Teaching against Violence

Teaching against Violence

The Reassessing Toolbox

  • Autor: Testoni, Inez
  • Editor: Central European University Press
  • ISBN: 9786155225949
  • Lloc de publicació:  Budapest , Hungary
  • Any de publicació digital: 2014
  • Mes: Gener
  • Pàgines: 191
  • Idioma: Anglés
Teaching Against Violence deals with gender based violence, paying particular attention to domestic violence, as in this field feminism has tenaciously sought to change the condition of women and, as a result, many international policies have promoted a significant social transformation. The chapters present active techniques that were adopted during the interventions to promote women's empowerment. The contributions face these issues from various perspectives, present the state of the art research in multiple fields of study and suggest educational best practices that can be used where this problem is particularly severe.
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Foreword: Gender education as a first-line tool to fight violence against women
  • Introduction
  • The “missing link” between de jure and de facto
  • Innovative elements in the fight against gender-based and domestic violence
  • Changing women’s education: From educative punishment to empowerment
  • About the legislation against domestic violence in Europe and Italy
    • Femicide as the culmination of domestic violence
    • The International framework
    • The European Union
    • National laws in Different European Countries
    • The Italian situation
    • Local initiatives: Anti-violence centers, women’s shelters, women’s hotlines
    • Conclusions
    • Implications for teaching
    • Questions
    • Assignments
    • References.
  • The Activism of Black Feminist Theory in Confronting Violence Against Women: Interconnections, Politics and Practice
    • The Activism of black feminist theory
    • Objectify Myself: Objectify her
    • Interconnections: Relations of proximity
    • Lorde and Hill Collins’ encounter
    • Productions of distortion
    • The totalizing effect of distortion
    • The Invitation
    • Disconnection and connection
    • Moving from generality to specificity
    • ‘Uses of the Erotic’: Fear and proximity
    • ‘Uses of the Erotic’: The spatial politics of fear
    • ‘Uses of the Erotic’: Bridge of connection
    • Conclusion
    • Implications for Teaching
    • Questions
    • Assignments
    • References
  • “Brothers for life”: A campaign addressing gender based violence on (de/re) constructing masculinities in South Africa. “Yenza Kahle!” - Do the Right thing!
    • Introduction
    • “Talking” policies
    • The Brothers for Life campaign
    • Implications for teaching
    • Questions
    • Assignments questions
    • References
  • Gender, Deviance and Institutional Violence in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries: An Analysis of Two Filmic Representations of Abuse
    • Introduction
    • Portraying gender polarities
    • Intra-institutional terror
    • Conclusions
    • Implications for teaching
    • Questions
    • References
  • Gender and domestic violence in Portugal: intervention practices and their effects
  • Introduction
  • Research developments in Portugal
  • Establishing group intervention program
  • Results and discussion
  • Implications for practice
  • Final remarks
  • Implications for teaching
  • Questions
  • Additional assignments for group/ individual work
  • References
  • The effectiveness of the EMPoWER project and intervention: Psychodrama and the elaboration of domestic violence in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, and Albania
  • “Overcoming Female Subordination”: An experimental process of empowerment—through sociodrama and digital storytelling—directed toward a group of Italian female undergraduates
  • Conclusion
  • List of Contributors
  • back cover