Femicide, Gender and Violence Discourses and Counterdiscourses in It
This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on di
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Daniela Bandelli
Femicide, Gender and Violence Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy
Daniela Bandelli School of Communication and Arts University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia
ISBN 978-3-319-47784-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47785-5
ISBN 978-3-319-47785-5 (eBook)
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PREFACE
This book questions the gender reading of violence by looking at how this paradigm has normalised in Italy since a new feminist term ‘femminicidio’ (feminicide) entered the mainstream media and the 2012 national electoral campaign, and by shedding light on discourses of contestation spoken by family activists, men’s rights and divorced fathers groups. Two counter-discourses emerge. The first is what I call an ‘ideology narrative’ which pivots around the claim that discourses built around the conceptual category of ‘gender’ contribute to normalising certain simplistic representations of relationships between men and women. The second is a ‘female violence discourse’, a discourse that sheds light on under-represented aggressor-victim relations and modifies dominant representations of femininity and masculinity. Integrating these counter-discourses into public debates can help to reappropriate the complexity and biological dimensions of (violent) relationships between men and women, dimensions that have been overshadowed by gender/feminist discoursed and address neglected social
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