Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility - Ashlee Gore

Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility

Fatal Relationships

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
154 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-64711-7 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men’s responsibility, situating these within the personal and political intersections of neoliberal and ‘postfeminist’ imperatives of individualisation, choice, and empowerment.
Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility explores the competing and contradictory understandings of violence against women and men’s responsibility. It situates these within the personal and political intersections of neoliberal and ‘postfeminist’ imperatives of individualisation, choice, and empowerment.

As violence against women has become a national and international policy priority, feminist concerns about violence against women, and men’s responsibility, have entered the mainstream only to be articulated in politically contradictory ways. This book explores themes of responsibility for violence, and the social and legal consequences that men and women uniquely or differently encounter. By drawing on high-profile cases of homicide, an extensive literature on feminist perspectives on violence, and compelling focus group discussions, the book examines the politicised claims regarding the ‘responsibility’ of men and women as both victims and offenders in intimate relationships. Deploying a range of interdisciplinary approaches, it utilises a blend of cultural theory and psychosocial analysis to offer an account of the infiltration of postfeminist and neoliberal sensibilities of individualism and responsibilisation in the social, legal, and interpersonal imaginary. The book makes contributions to several fields, such as the current public policy initiatives to hold men accountable for violence against women; understanding public attitudes to violence against women; and contextualising the challenges faced by a number of feminist reforms that seek to address these issues.

An accessible and compelling read, Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, gender studies and those interested in understanding the debates surrounding violence against women, violence by women, and the social construction of responsibility and responsibilisation.

Ashlee Gore is Lecturer in Criminology at Western Sydney University. Her overarching research priority is gendered violence with a focus on violence against women and the social, cultural, and legal constructions of responsibility.

Introduction






Feminism, Postfeminism and the Politics of Responsibility



Lethal Relationships and Legal Ambiguities



Beyond the Law: Analysing Postfeminism, Emotion, and Affect in Public Responses to Lethal Violence



Debating Men’s Responsibility for Violence



Women’s Victimisation and Violence – The Effects of Female Individualisation



Postfeminism, men’s rights and responsibility

Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Feminist Criminology
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 254 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-367-64711-7 / 0367647117
ISBN-13 978-0-367-64711-7 / 9780367647117
Zustand Neuware
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