The Policies of Violence: Gender, Violence and the Public’s Well Being (GBV) - Q&A

The Policies of Violence: Gender, Violence and the Public’s Well Being (GBV) 

CHAIR: BLOOM, Allison (Rutgers U) 

CHASCO, Emily E., STEWART, Kenda R., and EDMONDS, Stephanie W. (VA), O’SHEA, Amy M. (VA/U Iowa), MENGELING, Michelle A. (VA), SADLER, Anne G. (VA/U Iowa), BOOTH, Brenda M. (VA/U Arkansas), 

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ROTHSTEIN, Frances A. (Montclair State U) Gender Quotas in Rural Mexico 

DOWRICK, Anna (Queen Mary U-London) What Is the Value in Addressing Gender Based Violence?: Negotiating Multiple Interests in Improving the Health Care Response to DVA 

NATHAN, Martha (Baystate Hlth System) and FRATKIN, Elliot (Smith Coll) The Lives of Street Women and Children in Hawassa Ethiopia 

KELLY, Patty (Haverford Coll) “I Never Thought I’d Be Here”: Institutional Sexism and Gender Violence in the U.S. Family Court System.

 

ABSTRACT:

BLOOM, Allison (Rutgers U) The Policies of Violence: Gender, Violence and the Public’s Well Being. The link between state-sanctioned and everyday violence has been an important focus of anthropological analysis. However, we must also consider how certain ideologies and material realities create violence through policies and structures in specifically gendered ways. As we interrogate how policies can lead to gendered violence, we must broaden this discussion to interrogate the processes and ideologies behind this policy making. In this panel, we consider how policies and policy making can lead to or mitigate forms of gender-based violence and the resulting impacts on everyday lives. 

 

Session took place at the Society for Applied Anthropology • 78th Annual Meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 3-7, 2018