Gender and Violence in Haiti Women’s Path from Victims to Agents
Gender and Violence in Haiti: Women’s Path from Victims to Agents

Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to a...

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1. Verfasser: Duramy, Benedetta Faedi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2014]
Schlagworte:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Abused women > Haiti
Family violence > Haiti
Female offenders > Haiti
Girls > Violence against > Haiti
Sex crimes > Zimbabwe > Mbare
Women > Legal status, laws, etc > Haiti
Women > Violence against > Haiti
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Frau
Haiti
Online-Zugang:DE-1046
DE-Aug4
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
DE-1043
DE-858
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Zusammenfassung:Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to act in such destructive ways and what might be done to stop this tragic cycle of violence. Gender and Violence in Haiti is the product of more than a year of extensive firsthand observations and interviews with the women who have been caught up in the widespread violence plaguing Haiti. Drawing from the experiences of a diverse group of Haitian women, Faedi Duramy finds that both the victims and perpetrators of violence share a common sense of anger and desperation. Untangling the many factors that cause these women to commit violence, from self-defense to revenge, she identifies concrete measures that can lead them to feel vindicated and protected by their communities. Faedi Duramy vividly conveys the horrifying conditions pervading Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake. But Gender and Violence in Haiti also carries a message of hope—and shows what local authorities and international relief agencies can do to help the women of Haiti
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9780813563169

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