Violence against Women in Politics

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Violence against Women in Politics is written by Mona Lena Krook and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190088494 (ISBN 10) and 9780190088491 (ISBN 13).

This book provides the first comprehensive account of violence against women in politics. Tracing its emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on research in multiple disciplines to theorize that this phenomenon is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to undermine women as political actors. Adopting a global comparative approach, Krook illustrates what this violence looks like in practice and catalogues emerging solutions around the world.