Jyoti Atwal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Iris Fleßenkämper, University of Münster (WWU)

Porposals by 14.03.2016

Since a group of men raped and tortured to death a young Indian woman in New Delhi in December 2012, the Indian and the global public has been discussing the relationship of gender and violence with a new intensity. Such instances highlight the need for studies that go beyond national boundaries to provide cross-cultural and comparative research on gender-related violence. The overall aim of the edited volume is thus to examine gender-based violence and discrimination with regard to specific cultural and regional conditions, and more generally to explore broader historical and transcultural developments. The editorscurrently have a number of articles for the proposed volume that have as a cultural and regional focus (pre-modern or modern) India, and they are now seeking to extend the breadth of our volume through contributions that address the relationship between gender and violence in European and other Western regions.

In particular, the editors are interested in essays that contribute to forming a comparative backdrop to the broader question of in which situations and constellations can gender-related violence be interpreted as … read more and source (Web).