Gender, Power, and Violence

Sociologists study many forms of violence including riots, wars, serial killers, violence in the home, violence between gangs, gun violence, hate-crime violence, violence within minority communities, capital punishment, and even violence against ourselves. Beginning in the early twenty-first century and continuing to the present, much media (though less academic) attention has been paid to violence against women and children in several institutions. Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past fifty years to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal levels.Using intersectional theory as a theoretic lens, this text examines the ways in which power and privilege are exacerbated in social institutions that are largely sex-segregated as well as the ways in which this arrangement contributes to environments that are predisposed to violence against women and children. What makes this book unique is that it focuses almost exclusively on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), a growing subfield that is rich with literature but light on synthetic texts.This book focuses primarily on violence in the following five institutions:(1)Military (2)Fraternities(3) Sports World(4) The church (specifically the Catholic Church worldwide)(5) Prisons