feminist approach to it the course will progress through understanding

contestation to the feminist framing, alternative approaches to it and proceed to examining

currently available norms and state responses addressing it. The course will pay particular

attention to some specific forms of gender based violence such as violence in intimate relations,

sexual violence, sexual harassment, traditional forms of violence, trafficking and violence in

conflict and post conflict situations.

Course Structure

The structure of the course will be fourfold.

I. The first part of the class will introduce the course, basic concepts of gender based violence,

and will discuss approaches coming from cost and measurement of violence.

II. The second part of the class will introduce the contestation between the feminist framing of

gender violence and other important approaches to gender violence such as human rights, family

policy and children’s rights and health approaches. A separate class will be dedicated to

intersectionality in framing gender violence.

III. The third section of the class discusses different forms of gender based violence, their

specificities and the similarities between them.

IV. The last section will be devoted to policy responses addressing gender violence coming from

an actor centered approach: responses by states, civil society and international actors will be

addressed.

General Resources for the Class

Books:

Wilhelm Heitmeyer and John Hagan eds. (2003) International handbook of violence research.

Kluwer

Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence edited by Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson.

Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2008

European Commission (2010) Feasibility Study to Assess the Possibilities, Opportunities and

Needs to Standardise National Legislation on Violence against Women, Violence against

Children and Sexual Orientation Violence. Daphne Program

Sally Merry Engle (2009) Gender violence: a cultural perspective. Wiley-Blackwell

Sokoloff, N. J. & Pratt, C. eds. Domestic Violence at the Margins London: Rutgers University

Press.

Stark, E. & Buzawa, E. (Eds) Violence against women in families and relationships: making and

breaking connections, New York: Praeger Publishers 2009. ISBN: 978-0-275-99846-2

Articles and chapters:

Sylvia Walby (2012) Violence and Society: Introduction to and Emerging Field in Sociology.

Current Sociology.

Carol Hagemann-White (2002) “Violence against women in the European context: histories,

prevalence, theories” in Thinking differently: a reader in European women's studies edited by

Gabriele Griffin and Rosi Braidotti Zed 2002

Marianne Hester (2004) “Future Trends and Developments : Violence Against Women in Europe

and East Asia” in Violence Against Women 2004 10: 1431

Compares terminology and processes in UK, DK and China

Journals:

Violence against Women SAGE http://vaw.sagepub.com/

Social Politics http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/

European Journal of Women Studies http://ejw.sagepub.com/

International Feminist Journal of Politics http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14616742.asp

Websites

University of Michigan database of reports on violence against women

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/svaw/domestic/reports/institution.htm

Stop Violence against Women website of the Minnesota based organization Advocates for

Human Rights

http://www.stopvaw.org/

European Women’s Lobby Observatory on Violence against Women

http://www.ewlcentreonviolence.org/

Coalition for Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations

http://www.womensrightscoalition.org/site/publications/index_en.php

Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice

http://www.iccwomen.org/index.php

The International Monitoring Center on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts

http://www.viol-tactique-de-guerre.org/bibliography.html

European Commission Anti-Trafficking Website

http://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/

Teaching Method and Learning Outcomes

The course will meet once a week and work in a seminar format. After the discussion of the

required readings in which all students are expected to take part, presentation(s) will follow that

reveal the challenges that policy actions face in transnational and domestic context in regard to

the problems/themes of the specific classes. The assignment for presentation will be either

individual or small group based depending on the size of the class.

Due to the nature of the topic, the course will invite students to develop their skills of critical

thinking by understanding major theoretical, moral and practical debates that shape

considerations on responding to the problem of violence against women. The teaching method

will ensure that students have to regularly synthesize different pieces of knowledge (discussion of

the core readings), to critically evaluate the differences and overlaps of arguments

(presentations), to do targeted small inquiries for relevant policy cases (voluntary presentations

and term paper), and to develop their academic writing skills (written support to the presentation

and term paper).

