Women and Violence: The Agency of Victims and Perpetrators (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)

Chapter 4 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political responses to the issues examined. "Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. The first part ('time') examines generational differences between women: it shows how the Soviet system shaped understandings and experiences of same-sex desire, and how same-sex identities and communities have been renegotiated since the demise of state socialism. The second part ('space') attends to regional variation in contemporary Russia, by considering what 'lesbian' life looks like in metropolitan Moscow and in the provincial city of Ul'ianovsk. Francesca Stella details how women negotiate their sexualities across different social spaces (the home, the workplace, the street) and explores how 'lesbian' space is collectively carved out. Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia queries essentialist accounts of Russian sexualities as exceptional and foregrounds gender as key in shaping women's experiences. The book problematizes western-centric theorizations by critically engaging with existing perspectives on queer geotemporalities, post/socialist modernity and the value of public in/visibility." Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Rape, Women’s Autonomy and Male Complicity....Pages 15-33 Women between Agency and Coercion....Pages 34-51 Prostitution and the Concept of Agency....Pages 52-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Self-Harm as Violence: When Victim and Perpetrator Are One....Pages 71-90 Autonomy, Value and Violence: Assessing Substantive Accounts of Autonomy....Pages 91-109 Female Suicide Bombers and Autonomy....Pages 110-128 Women Raping Men....Pages 129-141 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women — A Reassessment....Pages 145-161 Violence, Techno-Transcendence and Feminism: Thinking about Agency in the Digital Age....Pages 162-177 ‘Not Just Victims ... But’: Toward a Critical Theory of the Victim....Pages 178-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Women’s Agency and the Fallacy of Autonomy: The Example of Rape and Sexual Consent....Pages 197-215 What Is Violence?....Pages 216-231 Ontology, Freedom and the Body That Can Birth....Pages 232-249 Back Matter....Pages 251-257 This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume addresses such debates as the extent of women's agency in frameworks of the victim, survivor, or perpetrator; the power of gendered norms, constructs and stereotypes about female violence; and practical concerns about how feminists can escape polarisations in understandings of agency in order to deal with violence done to and by women. The volume contributes to the theoretical debate and is philosophical in its focus, whilst also seeking to draw on the insights of other disciplines. It also engages with practical questions, and offers some social and political responses to the issues examined. This book has one open access chapter under a CC BY license This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume addresses such debates as the extent of women's agency in frameworks of the victim, survivor, or perpetrator; the power of gendered norms, constructs and stereotypes about female violence; and practical concerns about how feminists can escape polarisations in understandings of agency in order to deal with violence done to and by women. The volume contributes to the theoretical debate and is philosophical in its focus, whilst also seeking to draw on the insights of other disciplines. It also engages with practical questions, and offers some social and political responses to the issues examined. Chapter 4 of this book is open access under a CC BY license This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men confront this contradictory expectation This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities. This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. It contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political responses to the issues examined. This book has one open access chapter under a CC BY license Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity