Interrogating violence against women and state violence policy: Gendered intersectionalities and the quality of policy in The Netherlands, Sweden and the Uk

Hearn, Jeff, Strid, Sofia, Husu, Liisa and Verloo, Mieke (2016) Interrogating violence against women and state violence policy: Gendered intersectionalities and the quality of policy in The Netherlands, Sweden and the Uk. Current Sociology, 64 (4). pp. 551-567. ISSN 0011-3921

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Abstract

This article builds on feminist scholarship on intersectionality to address violence against
women, and state policy thereon. It takes up the challenge of analysing the complex, situated and spatial relationship between theorizing on violence against women and state policy on such violence. Drawing on extensive comparative European data, it explores the relations of gender and intersectionality, conceptualized as gendered intersectionalities, by examining how multiple inequalities are made visible and invisible in state policy and debates in the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Attention is paid to different forms of gendered intersectionalities in policy, for example, tendencies to degender violence against women. A key aim of the article is to investigate how comparative analysis can be a starting point for assessing if, how and to what extent the inclusion of multiple inequalities could increase the quality of policy, for both reducing and stopping violence, and assisting those subject to violence.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Schools:	School of Human and Health Sciences
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Depositing User:	Elizabeth Boulton
Date Deposited:	01 Aug 2016 09:21
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2016 12:27
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/29115

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