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Book SynopsisAfrica as a continent, which holds strong to its patriarchal cultural principles and practices, is known for its blatant display of violent abuse of women, including state-sanctioned violence, and its lax approach to national legislative policies and international treaties against violence against women. Using data from Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe, this edited collection showcases a variety of experiences and perspectives in the international comparative study of violence against women of African ancestry. This approach provides the context for examining the problem of violence against women, including its policy and practice responses (if any), as it impacts women of African origin in different parts of the world. This book is of value to those interested in African studies, criminology, gender studies, sociology, and many more.
Trade ReviewViolence Against Women of African Descent testifies to the established track records of Anita Kalunta-Crumpton as an editor who has carved a niche in Pan African Studies by collegially collecting contributions from around the world to cover relatively neglected fields of study. In this book, she demonstrates that Violence Against Women is a globalized epidemic that does not attract the deserved scholarly attention anywhere and especially so when the victimized are marginalized women of African descent. The original contribution of the book is a timely reminder that Violence Against Women is a violation against all of humanity because such violence when tolerated tends to escalate violent crimes and to intensify the structural violence that accompanies racist-imperialist-patriarchy in societies structured in dominance. Violence Against Women anywhere is therefore a threat of violence against all of humanity everywhere, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr. -- Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech
In a unique collection that includes contributions from countries and populations that so far have not told their gender victimization story, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton has produced an original volume that reveals the many facets of violent victimization of women of African ancestry. The book provides insightful discussions and analyses of forms of gender violence in 16 countries spread over four continents. From Morocco to Zimbabwe, to immigrant African communities in Australia, Europe, and the U.S., contributors analyze the experiences of hard to reach and often silenced populations regarding their gender-related violence -- physical, emotional, communal and societal. This important edited collection is highly recommended for students in sociology, criminology, legal, African, and gender studies, as well as the general the public. -- Edna Erez, University of Illinois at Chicago
Table of ContentsPart I: Violence against Women of African Descent in Africa Chapter 1: Violence against Women: Women’s Struggle for the Rights to Collective Land in Morocco by Soumia Boutkhil Chapter 2: Violence against Women and the Feasibility of an Early Warning System in Kenya by Karatu Kiemo, Jesca Kinoti and Winnie Munene Chapter 3: Obtrusive Forms of Violence against Young Women in Zimbabwe by Viola Matunhu, Jephias Matunhu and Anita Kalunta-Crumpton Chapter 4: Violence against Women: The Case of Ghana by Maame Yaa Akyiaa Barnes and Joseph Appiahene-Gyamfi Chapter 5: Perspectives on the Correlational and Consequential Factors of Violence against Women in Ethiopia by Meseret Kassahun Desta and Pietro Toggia Chapter 6: Violence against Women: A Snubbed Tragedy in South Africa by Kgomotso Pearl Bosilong and Paulin Mbecke Chapter 7: Trafficking of Women: The Nigerian Experience by Udo Chikezie Osisiogu, Ngozi Osarenren and Anita Kalunta-Crumpton Part II: Violence against Women of African Descent in Australia, Europe and North America Chapter 8: The Double Entrapment of Nigerian Women in Italy: Between Humanitarianism and Sexual Governance by Caterina Peroni and Elisa Rapetti Chapter 9: Human Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation and African Women in Spain: Invisible Slaves of the Twenty-First Century by Elisa García-España Chapter 10: Violence Against African Women and Girls in Britain: An Exploratory Assessment by Timi Osidipe and Nenadi Adamu Chapter 11: African Refugee Women in Australia: Domestic and Family Violence Experience by Ndungi wa Mungai and Lydia Wanja Gitau Chapter 12: Violence against Black Women in the Great White North: Exploring the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence among Black Women from a Canadian Context by Kanika Samuels-Wortley Chapter 13: Immigrant African Women: A Neglected Minority in the Fight against Intimate Partner Violence in the United States by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton Part III: Violence against Women of African Descent in Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter 14: An Inquiry into Violence against Afro-Trinbagonian Women by Indira Rampersad Chapter 15: The Circumstances of Afro-Jamaican Women and their Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence by Camille Gibson, Marika Dawkins and Dahlia Stoddart Chapter 16: Webs of Captivity: On the Coloniality of the Brazilian Justice System by Dina Alves
