Gender-Based Violence and Development: Impacts on Social Progress

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.