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WGST 422: Transforming Harm: Global Voices on Gender-Based Violence Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: What Is Violence?

Required Readings
Herr, R. S. (2019). Women's rights as human rights and cultural imperialism. Feminist Formations, 31(3), 118–142.
Creek, S. J., & Dunn, J. L. (2011). Rethinking gender and violence: Agency, heterogeneity, and intersectionality. Sociological Compass, 5(5), 311–322
Rollero, C., Bergagna, E., & Tartaglia, S. (2021). What is violence? The role of sexism and social dominance orientation in recognizing violence against women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(21–22), 1–18.
Loken, M., & Hagen, J. J. (2022). Queering gender-based violence scholarship: An integrated research agenda. International Studies Review, 24(4), Article viac050
Wirtz, A. L., Poteat, T. C., Malik, M., & Glass, N. (2020). Gender-based violence against transgender people in the United States: A call for research and programming. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 21(2), 227–241.
Shabalala, S. B., Boonzaier, F., & Chirape, S. (2023). Challenging ciscentric feminist margins: A South African study on gender-based violence in the lives of Black trans women. Psychology in Society, 65, 50–80.
Required Viewing
UN Women Asia and the Pacific. (2014, October). CEDAW quick & concise: Explaining the principle of non-discrimination [Video]. UN Women Asia and the Pacific.
Fox, K. (2022, October 13). Origins of objectification | Kitty Fox | TEDxSalisbury [Video]. YouTube.
PBS NewsHour. (2019, May 24). Why transgender violence is an underreported crisis [Video]. YouTube.

Unit 2: Intimate Partner Violence

Required Readings
De Coster, S., & Heimer, K. (2021). Unifying theory and research on intimate partner violence: A feminist perspective. Feminist Criminology, 16(3), 286–303.
Behrendt, M. C. (2022). Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities. Sociology Compass, 16(11), e13019.
Chamsanit, V., Khuankaew, O., Rungreangkulkij, S., Norsworthy, K., & Abrams, E. M. (2021). A feminist liberation framework for responding to intimate partner violence in Thailand. Women & Therapy, 44(1–2), 63–82.
Lavers, I. (2024). Speaking into the silence: Lesbian intimate partner violence in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House and a queer women's archive. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 39(1), 131–154.
Required Viewing
Angela Davis. (2003, November 7). Angela Davis on the movement to end domestic violence [Video]. YouTube.
UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction. (2025, January 14). Gender-based, Indigenous and colonial violence 24/25: The case of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada [Video]. YouTube.
Capital News Service. (2015, December 4). Undocumented violence: One undocumented immigrant’s story of domestic abuse [Video]. YouTube
Fortify Rights. (2025, June 3). The Forecast Ep #8 – Thailand’s lack of remedies to survivors of domestic violence [Video]. YouTube.
Recommended Viewing
Oldenburg, V. T. (2022, February 4). Twisting a safenet into a noose: Short history of dowry [Video]. YouTube.

Unit 3: Sexual Violence

Required Readings
Fritsch, K., Heynen, R., Ross, A. N., & van der Meulen, E. (2016). Disability and sex work: Developing affinities through decriminalization. Disability & Society, 31(1), 84–99.
Kempadoo, K. (2016). Revitalizing imperialism: Contemporary campaigns against sex trafficking and modern slavery. Cadernos Pagu, 47, e16478.
Wieskamp, V. N., & Smith, C. (2020). What to do when you're raped: Indigenous women critiquing and coping through a rhetoric of survivance. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 106(1), 1–23.
Zeng, J. (2020). #MeToo as connective action: A study of the anti-sexual violence and anti-sexual harassment campaign on Chinese social media in 2018. Journalism Practice, 14(2), 171–190.
Werunga, J., Reimer-Kirkham, S., & Ewashen, C. (2016). A decolonizing methodology for health research on female genital cutting. Advances in Nursing Science, 39(2), 150–164.
Haddadi, M., Hedayati, F., & Hantoushzadeh, S. (2025). Parallel paths: Abortion access restrictions in the USA and Iran. Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 10(1), Article 44.
Required Viewing
Yusuf, H. [The Guardian]. (2015, May 28). My hijab is nothing to do with oppression. It’s a feminist statement [Video]. YouTube
TMU Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. (2021, March 11). TMU Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Loree Erickson [Video]. YouTube.
Burke, T. [TED]. (2019, January 4). Me Too is a movement, not a moment [Video]. YouTube.
Adichie, C. N. (2009, October). The danger of a single story [Video]. TED Conferences. YouTube.
VICE News. (2024, September 3). How the end of Roe v. Wade is impacting Americans [Video]. YouTube.

Unit 4: Transforming Harm

Required Readings
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, & Critical Resistance. (2001). Statement on gender violence and the prison industrial complex. incite-national.org.
Ethical Unicorn. (2021, March 26). What is abolition feminism, what is carceral feminism & what could a world without prisons look like? transformharm.org.
Mingus, M. (2019, January 11). Transformative justice: A brief description. Leaving Evidence.
Sharpless, L., Kershaw, T., Knight, D., Campbell, J. K., Phillips, K., Katague, M., & Willie, T. C. (2024). Moving towards transformative justice for Black women survivors of intimate partner violence: An intersectional qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 24, Article 2730.
Maynard, R. (2020). Police abolition/Black revolt. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 41, 70–78
Bassichis, M., Lee, A., & Spade, D. (2011). Building an abolitionist trans and queer movement with everything we've got. In E. A. Stanley & N. Smith (Eds.), Captive genders: Trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex (2nd ed., pp. 15–40). AK Press.
Required Viewing
Barnard Center for Research on Women. (2020, March 11). What is transformative justice? [Video]. YouTube.
Democracy Now! (2020, June 12). Angela Davis: Abolishing police is not just about dismantling, it is also about building up [Video]. YouTube.