Violence by women is frequently sensationalised, abetting misogynistic tropes that characterise violent women as ‘evil’, ‘unnatural’ and masculine. Favouring more complex analyses of this behaviour, The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence highlights and challenges normative accounts of women’s violence and offers new multidimensional conceptualisations of these acts, furthering understanding of this topic from a feminist perspective.
Responding to a growing research interest, contributors present a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of international and interdisciplinary scholarship on different aspects of women’s violence. Drawing on both empirical and secondary data, chapters incorporate familiar themes of intimate violence, homicide, terrorism and combat as well as wider content such as women’s involvement in violent nationalist movements and their role in perpetrating obstetric harms.
The only publication of its kind in terms of its scope, interdisciplinarity and feminist perspective, The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence breaks fresh ground by unveiling how violence is understood and enabling new links and connections to be made across previously disparate areas.
Introduction; Stacy Banwell, Lynsey Black, Dawn K. Cecil, Yanyi K. Djamba, Sitawa R. Kimuna, Emma Milne, Lizzie Seal, and Eric Y Tenkorang
Historical Perspectives
Chapter 1. No Explanation Needed: Gendered Narratives of Violent Crime; Stephanie Emma Brown
Chapter 2. “A hard-working and nice person”? Respectability, Femininity, and Infanticide in England and Wales, 1800-2000; Daniel J.R. Grey
Chapter 3. The Voices of Violent Women in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; Elaine Farrell
Chapter 4. The Many Defences of Maria Barberi: Challenges to a Victim-Based Agency; Rian Sutton
Understanding Women’s Acts of Violence
Chapter 5. An Investigation of Forms and Drivers of Violence Perpetrated by Women in Lesotho: The case of Maseru Female Correctional Facility; Josphine Hapazari
Chapter 6. Bargaining with Patriarchy, Resisting Sisterarchy: Contextualising Women’s Participation in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C); Emmaleena Käkelä
Chapter 7. Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Unraveling their Victim-Offender Status; Marta Codina, Diego A. Díaz-Faes, and Noemí Pereda
Chapter 8. Negotiating vulnerability: Contextualizing Nigerian female sex workers’ violence against male clients; Ediomo-Ubong Nelson and Tasha Ramirez
Women as Perpetrators of Interpersonal and Intimate Violence
Chapter 9. Domestic Abuse: Analysing Women’s Use of Violence; Leticia Couto
Chapter 10. Typology of Female Offenders in Intimate Partnerships – A Feminist Approach; Rebecca Gulowski
Chapter 11. Men’s Self-Reported Experiences of Women’s Controlling Behaviours and Intimate Partner Violence in Kenya; Eric Y. Tenkorang, Alice Pearl Sedziafa, and Sitawa R. Kimuna
Chapter 12. “She Ended Up Controlling Every Aspect of My Life”: Male Victims’ Narratives of Intimate Partner Abuse Perpetrated by Women; Alexandra Lysova and Kenzie Hanson
Power and Women’s Violence
Chapter 13. Obstetric Violence: A Form of Gender-Based Violence; Catarina Barata, Vânia Simões, and Francisca Soromenho
Chapter 14. By Any Other Name: The Difficulties of Recognising Female Police Violence; Michael Branch
Chapter 15. Women’s Violence in Armed Conflict: Toward Feminist Analysis and Response; Alexis Henshaw
Women and Non-State Political Violence
Chapter 16. Strategic Silences and Epistemic Resistance: Agency of Women Ex-Combatants in ‘Post-War’ Space; Keshab Giri
Chapter 17. The Representation of Women’s Involvement in (non-state) Political Violence: Dominant Myths and Narratives Surrounding “Radicalised” Women in the UK; Itoiz Rodrigo Jusué
Chapter 18. News Media Framing of Female Ex-combatants in a Post-conflict Society; Ashleigh McFeeters
Chapter 19. Feminists? Armed: Gender and The Question of Political Violence; Tammy Kovich
Chapter 20. With the Right to Kill, But Not to Lead: The Role of Women in the Spanish Terrorist Gang Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA); Claudia Mayordomo Zapata, Salvador Moreno Moreno, and José Miguel Rojo Martínez
Cultural Interpretations of Violent Women
Chapter 21. Online Discourses of Women’s Violence, Gender Equality and Societal Change; Satu Venäläinen
Chapter 22. Mental Illness/Distress in Representations of Maternal Filicide-Suicide: Silencing the Gendered Aetiologies of Violence; Denise Buiten
Chapter 23. Sad, Bad or Mad: The Denial of Agency to Women Who Kill; Belinda Morrissey
Chapter 24. ‘Evil Women’: Sexual Sadism and Murder in Britain, 1960s-1980s; Joanna Bourke
Fictional Representations of Violent Women
Chapter 25. Imagining Women’s Violence: The Femme Fatale; Katherine Farrimond
Chapter 26. Killing Eve: Television Violence as Liberation?; Rosie White
Chapter 27. Not Afraid to Kill: The First Female Literary Detective in Bengali Crime Fiction; Shampa Roy
Chapter 28. “Returning to Destroy Your World”: A Transhistorical Approach to Cultural Constructions of the Female Revenger; Stevie Simkin
Chapter 29. Women’s Violence in Tamil Mega Serials; Premalatha Karupiah
Chapter 30. Feminist Perspectives on Rape-Revenge and Necroempowerment in Narcotelenovelas and B Movies; Gabrielle Pannetier Leboeuf and Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez
Violent Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 31. Trends in Girls’ Delinquency in the United States; Meda Chesney-Lind
Chapter 32. The Importance of Language, Intersubjectivity and Recognition in Creating Space for Women’s Rehabilitation from Acts of Violence; Melanie Sheehan
Chapter 33. Female Incarceration and Criminal Selectivity: Reflections on Crime Committed by Women in Brazil; Carmen Hein de Campos and Cristina Rego de Oliveira
Chapter 34. Violence and Systemic Injustice: The Effects of Colonialism and Neoliberalism on the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada’s Criminal Justice System; Becky Ratero Greenberg and Maéva Thibeault
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