Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law

Name: Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035319398
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Author: Nikki Godden-Rasul; Sidonia Lucia Kula
ISBN: 9781035319398

Edited by Nikki Godden-Rasul · Sidonia Lucia Kula

Coming Soon Edward Elgar Publishing Available August 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781035319398
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: August 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

The collection conceptualizes gender, violence and law broadly, enabling expert authors to devise comprehensive strategies against individual aggression, structural violence and intersecting oppressions impacting women and other marginalised groups. Example case studies include sexual violence in conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, feminist legal activism and the undercover policing scandal in the UK, and masculinity, race and violence in post-colonial Italy. Presenting a wide range of perspectives and international voices from scholars, activists and legal professionals, this Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field and provides avenues for future research, such as digital activism and challenging coloniality and academic extractivism in feminist studies.

The Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law is a valuable resource for scholars and students of law, gender studies, sociology, politics, international relations, and media and cultural studies. Activists and legal professionals will also benefit from its insights into key legal and policy debates, and methods of addressing gendered violence.

1.
Gender, violence and law: an introduction 1: Nikki Godden-Rasul and Sidonia Lucia Kula; PART I Manifestations of Violence; 2.
Normalized suffering: obstetric violence in LF v. Ireland 25: Máiréad Enright; 3.
Objecting to protection: gender, race, and youth oppression in failure to: protect legislation 43; Reka Fox; 4.
Plural legal feminist approaches to everyday, enduring, and environmental: violence 60; Gina Heathcote; 5.
Jamaica’s silent femicide: utilizing a decolonial feminist approach to: prevent femicide 76; Char-Lee Lewis; 6.
A decolonial feminist approach to violence against animals 92: Zoe L. Tongue; PART II Bodies and Violence at the Intersections; 7.
A queer kind of ambivalence: CEDAW and gender-based violence against: LGBTQI+ persons 109; Loveday Hodson; 8.
Who is afraid of the Black man? Masculinity, race and violence in postcolonial: Italy 125; Alice Dieci; 9.
‘Hassle, heartache, abuse’: transgender experiences of sex and sexual: violence in one men’s sex offender prison 143; Leigh Downes; 10.
Subverting the normalisation of violence on women’s bodies: the Istanbul: Convention and violence against women in Italy 159; Isabella Da Re; 11.
Male domestic abuse victims in the US and England and Wales 175: Natalie Quinn-Walker; PART III Violent Sites, Spaces and Borders; 12.
Mandating sexual violence prevention within violent institutions 194: Kristin Bumiller and Noa Costom; 13.
Sexual harassment, the university, and the city: contesting socio-legal: constructions of gendered spaces in India 209; Atreyee Sengupta; 14.
‘There are no safe spaces anymore’: ubiquitous connectivity and the: regulation of technology-facilitated misogyny and gender-based violence 226; Benjamin Farrand; 15.
Gender, violence and the courts – a South African perspective 244: Zikhona Ndlebe; 16.
Borders, boundaries, and the state: gendered vulnerabilities and violence 263: Sidonia Lucia Kula; PART IV Language, Narratives and Representations of Violence; 17.
Black Christian clergy members and addressing intimate partner violence:: understanding intersections of law, gender, migration, and violence 283; Gabriella Rutendo Mwedzi; 18.
The male gaze, imperialist narratives and political conflicts in Sudan 301: Nada Ali; 19.
‘What does mattress girl have that we didn’t have?’ Narratives of sexual: violence and social change on US university campuses 317; Tanya Serisier; 20.
Is non-depiction an ethical option? Critical feminist reflections on the: re-presentation of ‘honour crimes’ 331; Hasret Cetinkaya; PART V Feminist Activism, Social Movements and Law; 21.
Mobilising the law: reflections on feminist legal activism and the: undercover policing scandal 347; Harriet Samuels; 22.
Online gender-based violence, law and politics in Brazil 362: Cristina Scheibe Wolff and Elaine Schmitt; 23.
Contrasting systems, sympathetic struggles: #MeToo activists’ legal: engagement in mainland China and Taiwan 379; Xianan Jin and Leiyun Ni; 24.
Affective listening, digital activism and law reform addressing violence: against women 395; Cassandra Sharp and Sarah Ailwood; 25.
Acompañamiento as ethical practice: challenging coloniality and academic: extractivism in feminist research 412; Silvana Tapia Tapia; PART VI Violence, Resistance and (In)Justice; 26.
Consolidating and contesting violence: exploring the legal dimensions of: sexual violence in conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 426; Bilge Sahin; 27.
Culpability, defences and mitigation for the coercively controlled defendant 442: Vanessa Bettinson; 28.
Sexual violence against Dalit women in India: speech, silence and: intersectional resistance 458; Aisha K. Gill and Sundeep Mangat; 29.
Abolition feminism and utopian justice: speculative visionary fiction and: the end of gendered violence 474; Ruth Houghton, Nikki Godden-Rasul, Aoife O’Donoghue,; and Sara Vincenzotti; 30.
The carceral continuum: corrective violence, household imprisonment, and: the limits of law 494; Radhika Pradhan and S.M. Rodriguez