Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls: Transnational reflections from Brazilians in London and Maré, Rio de Janeiro

TY - CHAP

T1 - Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls

T2 - Transnational reflections from Brazilians in London and Maré, Rio de Janeiro

AU - McIlwaine, Cathy

AU - Evans, Yara

AU - Krenzinger, Miriam

AU - Sousa Silva, Eliana

PY - 2020/8/26

Y1 - 2020/8/26

N2 - This chapter examines the ways in which violence against women and girls (VAWG) affects women’s health and well-being in cities. In a context whereby one in three women globally experience such violence, with arguably higher incidence in cities, it explores these processes in relation to wider debates on the gender-blindness of right to the city discourse and the importance of considering gender justice in cities from a relational perspective. The chapter draws empirically on the transnational nature of urban VAWG among Brazilian migrant women in London and those residing in the marginalised slums of one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, Complexo da Maré. It shows how VAWG is diverse across multiple spaces of the city and how it fundamentally undermines women’s well-being and health outcomes. Yet, it also illustrates that although the roots of VAWG lie in unequal gendered power relations, the challenges of living in cities can exacerbate and ameliorate such violence.

AB - This chapter examines the ways in which violence against women and girls (VAWG) affects women’s health and well-being in cities. In a context whereby one in three women globally experience such violence, with arguably higher incidence in cities, it explores these processes in relation to wider debates on the gender-blindness of right to the city discourse and the importance of considering gender justice in cities from a relational perspective. The chapter draws empirically on the transnational nature of urban VAWG among Brazilian migrant women in London and those residing in the marginalised slums of one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, Complexo da Maré. It shows how VAWG is diverse across multiple spaces of the city and how it fundamentally undermines women’s well-being and health outcomes. Yet, it also illustrates that although the roots of VAWG lie in unequal gendered power relations, the challenges of living in cities can exacerbate and ameliorate such violence.

KW - Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)

KW - gender

KW - migration

KW - Brazil

KW - London

U2 - 10.7765/9781526150943.00008

DO - 10.7765/9781526150943.00008

M3 - Chapter

SP - 55

EP - 78

BT - Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city

PB - Manchester University Press, Manchester

CY - Manchester

ER -