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Subject(s)

• Women—Violence against—Spain—History [Browse]

Editor

• Gámez Fuentes, Ma. José (María José) [Browse]
• García, Rebeca Maseda [Browse]

Series

Violence studies ; vol. 3

Summary note

For the true exercise of citizenship to occur, gender violence must be eradicated, as it is not an interpersonal problem, but an attack on the very concept of democracy. Despite increasing social awareness and legal measures taken to fight gender violence, it is still prevalent worldwide. Even in a country such as Spain, praised in the UN Handbook for Legislation on Violence Against Women (2010) for its advanced approach on gender violence, the legal framework has proved insufficient and deeper sociocultural changes are needed. This book presents, in this respect, groundbreaking investigations in the realm of politics, activism, and cultural production that offer both a complex picture of the agents involved in its transformation and a nuanced panorama of initiatives that subvert the normative framework of recognition of victims of gender violence. As a result, the book chapters articulate a construction of the victim as a subject that reflects and acts upon his/her experience and vulnerability, and also adopt perspectives that frame accountability within the representational tradition, the community, and the state.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The configuration of gender violence : a matrix to be re-loaded / María José Gámez Fuentes & Rebeca Maseda García
• Theory and politics
• To conceptualize is to politicize : why Spain has acted as pioneer regarding "gender violence" / Ana de Miguel Álvarez
• In the wake of Ana Orantes : for an ethical representation of violence against women / Juana Gallego
• Silenced voices : prostitutes, lesbians and "bad women" in Spanish public policies on gender violence / Emma Gómez Nicolau
• Activism and associations
• Tactical media and activism against gender-based violence : fetishization and counter-hegemonic frameworks of recognition / Sonia Núñez Puente
• Feminist activism and the role of memory in revisiting the discourse on gender violence in Spain / Laura Castillo Mateu
• Dialogues among diverse women : transforming established hegemonic narratives in associative initiatives / Lídia Puigvert and Cristina Pulido
• Cultural production
• Narrative representations of gendered violence and women's resistance in francoist Spain : Dulce Chacón's la voz Dormida (2002) and almudena grandes's inés y la Alegría (2010) / Sarah Peggott
• From the rape of europe to art against gender violence in Spanish culture / Marián López Fdz. Cao and Juan Carlos Gauli
• Homophobia, ethical witnessing and the matrix of gendered violence : issues of intersectionality in Federico Luppi's pasos / Alfredo Martinez-Expósito
• Chapter
• Ella(s) : resisting victimhood, unveiling institutional violence in docufiction / Vera Burgos-Hernández
• Carmina o revienta and Carmina y amen : female transgressions of victimhood in Spanish popular cinema / María Castejón Leorza and Rebeca Maseda García
• No more victims : changing the script / Rebeca Maseda García & María José Gámez Fuentes.

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ISBN

• 9781433139987 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 1433139987 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2017026092

OCLC

992748592

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