Representing Gender-Based Violence Global Perspectives

This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Williamson Sinalo, Caroline (Editor), Mandolini, Nicoletta (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Subjects:
Sex
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part 1: Representation as Violence
  • 2. Do the Media Make Sexual Violence ‘Congolese’? Phalloand Ethnocentrism in the International Coverage of Dr Mukwege’s Story
  • 3. The Case of Norma Cossetto: A Femorevisionist Issue
  • 4. Representing Human Trafficking as Gendered Violence: Doing Cultural Violence
  • 5. Representing the ‘Comfort Women’: Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan
  • 6. Acid Attacks in Italy: Gender-Based Violence, Victimhood, and Media Representation
  • 7. Diagonal Truths: The Representation of Gender Violence in True Crime Podcasts—The Case of West Cork
  • 8. Albinism and Gender-Based Violence in Women’s Writing from Southern Africa: Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing (2013) and Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory (2015)
  • 9. Transnational Feminist Interventions on Gender-Based Violence During the Bosnian War: Representational Dilemmas in Activism, Advocacy, and Art
  • Part III Representative Re-Imaginings
  • 10. Representing Gender-Based Violence in Spain: Performance Protest, the #Cuéntalo Movement, and Purple Friday
  • 11. Gender, Violence, Populism and (Social) Media in Turkey
  • 12. Mónica Mayer’s ‘El Tendedero’ Project: Forty Years of Feminist Art Framing Gender-Based Violence in Mexico
  • 13. Topless in La Habana: Space, Pleasure, and Visibility in Ethically Representing Gender-Based Violence