This book both a comprehensive and authoritative state of the art overview of the latest research in the field of gender and violence. Each chapter develops and summarises their key issue or debate including rape, stalking, online harassment, domestic abuse, FGM, trafficking and prostitution in relation to gender and violence.

Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction to Gender and Violence; Part I: Theoretical Discussions of Gender and Violence; Chapter 1. Coercive Control as a Framework for Responding to Male Partner Abuse in the UK: Opportunities and Challenges (Evan Stark); Chapter 2. What's in a name? The Scottish Government, Feminism and the Gendered Framing of Domestic Abuse (Nancy Lombard and Nel Whiting); Chapter 3. On the Limits of Typologies: Understanding Young Men's Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships (David Gadd and Mary-Louise Corr); Chapter 4. Male Victims: Control, Coercion, and Fear? (Emma Williamson, Karen Morgan and Marianne Hester); Chapter 5. Domestic Violence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender Relationships (Becky Barnes and Catherine Donovan); Part II: Specific Forms, Representations of, and Responses to, Gendered Violence; Chapter 6. The Implications of Pornification: Pornography, the Mainstream and False Equivalences (Karen Boyle); Chapter 7. Statutory Response to Sexual Violence: Where Doubt is Always Considered Reasonable (Deborah White and Lesley McMillan); Chapter 8. Stalking as a Gender-Based Violence (Katy Proctor); Chapter 9. Cyber-Trolling as Symbolic Violence: Deconstructing Gendered Abuse Online (Karen Lumsden and Heather M. Morgan); Chapter 10. The Relationship between Disability and Domestic Abuse (Jenna P. Breckenridge); Chapter 11. Child Contact as a Weapon of Control (Kirsteen Mackay); Chapter 12. Femicide (Karen Ingala-Smith); Chapter 13. 'Lad Culture' and Sexual Violence Against Students (Alison Phipps); Chapter 14. Violence Against Older Women (Hannah Bows); Chapter 15. Female Genital Mutilation: a Form of Gender-Based Violence (Judy Wasige and Ima Jackson); Chapter 16. Gender and Trafficking of Children and Young People into, within and out of England (Patricia Hynes); Chapter 17. Prostitution and Violence (Natasha Mulvihill); Part III: Conducting Research on Gendered Violence; Chapter 18. Lost in Translation? Comparative and International Work on Gender-Related Violence (gigi guizzo, Pam Alldred and Mireia Foradada-Villar); Chapter 19. Researching Child Sexual Exploitation: Methodological Challenges of Working with Police Data; (Maureen Taylor); Chapter 20. Researching Gender-Based Violence with Minoritised Communities in the UK; (Khatidja Chantler); Chapter 21. Young Women's Responses to Safety Advice in Bars and Clubs: Implications for Future Sexual Violence Prevention Campaigns (Oona Brooks); Chapter 22. 'Thinking and Doing': Children's and Young People's Understandings and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse (IPVA) (Christine Barter and Nancy Lombard); Chapter 23. Making our Feelings Matter: Using Creative Methods to Re-assemble the Rules on Healthy Relationships Education in Wales (Libby, Georgia, Chloe, Courtney, Olivia and Rhiannon with Emma Renold); Index