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.

Nguyen, Gonick and Bui examine how disabled girls in Vietnam use phone-made short films to represent violence and exclusion, and ask whether participatory images can shift who gets to narrate research.

Using the U.S. anti-domestic-violence movement of 1973 - 1983, Mimi E. Kim traces how collaboration with law enforcement reshaped movement autonomy and how gendered, racialized, and classed narratives legitimated punitive policy.

Mimi E. Kim traces how U.S. feminist anti-violence politics became entangled with criminalization - and how women-of-color feminist movements developed restorative and transformative alternatives.

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’s 2005 essay challenges the feminist/nonfeminist binary and asks how Native women’s diverse political frameworks make sovereignty central to debates about gender justice.

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.