Welcome to Gendering Violence

Since the 1970s research on gendered violence has undergone a paradigmatic shift. Placing women’s experiences of men’s violence in focus has opened up contextual analyses in which connections between gender, violence and power have become visible. This, in turn, has enabled a wide recognition of men’s violence as one of the main threats against women and children, and against the essence of democracy. However, old perspectives persist and take on new forms, in which violence is marginalised, fragmented into separate “types”, or associated with “the others” in contrast to “us”. Today, there is a renewed need for lively academic discussions regarding theories, methodologies and politics to understand and eliminate gendered violence.

How should we interpret the gap between in-principle declarations on gender equality and the violent everyday life of women, children and men?

What are the relations between violence in extreme situations in wartime, ritual contexts or fundamentalist groups (religious and other), and the violence exerted next door?

How do queer, masculinity, postcolonial, and intersectional theories, and phenomena such as honour-related or same-sex violence, challenge feminist research on gendered violence?

How can we analyse new forms of violence against women in the wake of international migration or in the backwaters of legal protection?

We invite you to use this invitation as a source of inspiration, and send in your abstract for a paper on feminist interventions in contemporary research on gendered violence.   

  

Contact

genderingviolence@soc.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 11 90

Gendering Violence
Department of Sociology
Uppsala University
PO. Box 624
SE-751 26 UPPSALA
SWEDEN

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