Ending GenderBased Violence by Hannah E. Britton PAPERBACK 9780252084966

Ending Gender-Based ViolenceJustice and Community in South Africa\nAuthor(s): Hannah E. Britton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252084966, 978-0252084966\nSynopsis\nSouth African women's still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women's rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner [url] E. Britton examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. Venturing into South African communities, Britton invites service providers, religious and traditional leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words. Britton finds the recent turn toward carceral solutions-with a focus on arrests and prosecutions-fails to address the complex.