Assignments and assessment

(1) All enrolled students are expected to carefully consult with the required readings prior to the

classes, ideally by taking notes. Active participation in the seminar discussions is expected from

all students. Students are expected to be prepared to reflect upon these questions in the class.

Seminars will be discussion-based, often group based and their success will largely depend on the

students’ contributions to the class.

Weight to the grade: 30%

(2) Students will sign up to one seminar presentation during the semester. The course syllabus

details the texts or materials that could be presented. The presentation shall be of 15-20 minutes,

should always be supported by a written handout or power-point file. An outline of the

presentation should be submitted to the course instructor (email) a few days prior to the class.

Weight to the grade: 30%

(3) Students will write a term paper of 3,000 words. A two-paragraph abstract of the paper should

be submitted by February 20th. Preliminary discussion with the course instructor on the paper

topics is encouraged.

Please note that late papers submitted after the deadline will be marked down by half of a letter

grade per day. The papers should be double- or 1,5 spaced, appropriately referenced, and provide

a bibliography of sources consulted. Please include the word count on the title page. All written

assignments should be produced exclusively by the student who submits the work. Any text

reproduction which is not clearly identified and attributed will have to be considered as

plagiarism (see related provisions and guidance in the Student Handbook and other relevant

University policies and regulations).

Weight to the grade: 40%

Audit Students

Audit students are expected to do all required readings in the class, to actively participate in the

class discussions and additionally to make a seminar presentation.

TOPICS AND READINGS

First Week: Introduction

Introducing the course and basic concepts of gender based violence. Cost and measurement of

violence. Concepts, types, facts and figures.

Questions for discussion: Gender based violence: What is it? What forms? Whose problem?

How to measure it? What is its cost?

Readings

Sally Merry Engle (2009) “Introduction” in Gender violence: a cultural perspective. Pp.1-25.

“Naming and Framing the Problem” 27-29 in Gender Violence: a Cultural Perspective. Wiley-

Blackwell

Recommended

Sylvia Walby (2012) Violence and Society: Introduction to and Emerging Field in Sociology.

Current Sociology.

Sylvia Walby (2004) The Cost of Domestic Violence. UK Government. Women and Equality

Unit. http://www.devon.gov.uk/cost_of_dv_report_sept04.pdf

Walby, Sylvia and Andrew Myhill: 'Comparing the methodology of the new national surveys of

violence against women' , British Journal of Criminology, 2001, 41, 3, 502-522, with Andrew

Myhill, )

Carol Hagemann White (2003) “A Comparative Examination of Gender Perspectives on

Violence” in Wilhelm Heitmeyer and John Hagan eds. (2003) International handbook of violence

research. Kluwer. Pp. 97-117

Carol Hagemann-White (2002) “Violence against women in the European context: histories,

prevalence, theories” in Thinking differently : a reader in European women's studies edited by

Gabriele Griffin and Rosi Braidotti Zed 2002

Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted

By Roni Caryn Rabin, December 14, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/health/nearly-1-in-5-women-in-us-survey-report-sexual-assault.html?_r=4&hp

Materials from UNECE Workshop on Measuring Violence against Women (Geneva, 29-30 April

2010) http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2010.04.vaw.htm

Second week: What is the Problem? Violence against Women, Women’s Rights as Human

Rights

The feminist approach to gender based violence. Mainstreaming violence into human rights.

Questions for debate: What are the weaknesses of the feminist approach? Can men be victims of

gender violence? Can women be perpetrators?

Readings

Radford, Kelly, Hester (1995) “Introduction” in Marianne Hester , Liz Kelly , Jill Radford Eds.

(1995) Women, Violence, and Male Power: Feminist Activism, Research, and Practice. Open

University Press.

CEDAW Recommendation 19

Presentation:

Alice Edwards (2010) "Equality and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Sex" in Violence

against Women under International Human Rights Law. CUP. Pp.140-197

Recommended

Catherine MacKinnon “Equality Remade: Violence against Women” in Are Women Human?

