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The volume examines the causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces. Scholars from different disciplines and activists from the women’s movement explore the nature of gender-based violence in public spaces locating it within the politics and dynamics of public space. Tracing the common strands between different forms of violence like sexual harassment and assault, acid throwing, honour killing, rape and homicide, the essays examine the ...
This book is an attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces. It provides a framework that locates gender based violence within the politics and dynamics of public space, and helps us to understand the commonality between these diverse forms of violence ranging from sexual harassment sexual assault moral policing honour killing acid throwing witch hunting, parading naked tonsuring rape and homicide. The ...