Women and Violence ― The Agency of Victims and Perpetrators

This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume addresses such debates as the extent of women's agency in frameworks of the victim, survivor, or perpetrator; the power of gendered norms, constructs and stereotypes about female violence; and practical concerns about how feminists can escape polarisations in understandings of agency in order to deal with violence done to and by women. The volume contributes to the theoretical debate and is philosophical in its focus, whilst also seeking to draw on the insights of other disciplines. It also engages with practical questions, and offers some social and political responses to the issues examined.

Heather Widdows is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She is the author of Global Ethics: An Introduction (2011) andThe Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual (2013), and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics (with Darrel Moellendorf, 2015), Global Social Justice (with Nicola Smith, 2011) and Women's Reproductive Rights (with Itziar Alkorta Idiakez & Aitziber Emaldi Cirion, 2006). Heather also serves on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

Herjeet Marway is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her research interests include global ethics, relational autonomy, feminist theory, virtue ethics, and race. She has written on female suicide bombers, commodification, commercial surrogacy, and feminist bioethics.