TY - JOUR
T1 - Interrogating Violence against Women and State Violence Policy
T2 - Gendered Intersectionalities and the Quality of Policy in The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK
AU - Hearn, Jeffery
AU - Strid, Sofia
AU - Husu, Liisa
AU - Verloo, Mieke
PY - 2016/6/14
Y1 - 2016/6/14
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Comparative
KW - Europe
KW - Intersectionality
KW - Policy
KW - Violence against women
UR - https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/current-sociology/journal200820#description
U2 - 10.1177/0011392116639220
DO - 10.1177/0011392116639220
M3 - Article
VL - 64
SP - 551
EP - 567
JO - Current Sociology
JF - Current Sociology
SN - 0011-3921
IS - 4
ER -