Harvard UP.2006. Pp. 105-111

Kelly, Liz 2005 “Inside outsiders: Mainstreaming Gender Violence into Human Rights Discourse

and Practice” International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol.7, no. 4, pp.471 - 495

Charlotte Bunch. 1992. "Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Revision of Human

Rights," 12 Human Rights Quarterly 486

Laura J. Shepherd (2007) “‘Victims, Perpetrators and Actors’ Revisited: Exploring the Potential

for a Feminist Reconceptualisation of (International) Security and (Gender) Violence” in BJPIR:

2007 VOL 9, 239–256

Kelly & Radford (1995) “’Nothing really happened’: the invalidation of women’s experiences of

sexual violence” in Marianne Hester , Liz Kelly , Jill Radford Eds. Women, Violence, and Male

Power: Feminist Activism, Research, and Practice. Open University Press. Pp.19

Third week: What is the problem – coming from health?

This class we discuss approaches defining violence as a health problem.

Question for discussion: is the health approach in conflict with the gender based violence

approach? Are they compatible? How do they complement each other?

Readings

World Bank website on Gender-Based Violence, Health and the role of the Health Sector

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOP

ULATION/EXTPHAAG/0,,contentMDK:22421973~pagePK:64229817~piPK:64229743~theSite

PK:672263,00.html

Presentation

Cheryl Hanna. 2010 “Health, Human Rights, and Violence Against Women and Girls: Broadly

Defining Affirmative State Duties After Opuz v. Turkey”. Forthcoming, HASTINGS

INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW REVIEW

Recommended

WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women. 2005.

http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/en/

Mental Health Europe (2012) Shaping attitudes. A handbook on domestic violence and

mental health.

US Violence Against Women Health Initiative Act of 2011

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1578ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1578ih.pdf

Background material to the law:

http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/userfiles/file/PublicPolicy/PublicPolicy/VAWA_Summar

y_%20Initiative_2011.pdf

http://www.louise.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2466:slaughter-

introduces-legislation-to-prevent-violence-against-women&catid=95:2011-press-

releases&Itemid=55

Fourth Week: Defining the Problem: Coming from Family Policy and Children’s Rights

The strongest competing approach to that coming from feminists is a family policy approach

which sees gender violence as a family problem. This class will discuss some of the challenges

coming from the family focused approach.

Children’s rights are a crosscutting topic of gender violence debates. While inseparable from

gender violence, violence against children often becomes a competing approach. This class will

discuss some of the emerging dilemmas in this realm as well.

Questions for discussion: Is there an inherent conflict between a children’s rights and a gender

equality approach? Is the gender based violence approach missing out on something? Is the

children’s rights approach missing out on something? Are these two incompatible? Think about

domestic violence, rape, trafficking.

Readings

JoAnne Langley Miller and Dean Knudsen (1999) “Family abuse and Violence” in Handbook of

marriage and the family / edited by Marvin B. Sussman, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, and Gary W.

Peterson. New York, Plenum Press. Pp. 705-743

Presentation

Hester, M. (2011). The Three Planet Model: Towards an Understanding of Contradictions in

Approaches to Women and Children’s Safety in Contexts of Domestic Violence. British Journal

of Social Work (2011) 41, 837–853

Recommended readings

Anastasia Powell and Suellen Murray (2008) Children and Domestic Violence: Constructing a

Policy Problem in Australia and New Zealand. Social & Legal Studies 17: 453-473

Kelly, Liz (1996) ‘When woman protection is the best kind of child protection: Children,

domestic violence and child abuse’, Administration, 44,2,118-135.

Radford & Stanko(1995) “Vaw and children” in Marianne Hester , Liz Kelly , Jill Radford Eds.

Women, Violence, and Male Power: Feminist Activism, Research, and Practice. Open University

Press.

