This important and timely reference work examines violence against women and gender-based discrimination around the world, providing a global perspective on why this kind of oppression is still occurring in the 21st century.

• Enables a fuller comprehension of how contemporary ideas about gender and power are being debated, reinforced, and challenged

• Offers a repository of key concepts used by local scholars and country specialists who study gender-based violence

• Sheds light on gender-based violence and women's advocacy against discrimination that is occurring around the world

• Lists major events that have occurred in relation to women and violence around the world through history in a chronology

• Offers insightful information related to the chapters in sidebars throughout the text