Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-8096-0 • Hardback • October 2019 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4985-8097-7 • eBook • October 2019 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
Anita Kalunta-Crumpton is professor of administration of justice at Texas Southern University.
Part I: Violence against Women of African Descent in Africa
Chapter 1: Violence against Women: Women’s Struggle for the Rights to Collective Land in Morocco by Soumia Boutkhil
Chapter 2: Violence against Women and the Feasibility of an Early Warning System in Kenya by Karatu Kiemo, Jesca Kinoti and Winnie Munene
Chapter 3: Obtrusive Forms of Violence against Young Women in Zimbabwe by Viola Matunhu, Jephias Matunhu and Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
Chapter 4: Violence against Women: The Case of Ghana by Maame Yaa Akyiaa Barnes and Joseph Appiahene-Gyamfi
Chapter 5: Perspectives on the Correlational and Consequential Factors of Violence against Women in Ethiopia by Meseret Kassahun Desta and Pietro Toggia
Chapter 6: Violence against Women: A Snubbed Tragedy in South Africa by Kgomotso Pearl Bosilong and Paulin Mbecke
Chapter 7: Trafficking of Women: The Nigerian Experience by Udo Chikezie Osisiogu, Ngozi Osarenren and Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
Part II: Violence against Women of African Descent in Australia, Europe and North America
Chapter 8: The Double Entrapment of Nigerian Women in Italy: Between Humanitarianism and Sexual Governance by Caterina Peroni and Elisa Rapetti
Chapter 9: Human Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation and African Women in Spain: Invisible Slaves of the Twenty-First Century by Elisa García-España
Chapter 10: Violence Against African Women and Girls in Britain: An Exploratory Assessment by Timi Osidipe and Nenadi Adamu
Chapter 11: African Refugee Women in Australia: Domestic and Family Violence Experience by Ndungi wa Mungai and Lydia Wanja Gitau
Chapter 12: Violence against Black Women in the Great White North: Exploring the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence among Black Women from a Canadian Context by Kanika Samuels-Wortley
Chapter 13: Immigrant African Women: A Neglected Minority in the Fight against Intimate Partner Violence in the United States by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
Part III: Violence against Women of African Descent in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chapter 14: An Inquiry into Violence against Afro-Trinbagonian Women by Indira Rampersad
Chapter 15: The Circumstances of Afro-Jamaican Women and their Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence by Camille Gibson, Marika Dawkins and Dahlia Stoddart
Chapter 16: Webs of Captivity: On the Coloniality of the Brazilian Justice System by Dina Alves
Violence against Women of African Descent testifies to the established track record of Anita Kalunta-Crumpton as an editor who has carved a niche in Pan African Studies by collegially collecting contributions from around the world to cover relatively neglected fields of study. In this book, she demonstrates that violence against women is a global epidemic that does not attract the deserved scholarly attention anywhere and especially when the victimized are marginalized women of African descent. The original contribution of the book is a timely reminder that violence against women is a violation against all of humanity because such violence, when tolerated, tends to escalate violent crimes and intensify the structural violence that accompanies racist-imperialist-patriarchy in societies structured in dominance. Violence against women anywhere is therefore a threat of violence against all of humanity everywhere, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr.
— Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech
In a unique collection that includes contributions from countries and populations that so far have not told their gender victimization stories, Kalunta-Crumpton has produced an original volume that reveals the many facets of violent victimization of women of African ancestry. This book provides insightful discussions and analyses of forms of gender violence in sixteen countries spread over four continents. From Morocco to Zimbabwe, to immigrant African communities in Australia, Europe, and the United States, contributors analyze the experiences of hard-to-reach and often silenced populations regarding their gender-related violence—physical, emotional, communal, and societal. This important edited collection is highly recommended for students in sociology, criminology, and legal, African, and gender studies, as well as the general public.
— Edna Erez, University of Illinois at Chicago