Marianne Hester (2005) Issues of custody and access following violence in the home in Denmark

and Britain. As presented at the European Conference on interpersonal violence. 26th September

2005, Paris, France. http://www.cahrv.uni-osnabrueck.de/reddot/Marianne_Hester.pdf

Fifth week: Intersectionality

One of the major challenges to the violence against women approach comes from the recognition

that gender violence may have varying impact on different subgroups of women depending on

other intersecting inequalities. Class, ethnicity and disability are some of the most evident and

most widely discussed intersections. This class will discuss the problem of intersectionality in the

field of gender based violence.

Questions for discussion: Is attention to intersectional subgroups disrupting the wider gender

based violence is universal claim? Can they be seen as complementary?

Readings

Sokoloff, Natalie J. and Dupont, Ida (2005). Domestic Violence at the Intersections of Race,

Class, and Gender: Challenges and Contributions to Understanding Violence Against

Marginalized Women in Diverse Communities. Violence Against Women. 11(1):38-64.

Presentations

Kimberle Crenshaw (1991) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and

Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 6: 1241-….

Or

Weldon, Laurel (2011) “Inclusion, Identity and Women’s Movements: State Policies on Violence

against Women of Color” in When Protest Makes Policy. Michigan UP

Recommended

Irma Morales Waugh (2010) Examining the Sexual Harassment Experiences of Mexican

Immigrant Farmworking Women. Violence Against Women 16( 3): 237-261

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Rashida Manjoo (2011) Multiple and

intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women. http://daccess-dds-

ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G11/130/22/PDF/G1113022.pdf?OpenElement

http://www.violenceisnotourculture.org/

Michele Bograd (2005) “Strengthening domestic violence theories. Intersections of race, class,

sexual orientation and gender” in Sokoloff, N. J. & Pratt, C. eds. Domestic Violence at the

Margins London: Rutgers University Press. Pp 25

Jennifer Nixon and Cathy Humphreys “Marshalling the Evidence: Using Intersectionality in the

Domestic Violence Frame.” Social Politics Volume 17, Number 2, Summer 2010

Shamita das Dasgupta (2005) “Women’s realities. Definign VAW by immigration, race and

class”. in Sokoloff, N. J. & Pratt, C. eds. Domestic Violence at the Margins London: Rutgers

University Press. Pp. 56

Websdale & Johnson (2005) “Reducing women battering. The role of structural approaches”. in

Sokoloff, N. J. & Pratt, C. eds. Domestic Violence at the Margins London: Rutgers University

Press. Pp. 389

Sixth Week: Specific aspects of the problem: Trafficking

Question for debate: What is the tension between liberal and radical feminist approaches to

trafficking? Can they be resolved? Are the two standpoints compatible?

Readings

Outshoorn, Joyce (2005).”The Political Debates on Prostitution and Trafficking of Women”.

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, Volume 12, Number 1, Spring

2005, pp. 141-155

Presentation

The EU Strategy towards the Eradication of Trafficking in Human Beings 2012–2016 /*

COM/2012/0286 final */

http://ec.europa.eu/anti-

trafficking/entity.action;jsessionid=GvWVQ1bFnCMR4njDkKfLZxnvTYjr0BDTj2K21QGnS6g

dQLQ3VMzR!1341146738?id=714114c7-cd42-46cf-85eb-c09d042c7181

Recommended

Niki Adams (2003) Anti-Trafficking Legislation: Protection or Deportation? Feminist Review

73(1): 135-139

Liz Kelly (2003) The Wrong Debate: Reflections on Why Force Is Not the Key Issue with

Respect to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation. Feminist Review 73(1):139-144

OSCE (2004) National Referral mechanisms. Joining Efforts to Protect the Rights of Trafficked

Persons. A Practical Handbook

http://www.osce.org/odihr/13967

Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective. Report of the UN

Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (2004)

http://www.stopvaw.org/sites/3f6d15f4-c12d-4515-8544-

26b7a3a5a41e/uploads/Integration_of_the_Human_Rights_Perspective.pdf

Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

and its Explanatory Report (Warsaw, 16.V.2005). Council of Europe Treaty Series - No. 197

http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/trafficking/Docs/Convntn/CETS197_en.asp#TopOfPage

Laura Agustin, 2005. “Migrants in the mistress's house: Other voices in the "trafficking" debate”

Social Politics, 12 (1): 96-117.

