...Feminists on both sides of the 1980s sex wars used Marxist theory to analyze sexual violence, its relationship to pornography, and whether pornography liberated or oppressed women. In their analyses, they considered three core Marxist concepts: class, commodity, and consumption. While most agreed...

... communities of practice habituation habitus healthcare homemaking hybridisation hysteresis identity microaggressions ‘mobility capital’ social capital symbolic violence determinacy undeliberate and indeterminacy deliberate embeddedness English language expatriation ‘seed’ France friendship...

... affected by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. It continues to draw on Bourdieusian theory, particularly hysteresis and symbolic violence concepts, to ascertain if and how participants’ migrancy habitus has been disrupted by ‘Brexit’. With an emphasis on the affective experience of the EU...

... of delimiting the fertility of a certain demography – obstetric violence and repro-genetic technologies – to argue that forced contraceptive, limiting (legal) access to contraceptive, exposing women to violence during pregnancy and birthing, and the inherent stratifications of new repro-genetic technologies...

.... Building on theoretical and political standpoints that emerge as feminist scholars interrogate and engage with the body, this chapter explores notions of reproductive violence and stratified access to reproductive health. It argues that southern African countries domesticate international policies...

...This chapter explores the contested vocabularies used to name and conceptualise birth violence across a range of geopolitical contexts. Using a transnational feminist approach, it argues that a tendency towards geopolitical bifurcation (rooted in racist and colonial historical legacies) frames...

...This chapter interrogates the utility of the term obstetric violence in the Indian context using ethnographic insights from research conducted between 2015 and 2019 in two geographically distinct areas of India, as well as the scholarship on obstetric violence, disrespect and abuse and respectful...

... of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Taxation was imposed with violence in the first three decades of British rule in Solomon Islands and met with indigenous resistance and protest. However, as decolonisation unfolded in the 1960s and 1970s, indigenous Solomon Islanders took control of taxation to fund...

... environmental picaresque novel Animal’s People (2007) so as to illustrate how corporate power, and racialized spaces of breathlessness, are evidence of both spectacular and the more spectral forms of slow violence. breath Derrida Jacques Fanon Frantz Irigaray Luce Rose Arthur aesthetics affect Bhopal...

... and biracial teenagers, a Latino university undergraduate student, and a white college professor in the US Midwest. It highlights the racialised injustices of exclusion in the US with an emphasis on youth grappling with the challenges of violence and peace in their daily lives. Using Participant Action...

... efforts to present themselves as the party of orderliness and the family interest, in opposition to the supposedly rowdy, masculinist culture of organised labour. Bottomley Horatio by elections film and politics Germany Pemberton Billing Noel ‘radical right’ violence in British politics British...

...Doris Lessing's key novels of the period 1945–1960 examine the years leading up to World War II and the early to middle years of the war itself. The umbrella title of the five-volume novel sequence is Children of Violence, which is indicative not only of Lessing's preoccupation...

... of distress and anxiety for patients and families and that violence and abusive behaviour perpetrated by, and on, the mentally ill, in addition to, suicidal behaviour formed the backdrop to most asylum certifications. The chapter also elucidates how the public nature of dangerous lunatic certifications, which...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume, which is about the ‘crisis’ of democracy that is manifest in the increased violence provoked by radical difference or alterity in Western democratic communities and its significance for the thinking and the practical development...

... and resistance available to them. ‘immorality’ moral neglect incest Catholic Church child children legislation Bailey Victor Blackburn Sheila National Vigilance Association NVA Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes 1884–85 wife beating domestic violence Fitzgerald Kenney James unmarried...

...As with incestuous abuse, recourse was limited for women in situations of domestic violence and desertion in Ireland. The NSPCC was, however, a port of call where wives who were also mothers could turn to for advice. Chapter Six addresses this topic, and in particular the treatment of women...

..., connections between maternity and the depiction of violence are traced to show how an assertion of the maternal, both in rhetoric and through dramatic spectacle, serves to emblematise both the causes and consequences of conflict and to elicit an affective response that invites reconsideration of the political...

... of religious violence. Over the centuries, its gruesome reputation has generated numerous conspiracy theories. This book seeks dispassionately to sift the evidence and follow where it leads, but also to understand how contemporaries came to terms with the events of 1572. It also follows the reactions of those...

...I examine anarchist debates in the U.S. concerning revolutionary violence before and after America joined the conflict in April, 1917, the strategies adopted by movement artists to address Statist violence and the cataclysm of war, and critiques of Communist violence during the Russian Revolution...

... Violence Non-Western Counter-terrorism Insurgency Since 2001, the world has witnessed an unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism activity, effectively transforming what was once largely a domestic policy issue into one of vast international significance. ¹ The September 11th attacks...