UWI BOOKSHOP » Faculty of Law » Norman Manley Law School » LA0018 » CRITICAL CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVES ON PREVENTING GENDER-BASED
Model: LA0018
Authors: BIHOLAR & LESLIE
Publishers: MISCELLANEOUS
Price: $9,460.00JMD
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
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his book explores the widespread problem of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean, exploring reasons for its perpetuation and proposing viable policy and programming solutions to prevent it. Drawing on the work of a multidisciplinary team of Caribbean researchers and practitioners, the book explores the ways in which violence victimisation and perpetration have been socially and institutionally shaped, and supported by fixed gender codes.

Key themes in the book include the institutional frameworks and structural inequalities that perpetuate gender-based violence, the role of the church both in perpetuating the problem and its potential to combat it, the role of law, access to justice, and governmental and non-governmental responses to gender-based violence. The book covers violence against women, but also explores women as perpetrators, men and boys as victims, and gender-based violence against young persons. It also demonstrates the ways in which gender-based violence can further marginalise already marginalised groups, such as members of the LBTQ+ community or persons with disabilities.