Gender Violence
Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy
Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
Relational Autonomy Self-Confidence Self-Defense Self-Protection Ethics Feminist Philosophy Feminist Theory Gender Studies Gender-Based Violence Intimate Partner Violence Stranger Violence- 1–6 Introduction 1–6
- 23–42 2. Autonomy 23–42
- 93–96 Conclusion 93–96
- 97–110 Bibliography 97–110
- 111–114 Index 111–114
- 115–116 About the Author 115–116