In this commentary, I provide critical feedback to a suite of interventions directed toward the geographic study of gendered violence. In furthering this dialogue, I identify three interrelated objects that must be foundational to any geographic study of gendered violence: putting the ‘person’ into interpersonal violence; resituating understandings of home, family, and violence; and the promotion of a denaturalized violence.
AngelesLSunantaS (2007) ‘Exotic love at your fingertips’: intermarriage websites, gendered representation, and the transnational migration of Filipino and Thai women. Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies22: 3–31.
2.
BalsamKFSzymanskiDM (2005) Relationship quality and domestic violence in women’s same-sex relationships: the role of minority stress. Psychology of Women Quarterly29: 258–269.
3.
BlomleyN (2003) Law, property, and the geography of violence: the frontier, the survey, and the grid. Annals of the Association of American Geographers93: 121–141.
4.
BornsteinDRFawcettJSullivanM. (2006) Understanding the experiences of lesbian, bisexual and trans survivors of domestic violence: a qualitative study. Journal of Homosexuality51: 159–181.
5.
CorteenK (2002) Lesbian safety talk: problematizing definitions and experiences of violence, sexuality and space. Sexualities5: 259–280.
6.
CrandallMSenturiaKSullivanM. (2005) ‘No way out’: Russian-speaking women’s experiences with domestic violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence20: 941–958.
7.
CuomoD (2013) Security and fear: the geopolitics of intimate partner violence policing. Geopolitics18: 856–874.
8.
DowlerLCuomoDLaliberteN (2014) Challenging ‘the penn state way’: A feminist response to institutional violence in higher education. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography21: 387–394.
9.
FariaCMollettS (2016) Critical feminist reflexivity and the politics of whiteness in the ‘field’. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography23(1): 79–93.
10.
FluriJL (2009) Geopolitics of gender and violence ‘from below’. Political Geography28: 259–265.
11.
GirdnerEJSmithJ (2002) Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice. New York: Monthly Review Press.
12.
GirshickLB (2002) Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call it Rape?Boston: Northeastern University Press.
13.
Gorman-MurrayA (2007) Reconfiguring domestic values: meanings of home for gay men and lesbians. Housing, Theory and Society24: 229–246.
14.
GregoryDPredA (eds) (2007) Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror, and Political Violence. New York: Routledge.
15.
HasdayJE (2000) Contest and consent: a legal history of marital rape. California Law Review88: 1373–1505.
NixonR (2011) Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
27.
PainR (1991) Space, sexual violence and social control: integrating geographical and feminist analysis of women’s fear of crime. Progress in Human Geography15: 415–431.
28.
PainR (1997) Whither women’s fear? Perceptions of sexual violence in public and private space. International Review of Victimology4: 297–312.
29.
PainR (2001) Gender, race, age and fear in the city. Urban studies38: 899–913.
PulidoL (2015) Geographies of race and ethnicity I: White supremacy vs white privilege in environmental racism research. Progress in Human Geography. Epub ahead of print 21 January 2015. DOI:10.1177/0309132514563008.
35.
RenzettiCM (1988) Violence in lesbian relationships: a preliminary analysis of causal factors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence3: 381–399.
36.
SpringerS (2011) Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies. Political Geography30: 90–98.
37.
SpringerS (2012) Neoliberalizing violence: of the exceptional and the exemplary in coalescing moments. Area44: 136–143.
38.
StankoE (2001) The day to count: reflections on a methodology to raise awareness about the impact of domestic violence in the UK. Criminology and Criminal Justice1: 215–226.
39.
TynerJA (2009) War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count. New York: The Guilford Press.
40.
TynerJA (2012) Space, Place, and Violence: Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex, and Gender. New York: Routledge.
41.
TynerJA (2014) Dead labor, homo sacer, and letting die in the labor market. Human Geography7: 35–48.
42.
TynerJA (2016) Violence in Capitalism: Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
43.
ValentineG (1992) Images of danger: women’s sources of information about the spatial distribution of male violence. Area24: 22–29.
44.
ValentineG (1993) (Hetero)sexing space: lesbian perceptions and experiences of everyday space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space11: 395–413.
45.
ValentineG (1996) Angels and devils: moral landscapes of childhood. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space14: 581–599.
46.
ValentineGSkeltonTBulterR (2003) Coming out and outcomes: negotiating lesbian and gay identities with, and in, the family. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space21: 479–499.
47.
Waldner-HaugrudLK (1999) Sexual coercion in lesbian and gay relationships: a review and critique. Aggression and Violent Behavior4: 139–149.
48.
ZerubavelE (2006) The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
