International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence

Dongling Zhang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor from the Department of Global Languages, Cultures and Societies, Webster University, the United States of America. He earned his PhD degree in Justice Studies from Arizona State University. His research interests include university entrepreneurship education, micro-enterprise development program in China’s urban areas, social capital theories, and feminist theories. His current research focuses on the power dynamics of entrepreneurship, exploring various forms of collective and interpersonal violence instigated by the overwhelming influences of entrepreneurial ethos. It specifically examines the institutions through which a social body—the entrepreneur—is continually structured and transformed. These institutions include the family, neighborhood, labor market, government, and more. Diana Scharff Peterson, PhD, has nearly 20 years of experience in higher education teaching in the areas of research methods; comparative criminal justice systems; race, gender, class, and crime; statistics; criminology; sociology; and drugs and behavior at seven different institutions of higher education. She has been the chairperson of three different criminal justice programs over the past 20 years and has published in the areas of criminal justice, social work, higher education, sociology, business, and management. Her research interests include issues in policing (training and education) and community policing, assessment and leadership in higher education, family violence, evaluation research, and program development. She is the co-editor of Domestic Violence in International Context published by Routledge in 2017.

Foreword
Lois A. Herman

Series Editor Preface
Dilip K. Das and Vicente Riccio

Introduction: An interfaces approach to the global problems of gender-based domestic violence
Dongling Zhang and Diana Peterson

Section One: North and South America

1. The myth of the universal woman: The (white) feminist fantasy and the invisibility of violence against women of color
Roksana Badruddoja

2. Paradigm shift in Latin American legislation over time: From domestic violence laws to comprehensive legislation on gender-based violence against women (1990-2020)
Nancy Madera

3.Gender-based violence and femicide in Mexico: Why is the law failing to protect Mexico’s women?
Emily Acevedo

4. Violence against women in Mexico City: A cry for change
Flor Avellaneda and Luis R. Torres

5. Severe licking: Calypso considers domestic violence
Alison Mc Letchie and Daina Nathaniel

6. Gender-based violence in the English-speaking Caribbean: Chronicling Guyana’s progress
Aneesa A. Baboolal

7. Intersectionality as a means to understanding violence against women in Belize
Kiesha Warren-Gordon

8. The dangers of being a woman in Nicaragua
Pamela Neumann

Section Two: Asia and Oceania

9. Response to domestic violence: India
Arundhati Bhattacharyya

10. Combating domestic violence and sexual and gender-based violence during conflict: The case of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh
Tonny Kirabira and Fiza Lee-Winter

11. Malaysia responding to domestic violence: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail, Bahiyah Dato Haji Abd Hamid and Ruzy Suliza Hashim

12. From private matter to public problem: Relocating gender-based violence in China
Dongling Zhang

13. Social taboos and legal constraints: The status of domestic violence in Kuwait
Alanoud AlSharekh and Nour AlMukhled

14. “Mobilizing for punishment”: Legal activism, women's NGOs, and the grassroots in Lebanon
Sirin Knecht

15. Domestic violence in Thailand: An in-depth examination of how culture and resource-seeking barriers impact victim safety
Tanya Grant

16. Domestic violence in Micronesian context: Past and future challenges
Hiroaki Matsuura

Section Three: Africa

17. Domestic violence in Ethiopia: An overview
Fikresus Amahazion

18. Between reality and expectations: Tackling domestic violence in Egypt
Hiam Elgousi

19. Domestic and sexual violence among university students in Ghana
Michelle L. Munro-Kramer, Lindsay M. Cannon, Eugene K. M. Darteh, Ruth Owusu-Antwi, and Sarah D. Compton

20. Domestic violence, human rights, and reform in Mauritania
Nabil Ouassini and Anwar Ouassini

Section Four: Perpetrators and Victims (Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Migrant, and Refugee Populations)

21. Responding to intimate partner violence against women in Spain: Perpetrators’ accounts as a new variable to the ecological approach model
Mostafa Boieblan

22. Why domestic violence remains under-reported within migrant communities in Germany
Fiza Lee-Winter

23. Ritualized experiences of pain: Love and domestic violence among transgender women in Brazil
Thiago de Lima Oliveira and Veronica Alcantara Guerra

24. Socio-legal responses to immigrant and refugee male batterers in the EU and MENA regions
Chuka Emezue