- Zusatztext
<p><span>In often mundane but sometimes quite obvious ways, persons belonging to groups routinely threatened with harm on the basis of gender and sexuality suffer restrictions to choice and action, impairing autonomy.</span><span> Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy</span><span> shows that resistance to, and cultivating resiliency within, a culture of gender violence is key to fostering autonomy.</span></p><p><span>Building on decades of research philosophically interrogating autonomy and its limits, and with a martial arts background spanning over twenty-five years, Professor Burrow develops a novel approach to autonomy development under everyday threats of violence. Appealing to empirical research to ground its philosophical analysis, the theory presented in this book establishes that cultivating self-confidence through self-defense training is a significant strategy contributing to resistance and resilience under threats of violence and hence, autonomy development.</span></p>
- Kurztext
Sylvia Jane Burrow explores self-confidence as integral to autonomy development within everyday contexts threatening gender violence, arguing that self-defense training is significant to resistance and resilience.
- Autorenportrait
Sylvia Jane Burrow is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University and adjunct professor in the faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University.
<p><span>In often mundane but sometimes quite obvious ways, persons belonging to groups routinely threatened with harm on the basis of gender and sexuality suffer restrictions to choice and action, impairing autonomy.</span><span> Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy</span><span> shows that resistance to, and cultivating resiliency within, a culture of gender violence is key to fostering autonomy.</span></p><p><span>Building on decades of research philosophically interrogating autonomy and its limits, and with a martial arts background spanning over twenty-five years, Professor Burrow develops a novel approach to autonomy development under everyday threats of violence. Appealing to empirical research to ground its philosophical analysis, the theory presented in this book establishes that cultivating self-confidence through self-defense training is a significant strategy contributing to resistance and resilience under threats of violence and hence, autonomy development.</span></p>