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Accepted Paper:
Modelled on nature, culture or religion? Violence against women and domestic violence: The Baltic Special.
Anne Kull
(University of Tartu)
Paper short abstract:
Both natural scientists and humanities have tried to ponder the depth and reasons for violence against women. In the international context, especially the Istanbul Convention has made a strong attempt on combating violence against women. The backlash has been strong also in the Baltic states.
Paper long abstract:
Violence against women has attracted attention only during the last few decades. Both natural scientists and humanities have tried to ponder the depth and reasons for it. In the international context, especially the Istanbul Convention has made a strong attempt on preventing and combating violence against women. It has had obvious impact on the legislation of the countries which had ratified it. However, the convention is related also with a strong backlash against the agency of women and gender equality. The IC is functioning as a magnifying glass that brings forth the ugly undercurrents in both secular and religious communities. I will look at the interviews with religious women, and media analysis on the Istanbul convention, collected by the ReliGen project researchers in 2020-2021, and will present some ideas on the implicit reasons (religious, cultural/historical, evolutionary) for this thought-defying pattern in human behavior.