Women and Violence

Elena Alonzo, University of Genoa, Italy Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, UK Bob Brecher, University of Brighton, UK Amanda Cawston, University of Cambridge, UK Jules Holroyd, University of Nottingham, UK Rhéa Jean, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Iain Law, University of Birmingham, UK Herjeet Marway, University of Birmingham, UK Hanna Pickard, University of Birmingham, UK Jacqui Poltera, University of Tasmania, Australia Paul Reynolds, Edge Hill University, UK Robin May Schott, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark Sarah Sorial, University of Wollongong, Australia Heather Widdows, University of Birmingham, UK Gillian Youngs, University of Brighton, UK

Introduction; Heather Widdows; Herjeet Marway PART I. WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE 1. Rape, women's autonomy, and male complicity; Sarah Sorial; Jacqui Poltera 2. Women between agency and coercion; Elena Alonzo 3. Prostitution and the concept of agency; Rhea Jean PART II. WOMEN AS PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE 4. Self-harm as violence: when victim and perpetrator are one; Hanna Pickard This chapter is available under a CC BY license via palgraveconnect.com 5. Autonomy, value and violence: assessing substantive accounts of autonomy; Jules Holroyd 6. Female suicide bombers and autonomy; Herjeet Marway 7. Women raping men; Iain Law PART III. GOVERNANCE, VIOLENCE AND AGENCY 8. Andrea Dworkin's Pornography: men possessing women - a reassessment; Bob Brecher 9. Violence, techno-transcendence and feminism: thinking about agency in the digital age; Gillian Youngs 10. 'Not Just Victims...But': Towards a Critical Theory of the Victim; Robin May Schott PART IV. THEORISING VIOLENCE AND AGENCY 11. Women's agency and the fallacy of autonomy: the example of rape and sexual consent; Paul Reynolds 12. What is violence?; Amanda Cawston 13. Ontology, freedom and the body that can birth; Alison Assiter