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Femicide, Gender and Violence - Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Femicide, Gender and Violence - Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how
this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist
term 'femminicidio', or 'femicide', entered the mainstream media
during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses
of contestation on the part of family activists, men's rights
campaigners and divorced fathers' groups. Two counter-discourses
emerge. The first is what the author terms an 'ideology narrative',
for which discourses built around the conceptual category of
'gender' normalize simplistic representations of relationships
between men and women. The second is a 'female violence discourse',
which sheds light on under-represented aggressor-victim relations
and modifies dominant representations of femininity and
masculinity. The author argues that integrating these two
discourses into public debates helps to reappropriate the
complexity and biological dimensions of (violent) relationships
between men and women, often overshadowed by gender/feminist
perspectives. In this way, she concludes, we can address neglected
social issues that contribute to violence beyond gender. This
thought-provoking book will appeal to students and scholars of
sociology, critical discourse studies and gender.
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