Negotiating Boundaries Gender, Violence and Transformation in Brazil

The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro provide an ideal case study since they are renowned for high levels of police and gang violence resulting in high death rates among young black men, causing both outrage and fear. This book foregrounds women's experie

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Negotiating Boundaries Gender, Violence and Transformation in Brazil Polly Wilding

Series editors: Johanna Kantola, University of Helsinki, Finland and Judith Squires, University of Bristol, UK This timely new series publishes leading monographs and edited collections from scholars working in the disciplinary areas of politics, international relations and public policy with specific reference to questions of gender. The series showcases cutting-edge research in Gender and Politics, publishing topical and innovative approaches to gender politics. It will include exciting work from new authors and well-known academics and will also publish high-impact writings by practitioners working in issues relating to gender and politics. The series covers politics, international relations and public policy, including gendered engagement with mainstream political science issues, such as political systems and policymaking, representation and participation, citizenship and identity, equality, and women’s movements; gender and international relations, including feminist approaches to international institutions, political economy and global politics; and interdisciplinary and emergent areas of study, such as masculinities studies, gender and multiculturalism, and intersectionality. Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the series editors: Johanna Kantola, ([email protected]) and Judith Squires ([email protected])

Series Advisory Board: Louise Chappell, University of Sydney, Australia Joni Lovenduksi, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Amy Mazur, Washington State University, USA Jacqui True, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mieke Verloo, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Laurel Weldon, Purdue University, USA

Titles include: Gabriele Abels and Joyce Marie Mushaben (editors) GENDERING THE EUROPEAN UNION New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits Sarah Childs, Paul Webb SEX, GENDER AND THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels Jonathan Dean RETHINKING CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST POLITICS Andrea Krizsan, Hege Skjeie and Judith Squires (editors) INSTITUTIONALIZING INTERSECTIONALITY The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes

10.1057/9781137295927 - Negotiating Boundaries, Polly Wilding

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Gender and Politics Series

Emanuela Lombardo and Maxime Forest (editors) THE EUROPEANIZATION OF GENDER EQUALITY POLICIES A Discursive-Sociological Approach Birte Siim and Monika Mokre (editors) NEGOTIATING GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN AN EMERGENT EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPHERE Polly Wilding NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES Gender, Violence and Transformation in Brazil

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