This book explores the link between Women’s economic empowerment and IPV reduction by analysing how economic independence and access to resources empower women to address and escape abusive situations.
This book explores the link between Women’s economic empowerment and IPV reduction by analysing how economic independence and access to resources empower women to address and escape abusive situations.
Examining the systemic barriers that hinder progress, such as cultural norms, legal constraints, and gaps in social protection systems, it offers evidence-based analysis and practical recommendations including microfinance, skill-building initiatives, and community-based programs, to create a vital resource for policymakers, social workers, and advocates committed to creating safer, more equitable communities. Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a pervasive challenge in the 21st century, profoundly affecting individuals, families, and societies across the globe. Its far-reaching consequences undermine not only the safety and well-being of victims but also broader efforts toward gender equality and social justice.
Combining insights from economics, gender, social work, sociology and development studies as well as mental health, this book offers a way forward and will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals working in these areas.
1.Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Globally: Womens Economic
Empowerment as a Comprehensive Tool for Prevention and Response. Section I
Foundational Concepts and Contributing Factors to IPV. 2.Understanding
Intimate Partner Violence: Fundamental Causes and Systemic Barriers to
Support Services. 3.Distinctive characteristics of Intimate Partner Violence
and the power dynamics that underpin abusive relationships. 4.The Public
Display and Normalisation of Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa.
5.Transformative Education and Awareness. Section II Exploring Solutions
and Empowerment Models. 6.Dimensions of Empowerment: Economic,
Social-Cultural, Legal, Psychological, and Political Perspectives. 7.The Role
of Empowerment in Addressing Intimate Partner Violence. 8.Building Social
Networks and Support systems. 9.Emotional Intelligence in Preventing the
Recurrence of Intimate Partner Violence. 10.Economic empowerment tools to
support female victims of intimate partner violence: Suggestions for social
work support. 11.Interagency Collaboration as a Catalyst for Victim
Empowerment in South Africa. 12.Engaging South Sudanese Men and Boys in
Breaking the Cycle of Intimate Partner Violence. 13.The role of Men (and
boys) in breaking the cycle of intimate partner violence in South Africa.
14.Youth, Gender, and Intimate Partner Violence: Lessons from an Australian
Community-Based Intervention. Section III - Critiques, Gaps, and Future
Directions. 15.The Role of an Ubuntu Model as a Holistic Approach to
Challenging Power Imbalances. 16.Using the victim-survivor approach to
empower victim-survivors of IPV in South Africa. 17.The Dark Side of
Microfinance: Predatory Lending, Violence Against Women, and Modern Slavery.
18.Strengthening the Homefront: Examining the Potential of Economic
Empowerment in Responding to Domestic and Family Violence in Military
Families. 19.Recovering and Rebuilding the Lives of Women with Disabilities
who are Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence. 20.Holistic Healing, Intimate
Partner Violence, and Womens Economic Empowerment. 21.Navigating the Legal
Landscape: Federal and State Policy Responses to Domestic and Intimate
Partner Violence in the United States. 22.No One Left Behind? Intimate
Partner Violence and Australia's Policy Responses and Progress Towards the
Sustainable Development Goals. 23.Towards the social inclusion and
empowerment of women from refugee and migrant backgrounds in non-metropolitan
Australian communities. 24.Empowerment as a Tool for Economic Equity.
25.Roadmap for Future Action. 26.Conclusion.
Tatenda Manomano is the discipline lead in Social Work and a senior lecturer in the Australian College of Applied Professions University College, as well as a research fellow at the University of the Free State.
Eziwe Mutsikiwa is a research, monitoring and evaluation and gender expert consultant in Zimbabwe with significant research experience in issues that involve women and intimate partner violence and children.
Nicole Dubus is a Professor of Social Work at San Jose University in the United States of America.
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