This volume presents a multi-disciplinary rendition of a rich, nuanced and contextually grounded outlook of gender-based violence (GBV) based on African experiences. The authors cover the roots, manifestations, and solutions to GBV while problematizing cultural practices, and government policies.
Oliver Mtapuri is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, UKZN, South Africa.Nolwazi Cynthia Dlamini is a Doctor in the School of Social Sciences, UNISA, South Africa.
Chapter 1: Preface.- Chapter 2: Masculinity Through the Eyes of Sex Offenders: Perceptions of the ‘Real Man’.- Chapter 3: Domestic violence in Ghana: exploring first-hand accounts of incarcerated male perpetrators based in Nsawam prison.- Chapter 4: Africanising the Gender-Based Violence Discourse.- Chapter 5: Using culture - the concept of ‘unhu’ or Ubuntu concept to fight Gender Based Violence, the case of Chinhamhora chiefdom, Domboshawa, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6: A critical analysis of structural factors that aggravate gender-based violence within nuclear families.- Chapter 7: Gender-Based Violence Disclosures (Izigaxa) of Young Women Enrolled in a Socioeconomic and Curriculum-Based Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Opportunities for Integrating Trauma-informed Care.- Chapter 8: Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Practice in Addressing Gender-Based, Domestic, and Sexual Violence Against Women and Children in KwaZulu-Natal: A Policy Brief.- Chapter 9: Grassroots Resilience and Empowering Change: Women’s Working Groups and the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence in Rural South Africa.- Chapter 10: Empowering men and boys as a way to curb Gender Based Violence: A South African Perspective.- Chapter 11: Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Human Rights at Risk, Development in Peril.- Chapter 12: Digital intimacies and teenage girls’ negotiation of consent and coercion on social media in South Africa.