Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence

Jennifer R. Wies, Hillary J. Haldane, Jennifer R. Wies, Hillary J. Haldane

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780826517814
  9780826517807
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826517821
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Social Sciences

Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence is a broad and accessible volume, with a truly global approach to understanding the lives of front-line workers in women's shelters, anti-violence organizations, and outreach groups. Often written from a first-person perspective, these essays examine government workers, volunteers, and nongovernmental organization employees to present a vital picture of practical approaches to combating gender-based violence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Ethnographic Notes from the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence
• 2. Disparity in Disasters: A Frontline View of Gender-Based Inequities in Emergency Aid and Health Care
• 3. Participant and Observer: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Women's Shelter in Tokyo, Japan
• 4. Crafting Community through Narratives, Images, and Shared Experience
• 5. "We Couldn't Just Throw Her in the Street": Gendered Violence and Women's Shelters in Turkey
• 6. Institutional Resources (Un)Available: The Effects of Police Attitudes and Actions on Battered Women in Peru
• 7. Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Workers' Cultural Models of Domestic Violence: An Ethnographic Examination
• 8. Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from the Male European Front Line
• 9. Cultural Politics of a Global/Local Health Program for Battered Women in Vietnam
• 10. Global Civil Society and the Local Costs of Belonging: Defining Violence against Women in Russia
• 11. Memorializing Murder, Speaking Back to the State
• 12. Laliti, Compassionate Savior: The Hidden Archaeology of Founding a Shelter
• Contributors
• Index