Gender ARC and Global Women’s Studies at NUI Galway are pleased to invite you to a public lecture:

Sylvia Walby, Distinguished Professor, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research

Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

Preventing gender based violence against women: Can this be mainstreamed?

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Refreshments will be served – please RSVP to Gillian Browne (gillian.browne@nuigalway.ie) Abstract: Preventing violence against women requires reforms in all social institutions. It cannot be solved by a narrow focus on one domain, such as the criminal justice system. The policy device of ‰Û÷gender mainstreaming’ has potential to reach into all policy domains; but it has not yet been successful. How should the necessary transformations be theorised; how can they be put into practice? What are the strengths and limits of gender mainstreaming? Is estimating the ‰Û÷cost’ of violence against women to economy and society a way forward, reaching parts of policy and political institutions that no feminist action could otherwise reach? This talk explores the dilemmas in the current debates on how best to prevent violence against women and reaches a decisive conclusion. Sylvia Walby is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, Lancaster University, UK. She has been advising on the cost of gender-based violence for the European Institute for Gender Equality and UK Home Office. She is leading an ESRC funded project: ‰Û÷Is domestic violence increasing or decreasing? She is currently working on the measurement of gender-based violence for the Council of Europe to assist the implementation of the Istanbul Convention’s Article 11. Recent books include: Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (Sage 2009) and The Future of Feminism (Polity 2011). Her next book is the jointly authored Stopping Rape: Towards a Comprehensive Policy (forthcoming Policy Press 2015), which draws on work for the European Parliament. This will be followed by Crisis for Polity Press (forthcoming 2015). Her website is: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Sylvia-Walby For questions, please contact Gender ARC Seminar and Public Lecture Series coordinator: Emma BrÌ_nnlund, e.brannlund1@nuigalway.ie