Musto, Jennifer Lynne(2010) 'Carceral Protectionism and Multi-Professional Anti-Trafficking

Human Rights Work in the Netherlands', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 12: 3, 381 —

400

Hua, Julietta and Nigorizawa, Holly(2010) 'US Sex Trafficking, Women's Human Rights and the

Politics of Representation', International Feminist Journal of Politics, 12: 3, 401 — 423

Kligman, Gail. Limoncelli, Stephanie. Trafficking Women after Socialism: To, Through, and

From Eastern Europe. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society,

Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp. 118-140

Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on

preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims.

http://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/download.action?nodeId=9c9ba3cd-794b-4a57-b534-

ad89effac575&fileName=Directive+THB+L+101+15+april+2011.pdf&fileType=pdf

Further resources:

Website of the EU anti-trafficking coordinator

http://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/index.action?breadCrumbReset=true

Week Seven: Specific aspects of the problem: Domestic violence and rape

Rape and domestic violence, the most prevalent and most widely discussed and regulated issues

of gender based violence will be discussed this week.

Questions for debate: Is it gendered or not? Does it need to talk about women specifically? Or it

can stay neutral and still promote women’s rights?

Reading:

Krizsan, Andrea, and Raluca Maria Popa (2011) "Frames in Contestation: Gendering Domestic

Violence Policies in Five Central and Eastern European Countries." Violence against Women (in

press/forthcoming).

Presentation

Walby et all (2013) Draft Report on Rape to the European Parliament Committee on Gender

Equality

Recommended

Eva Stark (2012) “Re-presenting Battered Women: Coercive Control and the Defense of Liberty”

Prepared for Violence Against Women: Complex Realities and New Issues in a Changing World,

Les Presses de l’Université du Québec (2012)

Elizabeth M Schneider: The Violence of Privacy. In Martha Finneman The Public Nature of

Private Violence. 36-59

Isabel Marcus “Reframing Domestic Violence: Terrorism in the home” in Martha Finneman The

Public Nature of Private Violence. Pp. 11-36

Maria Bustelo, Andromachi Hadjigianni, Andrea Krizsan "Domestic Violence: a public matter” in

Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality. A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe

(ed.) Mieke Verloo, CEU Press: Budapest. 2007

Marianne Hester ( 2012) Portrayal of women as intimate partner domestic violence perpetrators.

Violence Against Women. 2012 Sep;18(9):1067-82.

Nancy Matthews. 1994. “Conclusions” in Confronting Rape. Routledge.

Louise Ellison and Vanessa E. Munro (2009) Reacting to Rape: Exploring Mock Jurors'

Assessments of Complainant Credibility. Br J Criminology (2009) 49(2): 202-219

Liz Kelly. 2010. The (In)credible Words of Women: False Allegations in European Rape

Research. Violence Against Women December 2010 16: 1345-1355,

Susan Brownmiller Against our will: men, women, and rape / New York: Fawcett Columbine,

1975

Week Eight. Specific aspects of the problem: Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment will be discussed this week.

Questions for debate: Is this about culture? Can public policy intervene? And employers? Is this

about sex or about power? Is sexual harassment different from racial harassment?

