Violence in Everyday Life: Power, Gender and Sexuality

Recent scholarship by queer and feminist writers has made us increasingly aware of the importance of sexualities and masculinities in shaping social life. Gender and sexuality join with other identity markers, such as race, ethnicity, class and age, in shaping our everyday lives. But these identity markers are also unstable, shifting across time, place and context. In this invaluable new work, Aliraza Javaid explores how these identity markers intersect with violence, synthesizing the themes of gender, sexuality, and violence, and offering a coherent framework for understanding the interrelationship between these concepts.

Drawing on concepts of hegemonic masculinity, Javaid explores how violence is experienced at a local, regional and global level, and considers the ways in which hegemonic masculinities are reproduced through violence. Attention is also given to the particular ways in which these constructions of masculinity are reflected in areas such as homophobic violence, transphobic violence, and violence against intimate partners. Drawing on new empirical data as well as his own personal experiences of violence, as well as identifying new areas for further research, Javaid's work represents a unique study of the interconnectedness of violence, gender and sexuality, and of how violence is fuelled by our society's attitudes towards masculinity.