Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy

by Sylvia Jane Burrow

Overview

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

In often mundane but sometimes quite obvious ways, persons belonging to groups routinely threatened with harm on the basis of gender and sexuality suffer restrictions to choice and action, impairing autonomy. Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy shows that resistance to, and cultivating resiliency within, a culture of gender violence is key to fostering autonomy.

Building on decades of research philosophically interrogating autonomy and its limits, and with a martial arts background spanning over twenty-five years, Professor Burrow develops a novel approach to autonomy development under everyday threats of violence. Appealing to empirical research to ground its philosophical analysis, the theory presented in this book establishes that cultivating self-confidence through self-defense training is a significant strategy contributing to resistance and resilience under threats of violence and hence, autonomy development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498578875
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	01/31/2024
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Sylvia Jane Burrow is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University and adjunct professor in the faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Threat of Gender Violence

Chapter 2: Autonomy

Chapter 3: Responsibility, Resistance, and Resilience

Chapter 4: Self-Protection, Autonomy, and Self-Defense

Chapter 5: Doubting Self-Defense

Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

Gender Violence explores the myths and realities of the threat of gender-based violence and active forms of resistance to it.... [Burrow] advocates specifically for martial arts and self-defense programs rooted in feminist frameworks. These are the most successful because they resist rape culture while increasing the capacities of women and other people with marginalized identities who face high risk for sexual violence. This book is a must-read for anyone working at the intersections of gender-based violence prevention and somatic practice.Essential. All levels.

From the Publisher

Gender Violence explores the myths and realities of the threat of gender-based violence and active forms of resistance to it…. [Burrow] advocates specifically for martial arts and self-defense programs rooted in feminist frameworks. These are the most successful because they resist rape culture while increasing the capacities of women and other people with marginalized identities who face high risk for sexual violence. This book is a must-read for anyone working at the intersections of gender-based violence prevention and somatic practice.Essential. All levels.

Choice Reviews