Violence against Women of African Descent

Anita Kalunta-Crumpton is professor of administration of justice at Texas Southern University.

Violence against Women of African Descent testifies to the established track record 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 global epidemic that does not attract the deserved scholarly attention anywhere and especially 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 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.

• Part I: Violence against Women of African Descent in AfricaChapter 1: Violence against Women: Women’s Struggle for the Rights to Collective Land in Morocco by Soumia BoutkhilChapter 2: Violence against Women and the Feasibility of an Early Warning System in Kenya by Karatu Kiemo, Jesca Kinoti and Winnie MuneneChapter 3: Obtrusive Forms of Violence against Young Women in Zimbabwe by Viola Matunhu, Jephias Matunhu and Anita Kalunta-CrumptonChapter 4: Violence against Women: The Case of Ghana by Maame Yaa Akyiaa Barnes and Joseph Appiahene-GyamfiChapter 5: Perspectives on the Correlational and Consequential Factors of Violence against Women in Ethiopia by Meseret Kassahun Desta and Pietro ToggiaChapter 6: Violence against Women: A Snubbed Tragedy in South Africa by Kgomotso Pearl Bosilong and Paulin MbeckeChapter 7: Trafficking of Women: The Nigerian Experience by Udo Chikezie Osisiogu, Ngozi Osarenren and Anita Kalunta-CrumptonPart II: Violence against Women of African Descent in Australia, Europe and North AmericaChapter 8: The Double Entrapment of Nigerian Women in Italy: Between Humanitarianism and Sexual Governance by Caterina Peroni and Elisa RapettiChapter 9: Human Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation and African Women in Spain: Invisible Slaves of the Twenty-First Century by Elisa García-EspañaChapter 10: Violence Against African Women and Girls in Britain: An Exploratory Assessment by Timi Osidipe and Nenadi AdamuChapter 11: African Refugee Women in Australia: Domestic and Family Violence Experience by Ndungi wa Mungai and Lydia Wanja GitauChapter 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-WortleyChapter 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 CaribbeanChapter 14: An Inquiry into Violence against Afro-Trinbagonian Women by Indira RampersadChapter 15: The Circumstances of Afro-Jamaican Women and their Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence by Camille Gibson, Marika Dawkins and Dahlia StoddartChapter 16: Webs of Captivity: On the Coloniality of the Brazilian Justice System by Dina Alves