Gender-Based Violence Research in Canadian Political Science: A Call to Action
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Published:2022-12
Issue:4
Volume:55
Page:769-783
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ISSN:0008-4239
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Container-title:Canadian Journal of Political Science
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Can J Pol Sci
Abstract
AbstractGender-based violence is a prevalent and persistent societal problem in Canada that permeates all spaces, including politics. Yet sexual harassment, sexual assault and/or gender-based violence research is rarely found in mainstream political science in Canada or elsewhere. This article argues that this absence is highly problematic for a discipline that purports to centre itself on understanding power—who has it and who doesn't, and how to access it. It further argues for a normative intersectional and interdisciplinary approach, highlighting promising avenues of research in feminist institutionalism and Indigenous feminism to help achieve elusive solutions to gender-based violence in the future.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Sociology and Political Science