Representing Gender-Based Violence

Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo is Lecturer in World Languages at University College Cork, Ireland, author of Rwanda after Genocide: Gender, Identity and Posttraumatic Growth (2018) and co-author of Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the next Generation (2022). She has published widely on the lives and experiences of survivors of violence.Dr Nicoletta Mandolini is Researcher at CECS-Universidade do Minho, Portugal, where she is working on a project on gender violence and its representation in comics and graphic novels. She is author of Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy between Journalism and Literature. Femminicidio Narratives (2021).

• 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Representation as Violence.- 2. Do the Media Make Sexual Violence ‘Congolese’? Phalloand Ethnocentrism in the International Coverage of Dr Mukwege’s Story.- 3. The Case of Norma Cossetto: A Femorevisionist Issue .- 4. Representing Human Trafficking as Gendered Violence: Doing Cultural Violence.- 5. Representing the ‘Comfort Women’: Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan.- 6. Acid Attacks in Italy: Gender-Based Violence, Victimhood, and Media Representation.- 7. Diagonal Truths: The Representation of Gender Violence in True Crime Podcasts—The Case of West Cork.- 8. Albinism and Gender-Based Violence in Women’s Writing from Southern Africa: Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing (2013) and Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory (2015).- 9. Transnational Feminist Interventions on Gender-Based Violence During the Bosnian War: Representational Dilemmas in Activism, Advocacy, and Art.- Part III Representative Re-Imaginings.- 10. Representing Gender-Based Violence in Spain: Performance Protest, the #Cuéntalo Movement, and Purple Friday.- 11. Gender, Violence, Populism and (Social) Media in Turkey.- 12. Mónica Mayer’s ‘El Tendedero’ Project: Forty Years of Feminist Art Framing Gender-Based Violence in Mexico.- 13. Topless in La Habana: Space, Pleasure, and Visibility in Ethically Representing Gender-Based Violence.