Title:	Femicide, Gender and Violence Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy
Authors:	Bandelli, Daniela
Keywords:	Femicide, Gender
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	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 issues that contribute to violence beyond gender.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/19963
ISBN:	978-3-319-47785-5
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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