ABSTRACT
Women's movements and feminisms of the second wave in many parts of the world challenged sexualized and/or gendered violence against women, as in India (Desai, 2006: 459) and Latin America (Küppers, 2000; Potthast, 2003: 359) from their beginning and on a global level at least since the Nairobi Conference 1985 (Antrobus, 2004: 55). 1 But dealing with violence involves one fundamental problem concerning the key concept: How is violence to be understood? Is there only one concept that relates to every part of the world, to all social groups, to the past as well as to the present and the future? Or is it better to see violence as “man” (or “woman”) made and therefore subject to historical, regional, and cultural difference and change?
