Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law

Edited by Nikki Godden-Rasul, Senior Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University, UK and Sidonia Lucia Kula, Lecturer in Law and Gender, SOAS, University of London, UK

‘By adopting an expansive, interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to gendered violence, this edited collection is a must read for anyone working or studying in the field. Bringing together authors from academia and practice, the book transcends conventional subject matter, providing critical feminist insights into a diverse array of issues and phenomena.’

• Contents1 Gender, violence and law: an introduction 1Nikki Godden-Rasul and Sidonia Lucia KulaPART I Manifestations of Violence2 Normalized suffering: obstetric violence in LF v. Ireland 25Máiréad Enright3 Objecting to protection: gender, race, and youth oppression in failure toprotect legislation 43Reka Fox4 Plural legal feminist approaches to everyday, enduring, and environmentalviolence 60Gina Heathcote5 Jamaica’s silent femicide: utilizing a decolonial feminist approach toprevent femicide 76Char-Lee Lewis6 A decolonial feminist approach to violence against animals 92Zoe L. TonguePART II Bodies and Violence at the Intersections7 A queer kind of ambivalence: CEDAW and gender-based violence againstLGBTQI+ persons 109Loveday Hodson8 Who is afraid of the Black man? Masculinity, race and violence in postcolonialItaly 125Alice Dieci9 ‘Hassle, heartache, abuse’: transgender experiences of sex and sexualviolence in one men’s sex offender prison 143Leigh Downes10 Subverting the normalisation of violence on women’s bodies: the IstanbulConvention and violence against women in Italy 159Isabella Da Re11 Male domestic abuse victims in the US and England and Wales 175Natalie Quinn-WalkerPART III Violent Sites, Spaces and Borders12 Mandating sexual violence prevention within violent institutions 194Kristin Bumiller and Noa Costom13 Sexual harassment, the university, and the city: contesting socio-legalconstructions of gendered spaces in India 209Atreyee Sengupta14 ‘There are no safe spaces anymore’: ubiquitous connectivity and theregulation of technology-facilitated misogyny and gender-based violence 226Benjamin Farrand15 Gender, violence and the courts – a South African perspective 244Zikhona Ndlebe16 Borders, boundaries, and the state: gendered vulnerabilities and violence 263Sidonia Lucia KulaPART IV Language, Narratives and Representations of Violence17 Black Christian clergy members and addressing intimate partner violence:understanding intersections of law, gender, migration, and violence 283Gabriella Rutendo Mwedzi18 The male gaze, imperialist narratives and political conflicts in Sudan 301Nada Ali19 ‘What does mattress girl have that we didn’t have?’ Narratives of sexualviolence and social change on US university campuses 317Tanya Serisier20 Is non-depiction an ethical option? Critical feminist reflections on there-presentation of ‘honour crimes’ 331Hasret CetinkayaPART V Feminist Activism, Social Movements and Law21 Mobilising the law: reflections on feminist legal activism and theundercover policing scandal 347Harriet Samuels22 Online gender-based violence, law and politics in Brazil 362Cristina Scheibe Wolff and Elaine Schmitt23 Contrasting systems, sympathetic struggles: #MeToo activists’ legalengagement in mainland China and Taiwan 379Xianan Jin and Leiyun Ni24 Affective listening, digital activism and law reform addressing violenceagainst women 395Cassandra Sharp and Sarah Ailwood25 Acompañamiento as ethical practice: challenging coloniality and academicextractivism in feminist research 412Silvana Tapia TapiaPART VI Violence, Resistance and (In)Justice26 Consolidating and contesting violence: exploring the legal dimensions ofsexual violence in conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 426Bilge Sahin27 Culpability, defences and mitigation for the coercively controlled defendant 442Vanessa Bettinson28 Sexual violence against Dalit women in India: speech, silence andintersectional resistance 458Aisha K. Gill and Sundeep Mangat29 Abolition feminism and utopian justice: speculative visionary fiction andthe end of gendered violence 474Ruth Houghton, Nikki Godden-Rasul, Aoife O’Donoghue,and Sara Vincenzotti30 The carceral continuum: corrective violence, household imprisonment, andthe limits of law 494Radhika Pradhan and S.M. Rodriguez