Representing Gender-Based Violence

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 domains of philosophy/epistemology, fiction and the arts (including literature, film, television series and music) and non-fictional representations in the media (including broadcast media, online/print journalism, transmedia activism). The volume identifies contemporary representational practices and the theoretical and critical responses, examining various aspects of popular culture from around the world. In doing so, the editors put feminism in conversation with global trends to identify its cultural frontline. The volume will appeal to scholars working on gender and violence from diverse fields.

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

Autorentext

Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo is Lecturer in World Languages at University College Cork, Ireland, author of Rwanda after Genocide: Gender, Identity and Posttraumatic Growth (2018) and co-author of Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the next Generation (2022). She has published widely on the lives and experiences of survivors of violence.

Dr Nicoletta Mandolini is Researcher at CECS-Universidade do Minho, Portugal, where she is working on a project on gender violence and its representation in comics and graphic novels. She is author of Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy between Journalism and Literature. *Femminicidio Narratives* (2021).

Inhalt

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 PodcastsThe 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.