Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Caroline Williamson Sinalo and Nicoletta Mandolini (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Explores the politics, ethics and pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

Examines how GBV is represented across philosophy/epistemology, fiction and non-fictional media representations

Discusses feminism in relation with global trends to identify its cultural frontline.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Naming Practices
GBV and Representation
Global Perspectives
Contemporality
Overall Aim and Structure of Book
Works Cited
Part I: Representation as Violence
Chapter 2: Do the Media Make Sexual Violence ‘Congolese’? Phallo- and Ethnocentrism in the International Coverage of Dr Mukwege’s Story
Sexual Violence and the DRC
Methodology
Part 1: Phallocentrism—The Man Who Repairs Women
‘The fight against sexual violence, the fight of his life’: The Dedicated Surgeon Activist
‘The world is listening to you’?: Absent Women
‘L’homme qui répare les femmes’: The Man Who Fixes Women
‘Ravaged, disembowelled, demolished’: Women as Spectacular Objects
Summary of Part 1
Part 2: Ethnocentrism—Civilizing Toxic Congolese Masculinity
‘Unheard of barbarism’: An Unprecedented Weapon Caused by African Patriarchy
‘He wouldn’t have been able to do it alone’: Mukwege’s Need for the West
It is up to the international community to do it! Congo’s Need for International Saviours
Europe and the West are ‘the only oases of peace and prosperity’? Ignoring Western Sexual Violence
Summary of Part 2
Discussion and Conclusions
Works Cited
Chapter 3: The Case of Norma Cossetto: A Femorevisionist Issue
Istria, That Summer/Autumn (1943)
The Nineties and Noughties
Foibe rosse [Red Pits]: The Book
Foiba rossa [Red pit]: The Graphic Novel
Red Land / Rosso Istria: The Movie
From Fiction to Reality
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Representing Human Trafficking as Gendered Violence: Doing Cultural Violence
Introduction
Representing Human Trafficking…as Sex Trafficking…as Violence Against Women
Representation as Violence
Trafficking Representations as Cultural Violence
Conclusion: The Possibility of Alternative Representations
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Representing the ‘Comfort Women’: Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan
Analytical Approach
The Women’s Tribunal
The Contracting Argument
The Yasukuni and the Yūshūkan
Conclusions
Works Cited
Part II: Revealing Representations
Chapter 6: Acid Attacks in Italy: Gender-Based Violence, Victimhood, and Media Representation
A Global Overview
Identity Murder in Italy: The Shaping of a Gender-Specific Crime
Media Coverage of Acid Attacks in Italy
Cases Generated in the Context of Heterosexual Relationships
Acid Attacks Outside the Context of Heterosexual Relationships in Italy
Ideal Victims and Gender
Conclusions
Works Cited
Videos
Chapter 7: Diagonal Truths: The Representation of Gender Violence in True Crime Podcasts—The Case of West Cork
Podcasts and the Groundbreaking Serial (2014)
True Crime Podcasting and the Ethics of Obliquity
True Crime, Obliquity and Gender-Based Violence
Conclusions
Works Cited
Chapter 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)
Introduction
Zebra Crossing and The Book of Memory
Reconstructed Stories of Childhood Memories
The Elusive Promise of Inclusion
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Transnational Feminist Interventions on Gender-Based Violence During the Bosnian War: Representational Dilemmas in Activism, Advocacy, and Art
Introduction
Gender-Based Violence During the Bosnian War and Its Contested Interpretations
Overcoming Victimization and Essentialism: Artistic Representations of Gendered Violence
Conclusion
Works Cited
Part III: Representative Re-Imaginings
Chapter 10: Representing Gender-Based Violence in Spain: Performance Protest, the #Cuéntalo Movement, and Purple Friday
Introduction
Politics, Aesthetics, ‘Dissensus’ and Activist Performance in Public Space
Gender Roles in Spain
Gender Violence and Gender Equality Legislation in Spain
Protest and la manada
Free, Strong, Respected and Heard—The Sound of Protest
Spain’s Largest Spontaneous Feminist Uprising in Living Memory
Representing Civic Empowerment: #Cuéntalo
A Feminist Emergency: Purple Friday
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 11: Gender, Violence, Populism and (Social) Media in Turkey
Gender, Violence and (Social) Media
Gender-Based Violence in Turkish Authoritarian Populism and the Istanbul Convention
The Istanbul Convention and (Social) Media
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 12: Mónica Mayer’s ‘El Tendedero’ Project: Forty Years of Feminist Art Framing Gender-Based Violence in Mexico
Uprising of Second-Wave Mexican Feminist Movement and Mayer: Art, Politics, and Life
El Tendedero: A ‘living work’ on Gender-Based Violence
Strategies, Heritages, Implications
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Topless in La Habana: Space, Pleasure, and Visibility in Ethically Representing Gender-Based Violence
Space, Place, and Resistance
Pleasure, Bodies, Joyfulness
Visibility: Looking and Being Seen
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index