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The Social Politics of Gender-Based Violence: A Critical Canadian Health Perspective, 2024

A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2024) | Viewed by 3273

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Valerie Zawilski

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Sociology Faculty, King's University College, London, ON N6A 2M3, Canada
Interests: social inequality; social movements; social justice in post-conflict societies; global health and human trafficking
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Dr. Ana Ning

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Sociology and Criminology Department, King’s University College, Western University of Ontario, 266 Epworth Avenue, London, ON N6A 2M3, Canada
Interests: addiction and mental health; integration of biomedical and traditional medicines; questions 24 of evidence in traditional Chinese medicine; health policy, institutions, and professions; intersectional 25 social justice
Dr. Jordan Fairbairn

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Sociology and Criminology Department, King’s University College, Western University of Ontario, London, ON N6A 2M3, Canada
Interests: gender; feminist criminology, violence, and media; intimate femicide; media in gender-based violence prevention

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will examine the social and political origins of gender-based violence and the impact that this violence has had on the long term mental, physical and social health of individuals and groups of people living and working in Canada. The author(s) of each chapter will use intersectional feminist or allied frameworks, epistemologies, and pedagogies including critical race, decolonization or other perspectives, to examine how gender-based violence produces overlapping socio-historical, marginal and privileged social identities, and general or specific health issues.  General themes of this edited volume include the following:

Newcomers: sexual violence, trauma, identity issues, and newcomer health.

First Nations: colonization, systemic/institutional racism, state violence, Indigenous mothering, urban/rural/remote/Northern Indigenous health and environments.

IPV and Sexual Harm: sexual health and safety, long-term physical and mental health outcomes of Intimate Partner Violence.

Families: ageism and health, health and media representations, mothering, trans/non-binary experiences, long-term physical and mental health outcomes.

Social Policy: elder abuse, substance use issues, homelessness and public health implications.

Education: sexual- and gender-based education, prevention and response to sexual violence though workshops and mainstream and social media.

Dr. Valerie Zawilski
Dr. Ana Ning
Dr. Jordan Fairbairn
Guest Editors

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  • gender-based violence
  • media representations
  • health
  • education
  • social and policy implications
  • Canada

