The concept and measurement of violence against women and men

Walby, Sylvia; Towers, Jude; Balderston, Susan; Corradi, Consuelo; Francis, Brian; Heiskanen, Markku; Helweg‐Larsen, Karin; Mergaert, Lut; Olive, Phillipa; Palmer, E. Laurence; Stöckl, Heidi; Strid, Sofia

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“…29,5). Con cada aumento unitario de edad, el riesgo de feminicidio se reducía en un 3% (IC: 0,95-0,99); el riesgo de feminicidio fue un 40% menor (IC: 0,40-0,90) en las mujeres con hasta siete años de escolaridad, en comparación con las que tenían ocho años o más; las mujeres agredidas mediante fuerza corporal tuvieron un riesgo 5,5 (IC: 2,[6][7][8][9][10][11]3) veces mayor de feminicidio, en comparación con las que fueron agredidas con arma de fuego; y un riesgo de feminicidio de 1,4 (IC: 1,1-2,7) quienes fueron asesinadas durante el día, en relación con quienes murieron de noche. La proporción de feminicidio de este estudio fue inferior a las estimaciones previas en Brasil y la carga local de la criminalidad urbana parece explicar parte de esta divergencia.…”

Section: Cad Saúde Pública 2019; 35(8):e00230418unclassified

“…Still, given the difficulties in classifying such a complex phenomenon 6 , some authors have defined femicide more widely, including any intentional murder of women 7,8 . Femicide rates vary according to the sociocultural and political context in which women live 6,9,10,11 . The magnitude of femicide estimates also depends intrinsically on the strategy used to define and count the deaths, which may or may not bear a relationship to gender issues.…”

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Violência urbana e fatores de risco relacionados ao feminicídio em contexto amazônico brasileiro

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Resumo: Apesar de sua gravidade, o feminicídio é pouco investigado e suas estimativas dependem das estratégias usadas à sua caracterização, do contexto sociocultural e político. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os homicídios intencionais de mulheres, com enfoque nos feminicídios, destacando suas características e fatores de risco. Estudo transversal, baseado em vigilância diária de homicídios na imprensa e em registros de mortalidade. Foram consideradas vítimas fatais por agressões, mortes de mulheres maiores de 11 anos, residentes em Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil, em 2016-2017. A classificação de feminicídios baseou-se na Lei nº 13.104/2015. O risco relativo foi estimado mediante regressão de Poisson e um modelo hierárquico foi empregado para a introdução das variáveis nos modelos. As análises foram efetuadas no software R. De 138 vítimas fatais por agressões, 52 foram feminicídios, 37,7% (IC: 29,4-45,5). A cada acréscimo unitário de idade o risco de feminicídio reduzia em 3% (IC: 0,95-0,99). O risco de feminicídio foi 40% menor (IC: 0,40-0,90) nas mulheres com até sete anos de escolaridade, em comparação às que tinham oito anos ou mais; as mulheres agredidas mediante força corporal tiveram risco 5,5 (IC: 2,6-11,3) vezes maior de feminicídio, em comparação às que foram agredidas com arma de fogo; e risco de feminicídio de 1,4 (IC: 1,1-2,7) nas que foram mortas durante o dia, em relação às que morreram de noite. A proporção de feminicídio deste estudo foi inferior a estimativas prévias no Brasil e a carga local da criminalidade urbana parece explicar parte desta divergência. Este trabalho demonstrou que idade, escolaridade, uso da força corporal e turno da agressão estão associados ao feminicídio.

