The Political Economy of Violence against Women

Jacqui True is Professor of Politics and international Relations at Monash University

• Chapter 1: From Domestic Violence to War Crimes: The Political Economy of Violence Against Women ; Chapter 2: What Has Poverty Got to Do With It? Feminist Frameworks for Analyzing Violence Against Women ; Chapter 3: Losing Entitlement, Regaining Control: Masculinities and Competitive Globalization ; Chapter 4: Crossing Borders to Make Ends Meet: Sex Trafficking, the Maid Trade, and Other Gendered Forms of Labor Exploitation ; Chapter 5: New Spaces of Gender Violence: Economic Transition and Trade ; Chapter 6: Boom, Bust and Beating: International Financial Institutions, Crises, and Violence against Women ; Chapter 7: Old and New Tactics of War: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict ; Chapter 8: Rebuilding With or Without Women? Gendered Violence in Post-Conflict Peace and Reconstruction ; Chapter 9: Who Suffers Most? Gendered Violence in Natural Disasters and their Aftermath ; Chapter 10: Researching Violence Against Women: The Point is to Change it

By bringing the political economy approach to her analysis, Jacqui True has rightfully placed 'violence against women' within the web of economic, social and political realms, demonstrating that the problem is embedded in structured inequalities in relations of production and reproduction. She demystifies the often compartmentalized approaches that reduce the problem to 'victimization' and 'harm done' and reveals how gendered social and economic inequalities increase the risks of violence against women whether in the context of different hierarchical systems, neoliberal economic policies, armed conflicts, natural disasters or other crises. This book is a major contribution to the feminist debates on women's human rights and will have a positive impact on policy and practice for change.