__Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award - Politics and Public Life____'Scrupulously researched and documented, illustrated with both statistics and personal stories, this is a book that changes perceptions and could play a substantive role in achieving change.' -Margaret Hebblethwaite, author and missionary in Paraguay__

Published to coincide with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November 2015), Scars Across Humanity is a thoroughly documented investigation into the causes of violence against women, past and present. Global in scope, and addressing the issues as they affect women at every stage of life, this powerful book also offers a probing critique of evolutionary and social-scientific accounts of gender-based violence, and of the role that religion can play, for good or ill, in the struggle against this worldwide problem.

An in-depth exploration of the breadth, intensity and root causes of gender-based violence against women, and the resources we need to drawn on in order to make a meaningful and effective stand against it.

Acknowledgements s x

Introduction: naming the problem 1

1 A global pandemic 4

2 Violence begins before birth: selective abortion and infanticide 18

3 Cut for purity: female genital mutilation 29

4 Early and enforced marriage: child abuse by another name 47

5 Whose 'honour'? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame 59

6 Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: violence in the home 75

7 Money, sex and violence: trafficking and prostitution 96

8 Rape 115

9 War and sexual violence 133

10 Why gender-based violence? It's in our genes: exploring our evolutionary heritage 152

11 Why gender-based violence? Power and patriarchy 170

12 Religion and women 187

13 Christianity and gender: a fuller picture 204

Notes 224

Select bibliography 260

Index 269

Elaine Storkey

Introduction: naming the problem

1 A global pandemic

2 Violence begins before birth: selective abortion and infanticide

3 Cut for purity: female genital mutilation

4 Early and enforced marriage: child abuse by another name

5 Whose ‘honour’? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame

6 Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: violence in the home

7 Money, sex and violence: trafficking and prostitution

8 Rape

9 War and sexual violence

10 Why gender-based violence? It’s in our genes: exploring our evolutionary heritage

11 Why gender-based violence? Power and patriarchy

12 Religion and women

13 Christianity and gender: a fuller picture

Notes

Select bibliography

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Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award - Politics and Public Life

'Scrupulously researched and documented, illustrated with both statistics and personal stories, this is a book that changes perceptions and could play a substantive role in achieving change.' -Margaret Hebblethwaite, author and missionary in Paraguay

Published to coincide with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November 2015), Scars Across Humanity is a thoroughly documented investigation into the causes of violence against women, past and present. Global in scope, and addressing the issues as they affect women at every stage of life, this powerful book also offers a probing critique of evolutionary and social-scientific accounts of gender-based violence, and of the role that religion can play, for good or ill, in the struggle against this worldwide problem.

Written by a Christian feminist thinker and activist, this is a thoroughly researched and documented account of the causes of gender-based violence against women: global in scope, and covering the cruelties and injustices inflicted on women at every stage of life.

An in-depth exploration of the breadth, intensity and root causes of gender-based violence against women, and the resources we need to drawn on in order to make a meaningful and effective stand against it. Written by a widely respected Christian feminist thinker and activist, this is a thoroughly researched and documented account of the causes of gender-based violence against women: global in scope, and covering the cruelties and injustices inflicted on women at every stage of life. Elaine Storkey is a leading Christian feminist thinker and activist, who was for 16 years President of Tearfund (1997-2013). Presents a panoramic picture of the scale of the problem, backed up with compelling first-hand accounts from around the world. Major national publicity campaign, with reviews and features expected in all mainstream media. To be launched on UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November 2015).

'Powerful and absorbing, Scars Across Humanity painstakingly documents the gross injustices facing women around the world ... and what needs to be done to tackle this worldwide problem.' Jackie Harris, Editor, Woman Alive; 'This is a timely book, emerging as the world awakes, too slowly, to the problem of violence against women and girls ... I challenge anyone to read this book and emerge unchanged.' Baroness Maeve Sherlock, House of Lords

Elaine Storkey is a philosopher, sociologist and theologian, having held posts at the Open University, King's College, London, and the University of Oxford. In 1997 she became President of Tearfund, and has since been involved in monitoring aid, relief and advocacy work in countries of the Global South. In 2010 she and her husband Alan became founder members of Restored, an organisation committed to advocating against violence to women. Storkey lectures across the world, including in Haiti, India and Ethiopia, and is a prominent feminist evangelical. Her writings have brought a biblical perspective to the feminist movement, and include What's Right with Feminism (SPCK/Eerdmans, 1985), The Search for Intimacy (Hodder/Eerdmans, 1994) and The Origins of Difference (Baker, 2002).

\["For Christians wanting to understand women's issues", "Scars Across Humanity addresses violence against women", "You will learn how to support and empower others"\]

This book reveals the realities of gender-based violence and offers hope for change.

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