Overcoming Violence against Women and Girls The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem

by Nardos, Rahel; Radpour, Mary K.; Hatcher, William S.; Penn, Michael L.

• ISBN13: 9780742525009
• ISBN10: 0742525007
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

A vivid overview of the scope of the problem of gender-based violence worldwide, and a sense of the important work now underway to eradicate it.

Author Biography

Michael L. Penn is a professor of psychology at Franklin and Marshall College and an affiliate professor of psychology at Landegg International University in Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
The Globalization of the Effort to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence	2	(11)
Where Do We Go from Here?	13	(4)
The Nature of Authentic Human Relationships	17	(2)
The Nature of Moral Education	19	(4)
Part I Global Prevalence of Gender-Based Inequality and Violence
Confronting Structural Violence against Women and Girls: The Principle and Practice of Gender Equality	23	(18)
Gender Inequality and Structural Violence	24	(9)
The Idea of Gender Equality: Implications for the Organization of Society	33	(3)
Organic Equality and Human Interdependence	36	(1)
The Ontological Basis of Gender Equality	37	(4)
Sexual Violence against Women and Girls	41	(30)
Incest and Child Sexual Abuse	41	(1)
Sexual Inequality in Child-Rearing Practices	42	(2)
Underestimating the Damage Caused by Childhood Sexual Abuse	44	(2)
Trafficking in Women	46	(3)
The Role of Human Rights Law in Eradicating Trafficking	49	(3)
Rape and Sexual Abuse by Armed Forces	52	(2)
Rape as a Widely Used Weapon and Instrument of Domination and Control	54	(2)
The Health Consequences of Rape	56	(2)
Sexual Harassment	58	(1)
Cyberporn and the Sexual Exploitation of Children	59	(2)
U.S. National Child Sex Offender Registration Laws	61	(3)
Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of the Problem: The Challenge of Self-Mastery	64	(7)
Physical Abuse	71	(16)
Battering	71	(2)
Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships	73	(2)
Violence against Domestic and Migrant Workers	75	(1)
Conceptualizing Domestic Violence as Torture	76	(3)
The Impact of Gender-Based Violence on Children	79	(8)
Part II Culturally Sanctioned Forms of Violence
Culture, Traditional Practices, and Gender-Based Violence	87	(18)
Female Circumcision/Female Surgery	88	(1)
What Is Female Genital Circumcision?	89	(8)
The Nature and Prevalence of Dowry Murder	97	(4)
The Role of the Legal Culture	101	(4)
Part III Efforts to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence
The Role of Education	105	(14)
Material Education	106	(1)
Human Education	107	(2)
Spiritual Education	109	(1)
The Concept of Spirituality	110	(3)
Spiritual Development and the Social Order	113	(6)
The Authenticity Project	119	(24)
Overview of the Ethics of the Authenticity Project	121	(2)
Basic Framework of the International Moral Education Project	123	(16)
Love, Power, and Justice
The Authenticity Project on Social Norms and Material and Spiritual Values	139	(4)
The Development of Emotional Competence	143	(16)
The Role of Men in Eradicating Gender-Based Violence	159	(8)
Religious Communities	162	(2)
Educational Institutions	164	(1)
Places of Employment	164	(3)
Why Have Hope? Some Final Reflections on the Global Campaign to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence	167	(14)
Why Have Hope?	168	(11)
A Closing Word	179	(2)
Appendix A Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women	181	(6)
Appendix B Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	187	(12)
Appendix C Draft Convention against Sexual Exploitation (January 1994)	199	(16)
Appendix D Summary of the Global Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration	215	(8)
Appendix E Mission Statement for the Authenticity Project	223	(4)
Notes	227	(18)
Index	245	(10)
About the Author	255