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This text provides the first comprehensive account of violence against women in politics. Tracing its emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on research in multiple disciplines to theorize that this phenomenon is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to undermine women as political actors. Adopting a global comparative approach, Krook illustrates what this violence looks like in practice and catalogues emerging solutions around the world.

Intro -- INTERNATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION* -- DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- SCOPE AND CONTEXT -- SOCIAL AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES -- PREVALENCE AND CIRCUMSTANCES -- TYPES OF VIOLENCE -- HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES -- ADMINISTRATION EFFORTS -- INTERAGENCY ACTIVITIES -- KEY ISSUES AND RELATED U.S. ACTIVITIES -- GLOBAL HEALTH -- Related U.S. Activities -- HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND REFUGEES -- Related U.S. Activities -- FOREIGN MILITARY TRAINING -- Related U.S. Activities -- TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND GIRLS -- Related U.S. Activities -- LEGAL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS -- Related U.S. Activities -- SELECTED UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS -- U.N. CONFERENCES, AGREEMENTS, AND RESOLUTIONS -- UNITED NATIONS AND U.N. SYSTEM ACTIVITIES -- OTHER INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS -- POLICY ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- SCOPE, EFFECTIVENESS, AND FUNDING OF CURRENT U.S. PROGRAMS -- INTEGRATION INTO FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND ADDITIONAL FUNDING -- COORDINATION AMONG U.S. AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS -- COLLABORATION WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS -- POSSIBLE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES -- Infrastructure and Priorities -- Most Effective Approaches? -- Program Evaluation -- Lack of Comparable Data -- CURRENT AND EMERGING ISSUES -- THE ROLE OF MEN AND BOYS -- Links to HIV/AIDS -- Discrimination and Violence -- Possible Economic Impacts -- APPENDIX A. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES -- APPENDIX B. SELECTED U.S. AGENCIES AND OFFICES/BUREAUS THAT ADDRESS GLOBAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- APPENDIX C. SELECTED U.N. SYSTEM EFFORTS -- APPENDIX D. SELECTED LEGISLATION IN THE 110TH CONGRESS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- Part 1 Sexual Assault -- Surviving Sexual Violence: A Philosophical Perspective; Susan J. Brison -- War Rape; Michael Boylan -- Date Rape: The Intractability of Hermeneutical Injustice; Debra L. Jackson -- Intellectual Disability, Sexual Assault, and Empowerment; Virginia L. Warren -- Resisting Sexual Violence: What Empathy Offers; Sarah Clark Miller -- Part 2 Harassment and Medicalized Violence -- From Mental Illness to Moral Injury: Psychological and Philosophical Approaches to the Harms of Sexual Violence; Zenon Culverhouse -- Policing Women to Protect Fetuses: Coercive Interventions During Pregnancy; Debra A. DeBruin and Mary Faith Marshall -- Pronatalism is Violence Against Women: The Role of Genetics; Laura M. Purdy -- "Her Body Her Own Worst Enemy": The Medicalization of Violence Against Women; Abby L. Wilkerson -- Part 3 Domestic Violence -- The Tyranny of Bodily Strength: Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill on Domestic Violence; Rita Manning -- A Feminist Analysis of the Abuse and Neglect of Elderly Women; Rosemarie Tong and Howard Lintz -- Myth, Power, and Gun-Related Intimate Partner Violence Against Women; Peter Tagore Tan -- There is no Honour in Honour Killing; Vibhuti Patel -- Part 4 Media Violence, Pornography, and Prostitution -- Is Seeing Believing? Rapist Culture on the Screen; Jane Caputi -- Crossing the Line: Online Violence; Wanda Teays -- Beyond Labels: Pornography, Violence, and Free Speech; Edith L. Pacillo -- The Myth of the Happy Hooker: Kantian Moral Reflections on a Phenomenology of Prostitution; Clelia Smyth and Yolanda Estes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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