Gender-Based Violence in the Global South

Ramona Biholar is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. Her teaching, research, and publications intersect in the areas of international human rights law, gender and the law, the right to development, and Caribbean reparations. She has over ten years of experience in government and civil society human rights capacity building.Dacia L. Leslie has researched and published widely in the last six years on tertiary crime prevention and social justice. She is the 2022 UWI Mona/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Award recipient, a Commonwealth Scholar, Canada-CARICOM Scholar, and a Research Associate of the Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island.

Despite decades of women’s movement campaigning, legislative change and responses from states and International human rights bodies, gender-based violence, continues to be a resistant global challenge. In Gender-Based Violence in the Global South: Ideologies, Resistances, Responses, and Transformations, Biholar and Leslie examine this complex social and gendered phenomena drawing on a wide range of comparative and diverse analyses from the Global South, to produce a rich collection that is globally relevant, shedding new light on a persistent challenge.Rhoda Reddock, Professor Emerita, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine CampusThis collection from the Global South tackles the epidemic of gender-based violence, addressing structural constraints while crucially inviting us to connect specific and determined efforts to challenge the status quo. An urgent and necessary contribution.Alissa Trotz, Professor, Caribbean Studies and Women and Gender Studies, University of TorontoThe authors are to be commended for their insightful examination of such an important global social issue. The book comprehensively interrogates gendered violence affecting women and men. It provides a roadmap for advocates, communities, and policymakers to effectively address gendered violence. This book is a must-read!Aldrie Henry-Lee, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Graduate Studies & Research, The University of the West Indies and One UWI Gender Equity and Justice CoordinatorAn invaluable resource for practitioners and professionals, providing a prism for exploring gendered violence across the particular contexts of the Global South. Its chapters analyse power, intersectionality, gendered notions of victim, survivor and perpetrator, masculinities, juvenile offenders, resistance, culture, faith, and institutional mechanisms, all of which constitute structures and systems that reproduce violence in the Global South.Hilary Gbedemah, Former Chair, UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)Each of the selected works allows us to hear the voices of women from the Global South, their struggles, and learnings. A careful edition that presents both national and regional perspectives, as well as different strategies and sensitivities to confront the phenomenon of GBV.Marcela Huaita, Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI/OAS Committee of Experts)

• 1: Explorations of Gender-Based Violence in the Global South: Introduction I. Constructions of Masculinity and the Perpetration of Gender-Based Violence 2: Stories of Masculinity and Violence of Male Homicide Perpetrators in Argentina 3: Constructing South African Juvenile Sexual Offenders: An Analysis of How Juvenile Sexual Offences are Shaped by Sexual Violence and Childhood Discourses II. Artistic Interpretations of Gender-Based Violence Victimisation and Perpetration 4: The Don as Pawn: Violence and Women’s Patriarchal Bargain in King of Boys 5: ‘Written Warnings’: Literary Representations of Caribbean Female Experiences with Gender-Based Violence in Anglophone Caribbean Female-Authored Poetry III. State Responses to Women’s Resistance and Mobilisation against Gender-Based Violence 6: Between Shutdown and Lockdown─Defeating Gender-Based Violence: Lessons from South Africa 7: Resistance to Political Violence Against Women in Turkey: The Istanbul Convention Saves Lives IV. Legal and Policy Mechanisms to Address Gender-Based Violence and Ensure Access to Justice 8: Protection and Access to Justice of Victims of Gender-Based Violence in Mexico: An Institutional Critique 9: Brazilian Responses to Gender-Based Violence in a Global Perspective: Designing Intersectional Policies to Protect and Empower Women and Girls 10: Intimate Partner Violence and Its Effects on Women’s Health in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname: The Mitigating Role of Educational Attainment and Socioeconomic Status V. Engaging Cultural and Religious Values for Meaningful Social Transformations and Institutional Frameworks to Address GBV 11: From Act to Action: Engaging with Culture and Faith to End Domestic Violence in the Pacific 12: Gender and Enforcement: The Worldviews of VAWC Desk officers as Frontline Service Providers in the Anti-Violence Against Women Campaign in the Philippines 13: Conclusion: GBV in the Global South: Triggers, Prevalence, Societal Impacts and Future Direction