Journal Autrepart (Web), Editors: Arlette Gautier and Zahia Ouadah-Bedidi

Proposals due 31.05.2017

For a long time, public interest and social science research did not consider violence against women as important. In the 1970s, the second wave of feminism associated it with the subordinate position of women rather than the cruelty of some men. In the 1990s, local, national and transnational feminist movements and a growing number of researchers made gender violence a recognized phenomenon substantiated by articles 113 to 115 of the Peking conference on women’s rights which adopted a broad definition of physical, sexual and psychological violence against women.

• Blows, sexual abuse of girls, violence linked to dowries, marital rape, genital mutilation and other traditional practices in a family context that harm women;
• Rape, sexual abuse, harassment and intimidation in the workplace, public space and in educational institutions; human trafficking and forced prostitution;
• These practices enforced or accepted by the State;
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