Central European University
Department of Public Policy
Winter 2012/2013
THE POLITICS OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
Course instructor:
Credit number:
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Course level:
Andrea Krizsan, Center for Policy Studies; krizsana@ceu.hu
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TBA; Nador u.11, room 316
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. WileyBlackwell
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:slaughterintroduces-legislation-to-prevent-violence-against-women&catid=95:2011-pressreleases&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-ddsny.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/antitrafficking/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-4515-854426b7a3a5a41e/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-b534ad89effac575&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/MultiCountry/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; 298361.
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-AgainstWomen-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 HagemannWhite 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 AntiViolence 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/conventionviolence/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-womenact/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