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Gender-Based Violence and 2SLGBTQI+ Groups
by Cara A. Davidson, Tara Mantler and Kimberley T. Jackson
Societies 2024, 14(11), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14110242 - 20 Nov 2024
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Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive public health issue that affects all Canadians, including Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, Métis); however, it is well-understood that GBV disproportionately affects certain social groups. An estimated one million Canadians aged 15 and older identify with a [...] Read more.
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive public health issue that affects all Canadians, including Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, Métis); however, it is well-understood that GBV disproportionately affects certain social groups. An estimated one million Canadians aged 15 and older identify with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual, and approximately 1 in 300 people identify as transgender or non-binary. In Canada, violence rooted in biphobia, homophobia, transphobia, and queerphobia results in disproportionately high levels of GBV experienced by Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and other individuals who identify outside of cisgender, heterosexual norms (2SLGBTQI+ people). The health impacts of GBV experienced by people who identify outside of gender and sexuality norms are profound, spanning mental and physical dimensions across the life course. This article employs an anti-oppression queer framework to provide a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and understandings of GBV in Canada concerning 2SLGBTQI+ people, emphasizing (1) the disproportionate risk of GBV faced by 2SLGBTQI+ communities within the context of Canadian social politics; (2) key links between the experiences of GBV among 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada and associated health disparities; (3) current orientations to GBV policy, practice, and research, with an emphasis on contemporary, inclusive paradigms that shape equity-oriented health and social services; and (4) future directions aimed at eradicating GBV and addressing health inequities among 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada. While much work remains to be done, the expansion of 2SLGBTQI+ inclusion in GBV prevention within the past five years points to a promising future. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Social Politics of Gender-Based Violence: A Critical Canadian Health Perspective, 2024)
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Canadian Strategy Against Gender-Based Violence and Gaps
by Lanyan Chen, Jennifer McCarthy and Miao Chen
Societies 2024, 14(11), 237; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14110237 - 13 Nov 2024
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Promoting the Essential Services Package (ESP) for Women and Girls Subject to Violence has led to an emphasis on legislative commitments to a survivor-centred strategy. Such legislation includes provisions for fiscal planning, standards of services, and official programs to support networks of community-based [...] Read more.
Promoting the Essential Services Package (ESP) for Women and Girls Subject to Violence has led to an emphasis on legislative commitments to a survivor-centred strategy. Such legislation includes provisions for fiscal planning, standards of services, and official programs to support networks of community-based interventions to build capacity, share information, and co-generate knowledge across regions. This study identifies gaps in the Canadian strategy against gender-based violence in the operation of mechanisms for coordinating multi-sectoral trauma-informed “wrap-around” services that prioritize survivors in their distinct and diverse contexts and communities. It also recommends ways to transform the Canadian strategy in a global context. Full article
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Syndemic Connections: Overdose Death Crisis, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
by Ana M. Ning
Societies 2024, 14(9), 185; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14090185 - 16 Sep 2024
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This article will use syndemic theory to identify and analyze overlapping health and social conditions, focusing specifically on how gender-based violence is systemically interconnected with contemporary public health issues. The overdose death crisis that continues to afflict Canadian populations is not an isolated [...] Read more.
This article will use syndemic theory to identify and analyze overlapping health and social conditions, focusing specifically on how gender-based violence is systemically interconnected with contemporary public health issues. The overdose death crisis that continues to afflict Canadian populations is not an isolated health issue. Across Canada, it is intertwined with mental health, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and structural violence—the chronic and systemic disadvantages affecting those living in poverty and oppressive circumstances. Opioid use is an often-avoidant coping strategy for many experiencing the effects of trauma, relentless fear, pain, ill health and social exclusion. In particular, Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s experiences with opioid addiction are entangled with encounters with gender based-violence, poverty and chronic ailments within structurally imposed processes and stressors shaped by a history of colonialism, ruptured lifeways and Western ways of knowing and doing, leading to disproportionate harms and occurrences of illness. While biomedical models of comorbidity and mortality approach substance misuse, gender-based violence and major infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 as distinct yet compounding realities, this article argues that these conditions are synergistically interrelated via the critical/reflexive lens of syndemic frameworks. Through secondary research using academic, media and policy sources from the past decade in Canada, complemented by prior ethnographic research, the synergistic connections among opioid addiction, gender-based violence and the effects of the COVID pandemic on diverse women will be shown to be driven by socio-structural determinants of health including poverty, intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism and Western optics. Together, they embody a contemporary Canadian syndemic necessitating coordinated responses. Full article
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Reclaiming Being: Applying a Decolonial Lens to Gendered Violence, Indigenous Motherhood, and Community Wellbeing
by Leslie Dawson
Societies 2024, 14(11), 224; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14110224 - 31 Oct 2024
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Indigenous women and children in Canada are significantly more likely to experience some form of family violence than their non-Indigenous counterparts. However, biomedical and academic discussions around the violence that Indigenous women and their families and communities face reflect a colonial narrative emphasizing [...] Read more.
Indigenous women and children in Canada are significantly more likely to experience some form of family violence than their non-Indigenous counterparts. However, biomedical and academic discussions around the violence that Indigenous women and their families and communities face reflect a colonial narrative emphasizing Euro-Canadian perspectives and values; a colonial narrative that disconnects the role of past and ongoing forms of colonial violence and naturalizes family violence within Indigenous communities, informing a view of Indigeneity as risk. Through a decolonial lens, the underlying causes of family violence in Indigenous communities can be connected to the gendered violence of patriarchal colonialism targeting Indigenous women. It is revealed how Indigenous women’s bodies became a site of the coloniality of violence as colonization disenfranchised and displaced Indigenous women from their lands, communities, and central roles. Gendered colonial violence attacked Indigenous women’s scared status in their societies and disrupted Indigenous relational modes of being. This informed a coloniality of being for Indigenous peoples; a coloniality of being integral to intergenerational trauma and family violence. Through the lens of Indigenous laws as a decolonial approach to family violence, the centrality of Indigenous women’s roles and responsibilities as mothers is linked to community wellbeing and intertwined with leadership and governance. By grounding the rights of Indigenous women within relationships, Indigenous women can reclaim their sacred places within respectful, reciprocal, and interconnected ways of being. Full article
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Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Mothering: A Critical Canadian Health Perspective
by Tara Mantler and Kimberley Teresa Jackson
Societies 2024, 14(10), 205; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14100205 - 16 Oct 2024
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Violence against women is a predominant, human rights violation, globally. Understood as any act of gender-based violence resulting in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, approximately 35% of women experience violence across the lifespan. While violence can be experienced at [...] Read more.
Violence against women is a predominant, human rights violation, globally. Understood as any act of gender-based violence resulting in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, approximately 35% of women experience violence across the lifespan. While violence can be experienced at any age, women of reproductive age suffer the greatest prevalence, underscoring that for many women, experiencing violence or the health and social sequelae, which may follow violence, co-occurs with mothering. Mothering in the context of gender-based violence in Canada is complex and multifaceted. In this article, the interplay among gender-based violence and the childbearing stages of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are explored using an intersectional lens, including consideration of social disparities and equity-deserving groups. Approaches to address gender-based violence among childbearing women, such as an ecological approach and trauma- and violence-informed care, are discussed as implications for further research and practice. Full article
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