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This book discusses femicide in Italy, and the cultural
conversations that have resulted from feminist discourse on lethal
violence against women entering the mainstream, by analyzing
journalistic inquiries and literary works produced after 2012. In a
global and national context where activism's goals are mainly
discursive this study deepens our understanding of the role played
by written narratives in the critique of a public interest matter
such as gender-based violence. The first part of the book is
dedicated to the analysis of three journalistic inquiries published
in book format that focus on one or more cases of femicide that
happened on the Italian peninsula. The second section draws on the
concept of feminist rewriting to propose the analysis of a
heterogeneous body of literary texts that explore some of the most
controversial and notorious femicide cases covered by previous
journalistic, historical, or mythical narratives, before
demonstrating the close connection between theoretical and
narrative discourse within the analyzed texts. This is a
fascinating case study contributing to global understandings of
gender-based violence, which will be important for researchers in
gender studies, sociology, and media studies.
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.
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