paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … perception in the context of the criminal justice system. In particular, we consider the language of domestic violence and sexual … conversational style and female violence victims’ genderlect may collide to produce evidentiary issues and a credibility gap. We …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonialism on several drivers of women empowerment including education, fertility, marital age, gender norms, etc. While our … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were …

from the devastation they cause, both in terms of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Violence against women in …Traditional gender roles persist in modern societies. A division would not be detrimental to women if it were not based … Western and non-Western religious and social contexts. Ironically, in patriarchal communities, women are responsible for …

This chapter looks at how violence against women is about control. Easteal explains that this control is exerted in a …

This paper arose from research conducted on disproportionate levels of violence against Filipino women in Australia, in … consideration of the intersection between gender, ethnicity and first world/third world relations. Violence against Filipino women … the need for specificity in understanding practices such as violence against immigrant women. The gendered and racialised …

The paper is based on research into the use of Domestic Violence Protection Orders by Indigenous women in Queensland …, and their effectiveness as a response to family violence particularly in rural and remote areas. The paper draws on a … of domestic and family violence orders …