Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture

María José Gámez Fuentes is Associate Professor at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). She has published extensively on the representation on gender violence and its transformation, has been the principal investigator for several research projects, and has acted as a consultant for private and public organisations regarding gender equality. Rebeca Maseda García is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is the author of Ensayo sobre la contracicción: Virginia Woolf en la pantalla, and she has published numerous articles on film and gender, representations of trauma, and historical memory.

“This multivocal collection offers a nuanced account of the social rituals of normalization that set the conditions of gender violence and make it possible, ‘ordinary,’ and ultimately silenced. In delving into the intricacies of normative gender violence, the book interrogates the discursive matrices of gender and violence, as well as of the entrenched construction of gender-and-violence, including female victimhood and the paternalistic snares of recognition. Locally grounded and self-consciously situated, it powerfully reconsiders the current critical field of gender violence/power and its epistemological premises by suggesting new feminist conceptions (at once theoretical and political) of transformative critique and responsibility.”—Athena Athanasiou, Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Studies, Panteion University, Greece; Co-author with Judith Butler of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political

• List of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – María José Gámez Fuentes/Rebeca Maseda García: The Configuration of Gender Violence: A Matrix to Be Reloaded – Ana de Miguel Álvarez: To Conceptualize Is to Politicize: Why Spain Has Acted as a Pioneer Regarding Gender Violence – Juana Gallego Ayala: In the Wake of Ana Orantes: For an Ethical Representation of Violence Against Women – Emma Gómez Nicolau: Silenced Voices: Prostitutes, Lesbians, and "Bad Women" in Spanish Public Policies on Gender Violence – Sonia Núñez Puente: Tactical Media and Activism Against Gender-Based Violence: Fetishization and Counterhegemonic Frameworks of Recognition – Laura Castillo Mateu: Feminist Activism and the Role of Memory in Revisiting the Discourse on Gender Violence in Spain – Lídia Puigvert/Cristina Pulido: Dialogues Among Diverse Women: Transforming Established Hegemonic Narratives in Associative Initiatives – Sarah Leggott: Narrative Representations of Gendered Violence and Women’s Resistance in Francoist Spain: Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida (2002) and Almudena Grandes’s Inés y la alegría (2010) – Marián López Fernández Cao/Juan Carlos Gauli: From The Rape of Europa to Art Against Gender Violence in Spanish Culture – Alfredo Martínez-Expósito: Homophobia, Ethical Witnessing, and the Matrix of Gendered Violence: Issues of Intersectionality in Luppi/Hornos’s Pasos – Vera Burgos-Hernández: Ella(s): Resisting Victimhood, Unveiling Institutional Violence in Docufiction – María Castejón Leorza/Rebeca Maseda García: Carmina o revienta and Carmina y amén: Female Transgressions of Victimhood in Spanish Popular Cinema – Rebeca Maseda García/María José Gámez Fuentes: No More Victims: Changing the Script – Contributors – Index.