Readings

Catharine MacKinnon (1979) “Sexual Harassment: The Experience” in Sexual Harassment of

Working Women. Yale UP. Pp.25-55

Presentation

Kathrin Zippel (2009) “The European Union 2002 Directive on sexual harassment: A feminist

success?” Comparative European Politics Vol. 7, 1, 139–157

Recommended

Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen and Amy Blackstone (2012) Sexual Harassment,

Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power. American Sociological Review 2012 77: 625

Sexual Harassment Is A Crime Of Power, Not Passion

http://jezebel.com/5334723/sexual-harassment-is-a-crime-of-power-not-passion?tag=working-it

Kathrin Zippel (2006) “The Political Path of Adoption: Feminists and the German State” in

Zippel The Politics of Sexual Harassment. CUP Pp.123-158

Kathrin Zippel (2006) “Equality Through Litigation: sexual harassment in the United

States” in Zippel The Politics of Sexual Harassment. CUP Pp.42-82

Report on Sexual Harassment in the workplace in EU member states (2004)

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/gender/publications/Multi-

Country/SexualHarassmentReport.pdf

Week Nine. Specific aspects: Gender violence in conflict and post conflict situations

The politics of gender violence in the context of war will be discussed. Special attention will be

devoted to recent reframing of international criminal norms to cover gender violence.

Watching together and discussing PBS documentary Women, War and Peace: War Redefined

Readings

Sally Merry Engle (2009) “Women and Armed Conflict” in Gender violence: a cultural

perspective. Ch 7

Presentation

Rhonda Copelon Gender Crimes as War Crimes: Integrating Crimes Against Women into

International Criminal Law. McGill Law Journal. November, 2000

http://www.iccwomen.org/publications/articles/docs/Gender_Crimes_as_War_Crimes.doc

Recommended

Gaëlle Breton-Le Goff (2002) “Analysis of Trends in Sexual Violence Prosecutions in

Indictments by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) From November 1995 to

November 2002”

http://www.womensrightscoalition.org/site/advocacyDossiers/rwanda/rapeVictimssDeniedJustice

/analysisoftrends_en.php

Megan Bastick, Karin Grimm, Rahel Kunz “Sexual violence in armed conflict: global overview

and implications for the security sector” Geneva : Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of

Armed Forces, 2007

Jalna Hanmer (2002) “Violence, militarism and war” in Thinking differently : a reader in

European women's studies edited by Gabriele Griffin and Rosi Braidotti Zed

The new Bosnian mosaic : identities, memories, and moral claims in a post-war society edited by

Xavier Bougarel, Elissa Helms and Ger Duijzings. Ashgate 2006

Lisa Price “Sexual violence and ethnic cleansing : attacking the family” in Thinking differently :

a reader in European women's studies edited by Gabriele Griffin and Rosi Braidotti Zed 2002

Dorothy Thomas and Regan Ralph (1994)"Rape in War: Challenging the Tradition of Impunity"

SAIS Review http://www.heart-intl.net/HEART/100507/RapeinWar.htm

K.D. Askin, War Crimes Against Women (Martinus Nijhoff, 1997), pp. 49-95; 179-185; 298-

361.

C. McKinnon, "Rape, Genocide and Women’s Human Rights," in Mass Rape: The War Against

Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina, ed. A. Stiglmayer (University of Nebraska Press, 1994)

Theodore Meron, "Rape as a Crime Under International Humanitarian Law," 87 American

Journal of International Law 424 (1993)

Week Ten. Specific aspects: Harmful Traditional Practices

The politics around practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM), early marriages, female

infanticide and dowry price will be discussed.

Questions of debate: what could be appropriate interventions for addressing such practices? How

a Western centric human rights approach conflicts with cultural relativist understandings of

intervention? Are there ways to reconcile?

