AG About Gender. International Journal of Gender History (Web); Alessia Donà (Trento), Bailey Gerrits (Nova Scotia), Sveva Magaraggia (Milano), and Giovanna Vingelli (Rende)

Proposals by: 31.10.2024

Scientific literature and the Istanbul Convention attest the fact that gender-based violence (GBV) is a widespread structural phenomenon with deep roots in a shared culture. Therefore, as GBV is the result of an entrenched and stereotyped gendered culture, we consider it as a socio-cultural and structural problem (Manuh & Biney, 2021; Muluneh et al., 2020), rather than the mere result of a „personal or individual disorder“ (Magaraggia, Cherubini 2013).
The editors understand gender-based violence to include any form of violence targeted at an individual or group based on their gender, gender identity, or gender expression. It also refers to categories of violence disproportionately experienced by women (Manuh & Biney, 2021) and gender-queer individuals and groups. It also includes sexual violence, intimate partner violence, online harms, transphobic violence, homophobic violence, etc. The editors assume that men’s violence against women and gender-based violence have a standard matrix structured in the patriarchal system and in the unequal/asymmetrical gender order. Violence, discriminatory behaviour and stigmatisation of differences arenot simply ‚deviant‘ behaviour but contribute to reproducing and supporting the gender order (Wirtz et al., 2020; Ward & Brewer, 2004).
Focusing on the social construction of masculinity – and not just on male „perpetrators“ of violence – allows us to see the transversal nature of different forms of violence, online or offline: violence against women and homophobic or transphobic violence. Gender-based violence can be understood as a means of regulating and reinscribing relationships between men, between women, and between men and women. Confronting men’s violence against women means engaging with a complex discourse about masculinity, men’s roles in society and the patriarchal system. To fully understand the structural and cultural dynamics of gender-based violence, one must consider how systems of inequality and oppression, such as racism, colonialism, disablism, class, etc., interlock to produce and reproduce the conditions for violence. Read more … (PDF in Italian and English)

Source: Gender Campus

European Journal of Women’s Studies (Web); Júlia Garraio (Univ. of Coimbra) and Hülya Adak (FU Berlin)

Proposals by: 31.10.2024

Aesthetic interventions – including art, literature and film – have the potential to challenge, renegotiate and reconceptualise understandings of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. This Special Issue seeks to address the critical potential of aesthetics to (re)create the interconnections between gender, violence and sexuality, and to incite feminist + activism and transformation (Altınay and Petö, 2022). The question of who speaks and under which conditions, what is said and how, and who listens, hears and actively engages remains as crucial as ever. The Special Issue will focus on how artists, playwrights, writers, poets and filmmakers have engaged with gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence. It will also examine how audiences, activists and the public at large appropriate, interact with and respond to the aesthetics of works and narratives that deal with these forms of violence.
The articles of the Special Issue can address one or more of the following questions:

• What are the ethical implications of aesthetically representing gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence? How is ethics relevant to reading and responding to aesthetic narratives and depictions of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence?
• How can aesthetic representations of gender-based violence, sexual harassment and sexual violence be pivotal in instigating social change? How do works of art, film and literature operate together with emotions and shared imaginaries to generate interest about the topic?
• In what ways can the arts potentially render legal and academic language and tools accessible and legible to survivors, activists and the broader public? How can artistic productions be used to foster debate about the meaning of justice for survivors and their communities? How can the arts, literature, fiction and film be appropriated by different audiences and activists with their variegated agendas? Read more … (Web)

Source: Gender Campus