Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence, Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking, Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence, Our Analysis
From the aborting of female fetuses to intimate homicide, girls and women may encounter numerous oppressions during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and as elders. Some of these are confined to one stage in the lifecycle, some continue into subsequent...
Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis, Pacific Islanders, Patriarchy & Power
The notions and strategies of colonial domination are used by patriarchy to continue male dominance over women. We need to counter claims that colonization has led to violence against women, by pointing out that there is in fact a tight connection between colonization...
Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Violence
These training slides from a workshop by API-GBV analyzes elder abuse in the context of abuse over the lifecourse (see the Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence). It enumerates several types of abuses API elders may face, including forced labor and emotional neglect, and...