Watching together documentary movie on early marriages among Roma. Amalipe Center for

Interethnic Dialogue. 2010

Reading

Sally Merry Engle (2009) “Violent ‘cultural’ practices in the family” in Gender violence: a

cultural perspective. Ch 6

Presentations

Radhika Coomaraswamy (2001) Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender

Perspective: Cultural Practices in the Family that Are Violence Towards Women, Report of the

Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, 31 January 2002.

http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/e06a5300f90fa0238025668700518ca4/42e7191fae

543562c1256ba7004e963c/$FILE/G0210428.pdf

Recommended

Korteweg, Anna and Goekce Yurdakul, 2009. Islam, gender, and immigrant integration:

boundary drawing in discourses on honour killing in the Netherlands and Germany. Ethnic and

Racial Studies, 32 (2): 218 -238

I. Gunning, "Arrogant Perception, World-Traveling and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of

Female Genital Surgeries," 23 Columbia Human Rights Journal189 (1991-92)

Adinkrah Mensah (2004) “Witchcraft Accusations and Female Homicide Victimization in

Contemporary Ghana.” Violence Against Women 2004 10: 325

Roggeband, C. and Verloo, M. (2007), Dutch Women are Liberated, Migrant Women are a

Problem: The Evolution of Policy Frames on Gender and Migration in the Netherlands, 1995–

2005. Social Policy & Administration, 41: 271–288.

AWID “Honor Killing is Violence against Women. A Universal not and Islamic Issue”

http://awid.org/eng/Issues-and-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/Honor-Killing-Is-Violence-Against-

Women-a-Universal-Problem-Not-an-Islamic-issue

Week Eleven. The policy process: the state

This class we discuss state responses to gender violence: legislative, policy and community

responses, including the Duluth model.

Readings

Sally Merry (2009) “Punishment, safety and reform” in Gender violence: a cultural perspective.

Pp. 48-76

Presentation

Martin, Patricia Yancey. Coordinated community services for victims of violence. O'Toole,

Laura L., Jessica R. Schiffman, and Margie L. Kiter Edwards (Eds). 2007. Gender Violence:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2/e. New York: New York University Press.

Recommended

Council of Europe (2006): Combating Violence against women. Stocktaking study on the

measures and actions taken in Council of Europe member States, prepared by Carol Hagemann-

White with the assistance of Judith Katenbrink und Heike Rabe/University Osnabrück, on behalf

of the Gender Equality, and Anti-Trafficking Division/Directorate General of Human Rights and

Legal Affairs, Strasbourg

Rosa Logar (2008) Good Practices and Challenges in Legislation on Violence against Women.

For UN DAW

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/vaw_legislation_2008/expertpapers/EGMGPLVAW%

20Paper%20_Rosa%20Logar_.pdf

Levels of protection: Violence against Women Act US

http://www.thehotline.org/get-educated/violence-against-women-act-vawa/

Eve S. Buzawa, Carl G. Buzawa (2002) Domestic violence: the criminal justice response. Sage

2002

Dinys Luciano, Simel Esim, Nata Duvvury (2005) How to make the law work? : budgetary

implications of domestic violence laws in Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, 27(1/2)

Sue Osthoff (2002) “But, Gertrude, I Beg to Differ, a Hit Is Not a Hit Is Not a Hit: When

Battered Women Are Arrested for Assaulting Their Partners” Violence Against Women

December 2002 8: 1521-1544

The Duluth Model. Website: http://www.theduluthmodel.org/

Maria Bustelo, Andromachi Hadjigianni, Andrea Krizsan " Domestic Violence: a public matter”

in Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality. A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in

Europe (ed.) Mieke Verloo, CEU Press: Budapest. 2007

Scott Miller. 2010. Discussing the Duluth Curriculum: Creating a Process of Change for Men

Who Batter Violence Against Women September 2010 16: 1007-1021

Jeffrey L. Edleson. 2010. What’s the Pence Line? Violence Against Women September 2010 16:

981-984,

Laurel Weldon (2002) “Sexing the State: The Impact of Political Institutions on Policies on

Violence against Women” in Protest, Policy and the Problem of Violence against Women.

University of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh. PP. pp. 105-137

Week 12. Policy Actors: civil society in interaction with the state

This week we discuss the role of civil society in promoting and implementing policies against

gender violence and challenges that emerge in the process of cooperation. The role of the

international level will also be addressed.

