Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy
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Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy

Blaming Women in the Courts and the Press

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eBook - ePub

Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy

Blaming Women in the Courts and the Press

About this book

This volume illustrates and analyses the stereotypes and prejudices underlying the social representation of violence against women as it is narrated and described in Italy by the press and by court judgements.After a theoretical reflection on the role of culture and socialisation in reproducing the conditionsunderlying gender-based violence and its normalisation, and after reconstructingthe historical evolution of gender roles and the stages of women's condition, thebook presents the results of a sociological and of a socio-linguistic analysis on a vast corpus of 16, 715 newspaper articles published by fifteen Italiannewspapers on gender crimes (specifically: femicide; sexual violence; domestic violence; womentrafficking). The chapters analyze how national, macro-regional and localItalian press narrates violence against women but they also analyze a repertoire of 283 judicial sentences.The results show a clear tendency to redistribute the responsibilitiesof these crimes between the perpetrator and the victim, leading not only tosecondary victimization but also to tertiary victimization, affecting the quality ofItalian institutions as well as the democratic fiber of the nation.

The volume finally includes a compendium of the best and the worst practices found in the corpuses of sentences and newspapers' articles and a set of recommendations addressed to the institutional actors and journalists for a correct representation of gender-based violence, free from those stereotypes and prejudices that violate the dignity of male violence' victims and prevent them from accessing justice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. The STEP Project
  4. 2. Culture, Stereotypes, and Social Behaviour
  5. 3. The Condition of Women as a Consequence of the Historic, Economic, and Social Context
  6. 4. Three Times a Victim. An Overview of the Judicial and Journalistic Representation of Gender-Based Violence
  7. 5. The Research Method
  8. 6. The Words to Say It. Recounting Violence in the Judge’s Language
  9. 7. Gendered Court Decisions? The Juridical Representation of Violence Against Women
  10. 8. Male Violence Against Women in Journalistic Discourse
  11. 9. International Legal Sources
  12. Back Matter