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“…La violencia contra las mujeres no es el resultado de actos individuales de mala conducta. Es un problema profundamente arraigado en las relaciones estructurales entre mujeres y hombres que produce tanto desigualdades económicas como de participación en las instituciones públicas y en la toma de decisiones económicas (Naciones Unidas 2006, Walby et al 2017).…”

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Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres = Equality Between Women and Men

Barbera

2019

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Resumen: Este artículo trata de la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres como principio fundamental del Estado de Derecho. Se ilustran aquí las tres dimensiones interconectadas de la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres contenidas en la Convención para la eliminación de toda forma de discriminación hacia las mujeres (CEDAW). La CEDAW no se limita a considerar la dimensión formal de la igualdad o igualdad en derechos. Apunta a la necesidad de abordar la dimensión material de la igualdad, o igualdad de hecho, e indica las acciones positivas necesarias para ello. La concepción de la igualdad contenida en la CEDAW apela a su dimensión transformativa, es decir, apunta a la eliminación de los estereotipos y las estructuras sociales que perjudican a las mujeres y aspira a transformar la sociedad en su conjunto en términos igualitarios. Siguiendo recomendaciones recientes del Comité CEDAW, se señala finalmente la necesidad de considerar las discriminaciones que sufren las mujeres como el resultado de la intersección de las estructuras de género con otros ejes de desigualdad interconectadas.Palabras clave: Igualdad formal, Igualdad de hecho, CEDAW, Igualdad transformativa, Interseccionalidad, cambio social, justicia global.Abstract: This article addresses equality between women and men as a fundamental principle of the Rule of Law. The three interconnected dimensions of equality between women and men that are contained in the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are here illustrated. CEDAW does not restrain its focus to the formal dimension of equality or equality before the law. It points to the need to address the substantive dimension of equality, or equality de facto, and indicates the positive measures needed to this end. The conception of equality contained in the CEDAW appeals to the transformative dimension of equality, that is to say, it aims to eliminate stereotypes and social structures that harm women and to transform society as a whole in egalitarian terms. Following recent recommendations of CEDAW Committee, the need to consider women’s discrimination as the result of the intersection of gender structures with other interconnected axes of inequality is finally pointed out.Keywords: Formal equality, Substantive equality, CEDAW, Transformative equality, Intersectionality, social change, global justice.

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“…This is partly rooted in the difficulty when conceptualising violence per se. In fact, as suggested by sociological research in these lines, determining the boundaries of what stands for violence and not-violence is hard, especially in practice Walby, Towers et al, 2017). Reasons for this are multiple and are related to, inter alia, whether violence is actual, intended or threatened, the diverse interpretations of concepts such as harm, or the repetition of violent events (Walby, Towers et al, 2017).…”

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“…In fact, as suggested by sociological research in these lines, determining the boundaries of what stands for violence and not-violence is hard, especially in practice Walby, Towers et al, 2017). Reasons for this are multiple and are related to, inter alia, whether violence is actual, intended or threatened, the diverse interpretations of concepts such as harm, or the repetition of violent events (Walby, Towers et al, 2017). Not surprisingly, this conceptual fuzziness has triggered methodological divergences when trying to provide reliable accounts of violent events (Walby, Towers et al, 2017).…”

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Corpus-driven insights into the discourse of women survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

Sánchez-Moya

2018

QF ELING

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Despite its ubiquity, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is still under-researched from a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) perspective. Thus, this paper investigates the discourse of women survivors of IPV focusing on a corpus-driven examination of the data. This is done after applying the text-analysis software tool LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) to a 120,000-word corpus collected from an anonymised, public, online forum available to IPV survivors. I contrast a plethora of linguistic phenomena in three online communities embedded within this forum (‘Is it Abuse?’, ‘Getting out’ and ‘Life after abuse’) in the attempt to sketch out how the discursive output varies across these three stages. This paper shows how pronominal distribution plays a role in the forging of collective identity. Differences in the emotional tone across the three explored groups are also identified. Useful though these corpus-driven pointers may be, this study also warns of the precaution with which findings solely deriving from quantitative analyses need to be treated.

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The concept and measurement of violence against women and men

Cited by 109 publications

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Violência urbana e fatores de risco relacionados ao feminicídio em contexto amazônico brasileiro

Violência urbana e fatores de risco relacionados ao feminicídio em contexto amazônico brasileiro

Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres = Equality Between Women and Men

Corpus-driven insights into the discourse of women survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

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