ABSTRACT
This chapter argues for an urgent need to discuss gendered violence not according to the binary logic of ‘victims’ and ‘perpetrators’, but rather, as embedded in power relations that are themselves encased within larger structures of inequality and power. Such an approach requires close attention to be paid to the operations of colonial and post-colonial power relations, racism and heteronormativity, thereby allowing us to see beyond simple categorisations of pathologised masculinity and victimised femininity. This approach allows us to trace the histories of intergenerational violence, wherein gendered violence is an integral part of what I refer to as the structural violence continuum.
