About the Book: The Struggle for Freedom from Fear
How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In
this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries tends to
change as countries develop and liberalize, but not in the ways that we might
predict. She shows how liberalizing authoritarian countries and transitional
democracies may experience more shifting patterns and greater levels of violence
than less developed and democratic countries, due to changes and uncertainties
in economic and political structures. Accordingly, Brysk analyzes the experience
of semi-liberal, developing countries at the frontiers of globalization—Brazil,
India, South Africa, Mexico, the Philippines, and Turkey—to map