Abstract

In this co edited collection the authors bring a lens to the diversity of gender-based violence and harms presenting chapters which offer varying perspectives that expand current scholarship in an international context. The collection has 12 contributions by authors from seven different countries. While the editors hoped for a more global contribution all chapter’s present data that lends itself to global consideration. This book highlights the pervasiveness of gender-based harms in a variety of contexts, including behaviours and actions which are not readily understood as violence but are experienced as inherently harmful. The book does not intend to be a comprehensive treatment of gender-based violence, rather each chapter provides a nuanced snapshot of a topic less frequently covered in more general texts. This will allow students, academics and practitioners from multiple disciplines to expand their understanding of the prevalence and diversity of gender-based harm in one key text.