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Gender based violence in university communities: Policy, prevention and educational initiatives
Author(s): Sundari Anitha
- Publisher: Policy Press
- Publication Date: 27 Jun. 2018
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 260 pages
- ISBN-10: 1447336593
- ISBN-13: 9781447336594
Book Description
This book provides the first in-depth overview of research and practice in GBV in universities. It sets out the international context of ideologies, politics and institutional structures that underlie responses to GBV in elsewhere in Europe, in the US, and in Australia, and consider the implications of implementing related policy and practice.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This book certainly fills a gap, is very topical and brings together thinking and practice in an under researched yet increasingly debated area.” Jane Ellis, Anglia Ruskin University
About the Author
Dr Sundari Anitha is Reader at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. She has researched and written on forced marriage, marriage migrants’ experiences of domestic violence, transnational abandonment of women, dowry-related violence, sex selective abortion, gender-based violence in university communities and South Asian women’s industrial militancy in the UK. She previously managed a Women’s Aid refuge and worked for Asha Projects, a specialist refuge for South Asian survivors of domestic violence and has been active in campaigns and policy-making to combat violence against women and girls since 1999. Dr Ruth Lewis is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on feminist activism and gender-based violence (GBV). Recent work examines GBV in universities and activism about it, online abuse of feminists, feminism amongst women students, and women-only space as a political strategy. Earlier research examined legal responses to intimate partner violence, including perpetrators programmes, and a sociological examination of homicide. She has been involved in feminist activism and networks of various kinds, in academic and other communities.
