(In)Visible Signs of Gender-Based Violence

by Anne Wagner (Editor), Angela Condello (Editor)

Overview

The edited volume explores the causes, forms, and cultures of gender-based violence in society, including how children are educated, how games, art and even language promote differences, stereotypes, neutrality between men and women. It is a place to reflect on the growing importance of tolerance, diversity and acceptance of others. The book focuses on many facets, whether in a confined or public space, with a series of empirical and theoretical chapters from around the world.

The volume provides key contemporary commentary on the changing dynamics of gender-based violence. It unveils a range of contexts and spaces in which gender-based violence happens, showcasing its scale and impact worldwide. The discussions presented in the book encourage a critical reflection on the global pandemic of gender-based violence, prompting a vital question about the sufficiency and effectiveness of responses to this global crisis (Professor Olga Jurasz, The Open University Law School).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031355127
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	04/08/2025
Series:	Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism , #1
Edition description:	2024
Pages:	559
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Anne Wagner (Ph.D. and Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Private Law) is Research Associate Professor at Lille University, ULR 4487-CRDP-Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit (France). Her main research lies in visual jurisprudence, Law and Semiotics, Law and Criminology, Legal Discourse Analyses, Law and the Humanities, jurilinguistics and Legal Translation. She is a recipient of the National Research Award (Rank A) for her research career and Comenda Jurista Tobias Barreto, Alta Distinção da Cultura Juridica, Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos do Direito, Recife, Brazil. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Springer), President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law, Series Co-Editor of Law, Language and Communication (Routledge), and Series Co-Editor of Law and Visual Jurisprudence; Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism; Living Signs of Law (Springer).

Prof. Angela Condello (JD, PhD) is Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Law Department, University of Messina. She is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, where she held a Jean Monnet Module on human rights and critical legal thinking within the European legal culture (2017-2020). Her main research lies in legal theory, algorithm and legal method, legal feminism, critical theories of law, and law and humanities. She sits on the board of numerous journals and book series and is the author of six books, including Il diritto come metodo e la scienza algoritmica (ETS 2022) and Money, Social Ontology and Law (with J.R. Searle and M. Ferraris, Routledge 2019). She is the series Co-editor of Sotto Sopra la Legge. Questioni di giusfemminismo (Mimesis).

Table of Contents

Unveiling the Paradox: Navigating the Visibility and Invisibility of Gender-Based Violence.- Part 1. Fluid Identities and Dynamics in Gender-Based Violence.- Leibnizian Response to Being Born this Way.- From Gender Binary ♀♂ to Gender Diversity ⚧ + X λ: Unveiling New Horizons in Societal Transformation.- On the Relation of Cause-Effect between Symbolic Violence and Gender-Based Violence.- Exploring Perspectives on Mass Violence: A Comparative Study of Banality of Evil Report and Feminist Theories on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.- Catcalling as Demonstration of Masculinity in Public Space: Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Germany.- The Weak Subject: Talking about the Mediatic Representation of Gender-Based Violence.- Gender-Based Violence and some of its Forms in Modern Conditions.- The Terror of Hate – Conceptualizing Sexual Violence against Women as a Gender-Based Hate Crime.- Part 2. Empowering Voices, Combating Shadows: The Digital Frontier.- Gender-Based Violence: where are we at? Threats and Tools in the Digital Era.- Equal Access to Justice for Women: Is Legal Technology the Answer? Observations and Global Trends from Asia and Europe.- Gender-Based Violence in Cyberspace: An International Law Perspective.- Reforming AI for Gender Equality: An Examination of Canadian Algorithmic Impact Assessment.- Online Violence Against Women - A Contemporary Assessment of the Adequacy of the Online Safety Response.- A Platform for the Patriarchy: Offline Attitudes Driving Online Violence Against Women and Girls.- “A Nightclub Dancer also has a Master’s Degree?”: Features and Causes of Gender-Based Violence on Chinese Social Media Platform.- Gender Violence and Political Discourse in Colombia: An Analysis of the Use of Social Networks to Spread Hate.- Unveiling Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in South Korea - Signs of Gender-based Violence, Legal Reforms, and the Role of Criminal Law.- Part 3. Frameworks Intersected: Gender, Justice, and Societal Dynamics.- Disembodied Narratives and their Role in the Production of a Geography of Gender-Based Violence.- Iconizing, Gendering, and Ageing: the Semiotics of Italian Signer Mina between Face and Mask.- Invisible vs. Ordinary Child-based violence: To what Extent should the Corporal Punishment be evaluated?.- The Ambivalences of Labor Law for Gender Equality in Brazil and France.- Balancing Tradition and Gender Justice: Revisiting Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act and Its Impact on Women’s Autonomy and Constitutional Rights.- Making the Criminal Policy Discourse Visible: Obscurity of Sexual Consent in Spanish Regulations of Sex Crimes.- Afghanistan: Currency-Woman and the Global Moral Market.- (Un)Livable Minds: the Lived Experience of Trans and Gender-diverse people as Service Users of Mental Health Care Services in Barcelona.