This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels.

Foreword Lois A. HermanSeries Editor Preface Dilip K. Das and Vicente RiccioIntroduction: An interfaces approach to the global problems of gender-based domestic violenceDongling Zhang and Diana PetersonSection One: North and South America1. The myth of the universal woman: The (white) feminist fantasy and the invisibility of violence against women of colorRoksana Badruddoja2. Paradigm shift in Latin American legislation over time: From domestic violence laws to comprehensive legislation on gender-based violence against women (1990-2020)Nancy Madera3.Gender-based violence and femicide in Mexico: Why is the law failing to protect Mexico’s women?Emily Acevedo4. Violence against women in Mexico City: A cry for changeFlor Avellaneda and Luis R. Torres5. Severe licking: Calypso considers domestic violenceAlison Mc Letchie and Daina Nathaniel6. Gender-based violence in the English-speaking Caribbean: Chronicling Guyana’s progressAneesa A. Baboolal7. Intersectionality as a means to understanding violence against women in BelizeKiesha Warren-Gordon8. The dangers of being a woman in NicaraguaPamela NeumannSection Two: Asia and Oceania9. Response to domestic violence: IndiaArundhati Bhattacharyya10. Combating domestic violence and sexual and gender-based violence during conflict: The case of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and BangladeshTonny Kirabira and Fiza Lee-Winter11. Malaysia responding to domestic violence: A corpus-assisted discourse analysisMohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail, Bahiyah Dato Haji Abd Hamid and Ruzy Suliza Hashim12. From private matter to public problem: Relocating gender-based violence in ChinaDongling Zhang13. Social taboos and legal constraints: The status of domestic violence in KuwaitAlanoud AlSharekh and Nour AlMukhled14. “Mobilizing for punishment”: Legal activism, women's NGOs, and the grassroots in LebanonSirin Knecht15. Domestic violence in Thailand: An in-depth examination of how culture and resource-seeking barriers impact victim safetyTanya Grant16. Domestic violence in Micronesian context: Past and future challengesHiroaki Matsuura Section Three: Africa17. Domestic violence in Ethiopia: An overviewFikresus Amahazion18. Between reality and expectations: Tackling domestic violence in EgyptHiam Elgousi19. Domestic and sexual violence among university students in GhanaMichelle L. Munro-Kramer, Lindsay M. Cannon, Eugene K. M. Darteh, Ruth Owusu-Antwi, and Sarah D. Compton20. Domestic violence, human rights, and reform in MauritaniaNabil Ouassini and Anwar OuassiniSection Four: Perpetrators and Victims (Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Migrant, and Refugee Populations)21. Responding to intimate partner violence against women in Spain: Perpetrators’ accounts as a new variable to the ecological approach modelMostafa Boieblan22. Why domestic violence remains under-reported within migrant communities in GermanyFiza Lee-Winter23. Ritualized experiences of pain: Love and domestic violence among transgender women in BrazilThiago de Lima Oliveira and Veronica Alcantara Guerra24. Socio-legal responses to immigrant and refugee male batterers in the EU and MENA regionsChuka Emezue