Online gender-based violence, law and politics in Brazil

Cristina Scheibe Wolff and Elaine Schmitt

Chapter 22 in Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law, 2026, pp 360-376 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter is dedicated to a critical study of gender-based violence on the internet in Brazil and its connection with politics and some related laws. The construction of a feminist solidarity network and the potential increase in the dissemination of information about rights for women and girls, as well as other minorities, are considered important ways that the internet has enhanced feminist mobilization. On the other hand, the study also aims to map problems related to attacks such as non-consensual dissemination of intimate images (NCII), doxxing, hate speech, stalking and other forms of online violence that contain misogynistic and discriminatory content. Anchored by the History of the Present Time, we propose a bibliographical review of how increased access to the internet has brought challenges to the Brazilian judiciary, which has had to and still has to draw up laws to ensure that these human groups can enter and remain on the web.

Keywords: Gender-based violence; Women’s History; Feminisms; Internet; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035319398
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