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Gender Violence, the Law, and Society

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Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions

Published in partnership with Progressive Connexions: https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/

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Gender Violence, the Law, and Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Japan and South Africa

Edited By

M. Susanne Schotanus

Progressive Connexions, Netherlands

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2022

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ISBN: 978-1-80117-130-4 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-80117-127-4 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-80117-129-8 (Epub)

About the Editor

M. Susanne Schotanus is the Director of Publications for Progressive Connexions and in that position is currently involved in the production of a range of books for the Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions series. She's one of the co-founders of the Inter/Connexions publishing house as well as a freelance editor for both fictional and academic text. Her work is marked by a passion for interdisciplinarity and knowledge production, especially on those topics that have traditionally been considered taboo.

About the Contributors

Deepesh Nirmaldas Dayal is a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology graduate from the University of Johannesburg, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He works as a Counselling Psychologist and Career Counsellor at the Counselling and Careers Development Unit (CCDU) at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. Deepesh's work has been interdisciplinary, with him taking up roles in the education and mental health sector as a trainer, teacher and therapist. His research interests have focused on inclusive education, gender and psychology. Recently, Deepesh completed a study titled ‘Microaggressions Against South African Gay Indian Men’, which focuses on the intersectional microaggression experiences of South African Indian gay men.

Gavan Patrick Gray is a Professor at Tsuda University's College of Policy Studies in Tokyo and holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from Leicester University. His research interests include the fields of language and communication, national security and propaganda, and gender violence. He is currently engaged in a multi-year research project comparing the social and political responses to gender violence in Japan, Thailand and Ireland.

Dr Nidhi Shrivastava completed her PhD in the department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario (now Western University) in London, Ontario, Canada and works as part-time faculty in the Department of Languages and Literature at Sacred Heart University. Her research focuses on the #MeToo movement, Hindi film cinema, censorship, the figure of the abducted and raped women, Indian rape culture, and the 1947 partition. She co-edited the volume of Bridging the Gaps Between Celebrity and Media with Jackie Raphael and Basuli Deb and her academic research has also been published in South Asian Review. She has also contributed to the edited volume, #Metoo and Literary Studies: Reading, Teaching, and Writing About Sexual Culture. She is currently co-editing with her colleagues an edited volume on Reimagining #MeToo in South Asia and the Diaspora and working on her book proposal to turn her dissertation into a monograph.

Acknowledgements

In this book, we often talk about communities. And it really did take a community of brave and open-minded people to bring this book into existence. The lengthy process of creation has brought home the conviction that there really is something resembling an international, interdisciplinary academic community. And despite popular belief, this community is rather welcoming of new ways of ‘doing publishing’. Though this edited volume has some unique qualities – containing essays by only three authors, and incorporating discussions between the authors into the structure of the book itself – from its first conception, the project has seen a unique level of enthusiasm from a wide variety of people. And without this enthusiasm, it would have been impossible to realise our ambitions in the current format.

First, of course, there is the Progressive Connexions team, led by Rob Fisher. The authors met at a conference on Sexual and Gender-based Violence organised on the brink of the pandemic by the marvellous ProCon team consisting of Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Lorraine Rumson and Elif Çakmak. In this same context, special thanks should go to Kristine Seitz, the leader of this event, who, with her warm and thoughtful attitude, managed to create a safe space where deeply impressive conversations about these painful topics could be had. She also served as an advisor to this book, making suggestions related to inclusive terminology that have proven to be extremely valuable.

Second, there is our publisher: Emerald. Not only did they create the gorgeous book cover that makes this volume a work of art; our Emerald team – Katy Mathers, Lydia Cutmore, Sumitha Selvamani and Ramya Murali – were kind, generous and knowledgeable supporters throughout the entire process. They were generous with their time, but also generous in putting this book forward for selection in the Knowledge Unlatched programme, which is an amazing organisation that has ended up allowing us to publish the book Open Access. For that, Knowledge Unlatched and all the libraries that have pledged funds deserve not only our acknowledgement but also our sincerest thanks.