Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law

Edited by Nikki Godden-Rasul and Sidonia Lucia Kula

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Research Handbook rigorously explores how law responds to gender and violence, how law (re)produces gender and violence, and how law is gendered and violent. It analyses various legal systems, institutions and areas of law at the local, national, regional and global level.

Keywords: Gendered Violence; Feminist Activism; Feminist And Queer Legal Theory; Intersectionality; Power; Identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035319398
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Gender, violence and law: an introduction

Nikki Godden-Rasul and Sidonia Lucia Kula

Ch 2 Normalized suffering: obstetric violence in LF v. Ireland

Máiréad Enright

Ch 3 Objecting to protection: gender, race and youth oppression in failure to protect legislation

Reka Fox

Ch 4 Plural legal feminist approaches to everyday, enduring and environmental violence

Gina Heathcote

Ch 5 Jamaica's silent femicide: utilizing a decolonial feminist approach to prevent femicide

Char-Lee Lewis

Ch 6 A decolonial feminist approach to violence against animals

Zoe L. Tongue

Ch 7 A queer kind of ambivalence: CEDAW and gender-based violence against LGBTQI+ persons

Loveday Hodson

Ch 8 Who is afraid of the Black man? Masculinity, race and violence in post-colonial Italy

Alice Dieci

Ch 9 ‘Hassle, heartache, abuse’: transgender experiences of sex and sexual violence in one men's sex offender prison

Leigh Downes

Ch 10 Subverting the normalization of violence on women's bodies: the Istanbul Convention and violence against women in Italy

Isabella Da Re

Ch 11 Male domestic abuse victims in the US and England and Wales

Natalie Quinn-Walker

Ch 12 Mandating sexual violence prevention within violent institutions

Kristin Bumiller and Noa Costom

Ch 13 Sexual harassment, the university and the city: contesting socio-legal constructions of gendered spaces in India

Atreyee Sengupta

Ch 14 ‘There are no safe spaces anymore’: ubiquitous connectivity and the regulation of technology-facilitated misogyny and gender-based violence

Benjamin Farrand

Ch 15 Gender, violence and the courts: a South African perspective

Zikhona Ndlebe

Ch 16 Borders, boundaries and the state: gendered vulnerabilities and violence

Sidonia Lucia Kula

Ch 17 Black Christian clergy members and addressing intimate partner violence: understanding intersections of law, gender, migration and violence

Gabriella Rutendo Mwedzi

Ch 18 The male gaze, imperialist narratives and political conflicts in Sudan

Nada Ali

Ch 19 ‘What does mattress girl have that we didn’t have?’ Narratives of sexual violence and social change on US university campuses

Tanya Serisier

Ch 20 Is non-depiction an ethical option? Feminist reflections on the re-presentation of ‘honour crimes’

Hasret Cetinkaya

Ch 21 Mobilising the law: reflections on feminist legal activism and the undercover policing scandal

Harriet Samuels

Ch 22 Online gender-based violence, law and politics in Brazil

Cristina Scheibe Wolff and Elaine Schmitt

Ch 23 Contrasting systems, sympathetic struggles: #MeToo activists’ legal engagement in mainland China and Taiwan

Xianan Jin and Leiyun Ni

Ch 24 Affective listening, digital activism and law reform addressing violence against women

Cassandra Sharp and Sarah Ailwood

Ch 25 Acompañamiento as ethical practice: challenging coloniality and academic extractivism in feminist research

Silvana Tapia Tapia

Ch 26 Consolidating and contesting violence: exploring the legal dimensions of sexual violence in conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bilge Sahin

Ch 27 Culpability, defences and mitigation for the coercively controlled defendant

Vanessa Bettinson

Ch 28 Sexual violence against Dalit women in India: speech, silence and intersectional resistance

Aisha K. Gill and Sundeep Mangat

Ch 29 Abolition feminism and utopian justice: speculative visionary fiction and the end of gendered violence

Ruth Houghton, Nikki Godden-Rasul, Aoife O’Donoghue and Sara Vincenzotti

Ch 30 The carceral continuum: corrective violence, household imprisonment and the limits of law

Radhika Pradhan and S.M. Rodriguez

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