Aug 2026· Politics & Gender· 1 citation· 14 references
Abstract
The literature on violence against women in politics (VAWIP) has made substantial contributions to understanding how gender shapes political exclusion. Foundational work by Krook and Restrepo Sanín (2016; 2020) defined VAWIP as a form of hate crime and as systematic backlash against women’s entry into political life. This conceptual scaffolding informs Krook’s (2022) subsequent attention to semiotic and symbolic harm, extending the VAWIP framework beyond physical violence to encompass the representational strategies through which female politicians are delegitimized. Bjarnegård and Zetterberg’s (2023) edited volume extends the framework further, recognizing that gender-based political violence operates across a broader range of contexts and along a “psychological-physical continuum” (7) that is neither temporally nor institutionally confined to election cycles or legislative chambers.
The literature on violence against women in politics (VAWIP) implicitly treats such violence as boundary enforcement: a political field already exists; the violence women encounter marks the edge they are not permitted to cross; and the state stands as the guarantor of protection and redress under the rule of law, whet...
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In the last decade, research on violence against women in politics (VAWIP) has increased significantly. First identified by women activists in the Global South, VAWIP refers to behaviors that specifically target women as women by pressuring them to leave politics (Krook and Sanín 2016). Activists in Bolivia and later i...
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