Domestic Labour, Violence and Exploitation: Global Gendered Perspectives
Domestic Labour, Violence and Exploitation: Global Gendered Perspectives
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: FSE014 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG11 Violence and Society (host committee) Language: English
Much of the broader focus on domestic labour tends to differentiate the exploitation experienced by waged domestic workers, as a problem of employment and migration conditions, which sits apart from the abuse of unwaged women's labour in the context of intimate partner and familial relationships. This poses significant challenges in recognising that the domestic setting remains a place of significant gendered violence that is largely unaccounted for by states globally: as a form of interpersonal violence and as a form of labour exploitation. In this regular session, we are seeking to bring together new and established scholars who have interrogated domestic work from a variety of perspectives, with a view to challenge understandings of gendered labour and gendered violence, and to consider the failings and failures of local, national and international responses to the violence that women differentially experience in this setting. We specifically seek to encourage critical work that have explored how notions of violence, safety and exploitation in domestic labour are sustained, challenged and interrogated in different societies and temporal contexts.
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