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Family Cultural Norms Sustaining Violence against Women
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Family Cultural Norms Sustaining Violence against Women

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Family Studies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 21451

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Michaela Rogers

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Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TA, UK
Interests: interpersonal and gender-based violence and abuse; gender, trans and gender diversity; hidden and marginalised communities; multiple social exclusion; qualitative and narrative methods
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Dr. Vera Lomazzi

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Department of Management, University of Bergamo, 24127 Bergamo, Italy
Interests: gender norms; gender equality; European values; gender-based violence; survey methods
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Violence against women (VAW) is a public health concern and violation of human rights which affects millions of individuals, families, and communities across the globe. It is endemic, universal, and complex, operating as intimate, interpersonal, and structural violence. A substantial body of evidence exists which draws attention to the multiple health, social, and economic impacts of VAW for victims and their families, as well as to communities and economies (European Institute for Gender Equality, 2021). While violence and abuse can be perpetrated and experienced by people of all gender identities, it is women who, more often than others, experience the most severe forms and consequences, including fatality. Moreover, VAW is more commonly perpetrated within and across intimate and family relationships, with rates that illustrate that 1 in 3 women will experience abuse in this context during their lifetime (World Health Organization, 2013).

A Special Issue on VAW within the family setting is timely, as research suggests that during the pandemic, when many families experienced increased adversity (including reduced income) and greater lengths of time together in lockdowns, women experienced increased violence and decreased safety (UN Women, 2021). This Special Issue foregrounds the issue of cultural norms within the context of family systems, structure, processes, and practice to explore how values, gender norms, and family norms provide the context for and sustain violence against women at the individual and societal levels. In addition, attention is paid to the intersectional nature of VAW in that it transgresses the boundaries of culture, religion, age, sexuality, and (dis)ability to affect women of all identities and from diverse backgrounds.

We seek to bring together interdisciplinary research on contemporary issues and contexts relating to VAW and the interrelationship with family cultural norms, and welcome contributions with theoretical or empirical insights, based on qualitative or quantitative approaches, to advance understanding about VAW.

References

European Institute for Gender Equality. 2021. The costs of gender-based violence in the European Union. Vilnius: European Institute for Gender Equality

UN Women. 2021. Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19. Available online: https://data.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/documents/Publications/Measuring-shadow-pandemic.pdf

World Health Organization. 2013. Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence. Available online: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241564625

Dr. Michaela Rogers
Dr. Vera Lomazzi
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Keywords

  • culture
  • domestic abuse
  • family norms
  • gender norms
  • intersectionality
  • violence against women

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The Cultural Roots of Violence against Women: Individual and Institutional Gender Norms in 12 Countries
by Vera Lomazzi
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(3), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030117 - 24 Feb 2023
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To discuss the cultural roots of violence against women (VAW), this study focuses on individual gender norms, prescriptive gender role expectations, moral justification of VAW, and institutional gender norms that define gender cultures, that provide opportunities for VAW, and legitimize roles and behaviors. [...] Read more.
To discuss the cultural roots of violence against women (VAW), this study focuses on individual gender norms, prescriptive gender role expectations, moral justification of VAW, and institutional gender norms that define gender cultures, that provide opportunities for VAW, and legitimize roles and behaviors. We used indicators of gender norms related to VAW from different sources to provide an overview of 12 countries (Armenia, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, and Ukraine). The indicators include individual gender role attitudes and justification of wife beating from the World Values Survey; information on national legislation and institutional discrimination from the Social Institution Gender Index from the OECD; and each country’s position on the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence—a transnational platform with relevant transformative power that has been opposed by anti-Europeanists. Although situations vary significantly in the different countries, this explorative study suggests that eradicating the cultural roots of VAW is more difficult in societies in which rigid traditional gender roles and a strongly patriarchal culture in legislation and institutions are supported by moral views legitimizing violence as a form of punishment for challenging prescribed gender roles. Full article
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An Analysis of Responses to Sexual Assault against Women in Public Space: Practical Gender Needs or Strategic Gender Interests?
by María Silvestre Cabrera, Iratxe Aristegui Fradua and Raquel Royo Prieto
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(2), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020101 - 14 Feb 2023
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This article focuses on sexual violence and the learned fear of rape experienced by women in their use of public space, understood as social constructions of a system of domination. We analyze a series of data, drawn from secondary sources, on the prevalence [...] Read more.
This article focuses on sexual violence and the learned fear of rape experienced by women in their use of public space, understood as social constructions of a system of domination. We analyze a series of data, drawn from secondary sources, on the prevalence and perception of sexual assault in public space. This data confirms that sexual assault in public spaces is a real risk and that, as such, it is perceived and experienced by the majority of women. We have also selected and presented a series of institutional initiatives aimed at preventing sexual assaults on women in public spaces at night-time. Finally, we have constructed an index to study whether the selected institutional responses respond to practical gender needs or to strategic gender interests. The article concludes that all of these initiatives have a greater impact in the area of gender needs, but they are not able to reverse the structural causes of sexual assault or to contribute to true social change. Full article
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