Anti-Sexual ViolencePapers

A narrative study of Ni Una Menos as more than a protest against femicide: a plural political practice seeking to transform precarious life, relationships, knowledge, and solidarity.

This research critically examines how feminism and social work have historically participated in colonial projects, perpetuating structural violence rooted in white supremacy. The author proposes an Indigenous decolonial feminist framework, emphasizing that social work should reorient its justice goals toward collective liberation and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.

A historical study of how gender-based violence reform became entangled with racialized law-and-order politics and punitive state expansion.

A women-of-color feminist account of anti-violence responses that pursue accountability, repair, and safety without relying on incarceration.

A study of feminist norm-making from resistance under dictatorship to the Belém do Pará Convention, focused on the persistent gap between regional commitments and state practice.

Sjoberg surveys how feminism reshapes security studies by shifting attention from states and war alone to bodies, everyday violence, gender order, wartime sexual violence, and global power.

A key article on how anti-trafficking politics links sexuality, markets, morality, and punitive state power.

Andrea Smith connects Native feminism with sovereignty, anti-violence organizing, anti-colonial struggle, and social transformation, challenging separations between feminism and Indigenous nationhood.

Cockburn places domestic, street, nationalist, military, and postwar gendered violence on a single continuum, challenging the false separation of war/peace and public/private harm.

This groundbreaking 1991 article systematically articulates intersectionality theory, analyzing how race, gender, and other identity dimensions interact to shape the unique experiences of violence faced by women of color. Crenshaw critiques how anti-discrimination law and feminist movements fail to adequately address multiply-marginalized groups, calling for more inclusive frameworks of social justice.