EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The #MeToo movement sparked many debates and increased the demand for more problematised perspectives on the issue of sexual harassment.This book opens up new understandings of sexual harassment by bringing researchers, writers and policy makers in the Nordic region into dialogue within an ambitious volume. It asks what role juridical frameworks can and should play in prevention and raises questions about how the...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How should research and new ways of thinking about violence improve its measurement? Could improved measurement change policy?The book is a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved. It shows how to make femicide, rape, domestic violence, and FGM visible in official statistics. It offers practical guidance on definitions...

In an era marked by profound disparities, this book explores the significant waysthe pandemic has deepened gender inequalities in the labor, education, and healthsectors. Through a rigorous analysis within the RESISTIRÉ EU funded project framework,it highlights innovative scientific and social methodologies that have emergedto challenge these inequalities. Structured into nine chapters, the work synthesizesinsights gained from extensive evaluations of pub...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The need to stop rape is pressing and, since it is the outcome of a wide range of practices and institutions in society, so too must the policies be to stop it This important book offers a comprehensive guide to the international policies developed to stop rape , together with case study examples on how they work. The book engages with the law and criminal justice system, health services, specialised services for victim-survivors, educational a...

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men’s violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by ‘type’ and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it aims to flesh out – not delimit – understandings of violence.Bringing together cross-disciplinary, indeed transdisciplinary, perspectiv...