Questions for debate: the autonomy vs inclusion debate. Liberal vs radical feminism and its

implications for addressing gender based violence

Readings

Elman, Amy (2003) "Refuge in Reconstructed States: Shelter Movements in the United States,

Britain and Sweden," in Women's Movements Facing the Reconfigured State, edited by Lee Ann

Banaszak, Karen Beckwith and Dieter Rucht, New York: Cambridge University Press, 94-113.

Presentation

Kristin Bumiller (2008) In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist

Movement against Sexual Violence. Duke UP Particularly chapter 1, 4 (criminalization,

medicalization)

Recommended

Dobash & Dobash (1992) Women, Violence and Social Change. Pp.: 25-59

WAVE-Network (2004) Away from Violence. European Guidelines for Setting up and Running a

Women’s Refuge. Manual, Vienna

Marian Folley. 1995. “Who is in control? Changing responses to women who have been raped

and sexually abused” In Marianne Hester , Liz Kelly , Jill Radford Eds. (1995) Women, Violence,

and Male Power: Feminist Activism, Research, and Practice. Open University Press. 166-176

Frederika E. Schmitt and Patricia Yancey Martin (2006) “The History of the Anti-Rape and Rape

Crises Center Movements” in Renzetti and Edleson Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence.

Sage

Johnson, Janet Elise and Laura Brunell. (2006) "The Emergence of Contrasting Domestic

Violence Regimes in Postcommunist Europe." Policy & Politics 34.4: 578-98.

Terry Gillespie (1995) “Rape crises centers and male rape: a face of the backlash” in Marianne

Hester , Liz Kelly , Jill Radford eds. (1995) Women, Violence, and Male Power: Feminist

Activism, Research, and Practice. Open University Press. Pp. 148-165

Janet E. Johnson (2009) “The Women's Crisis Center Movement: Funding and De-funding

Feminism.” In Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention. Bloomington,

Ind.: Indiana University Press. Pp. 42-69

Connie Roggeband (2004) “Immediately I thought we should do the same thing” European

Journal of Women Studies 11/2 159-175

Kantola Johanna (2006) “Feminists Out of the State: Domestic Violence Debates in Britain” in

Feminist Theorize the State. Palgrave. Pp. 73-99

Amy Lehrner and Nicole E. Allen (2009) “Still a Movement After All These Years? Current

Tensions in the Domestic Violence Movement” Violence Against Women June 2009 15: 656-677

Lisa S. Alfredson (2009) Creating Human Rights: How Non-citizens Made Sex Persecution

Matter to the World. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Johnson, Janet Elise (2007) “Domestic Violence Politics in Post-Soviet States” Social Politics:

International Studies in Gender, State and Society, Volume 14, Nr 3, Fall 2007, pp. 380

Erin Casey and Tyler Smith. 2010. ''How Can I Not?'': Men's Pathways to Involvement in Anti-

Violence Against Women Work in Violence Against Women 2010 16: 953

M. Keck and K. Sikkink (1998) “Transnational networks on violence against women.” In

Activists Beyond Borders. Cornell University Press.Pp.165-199

Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and

domestic violence. 2011 http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/convention-

violence/default_EN.asp?

Sally Engle Merry (2006) Human rights and gender violence: translating international law into

local justice. Chapter “Gender Violence and the CEDAW Process,” pp. 72-103. Chicago UP

Amnesty International Process around the International Violence against Women Act

http://www.amnestyusa.org/violence-against-women/international-violence-against-women-

act/page.do?id=1051201

Krizsan Andrea, Raluca Popa. 2010. Europeanization in Making Anti-Domestic Violence

Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. Social Politics, Vol.17/3

Zippel, Kathrin (2004) “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Policy Cycles in the European

Union: The Case of Sexual Harassment” in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State

and Society Volume 11, Number 1, Spring, pp. 57-85