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Aesthetics in Distress: Gender-Based Violence and Visual Culture. Introductory Note

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Gender-Based ViolenceGender-based violence, a social issue that involves acts of physical, sexual, and/or psychological abuse exercised towards a subject based on her/his/their gender (Boyle, 2019a, pp.23-25), remains one of the most long-standing and challenging problems of our times.From intimate partner violence to street harassment, from labour exploitation and precarity to workplace mobbing, from disenfranchisement to criminalisation, gender-based violence is a "continuum" (Kelly, 1987).It refers not only to embodied violence but also to political, legal and economic violence perpetrated against women, girls and those whose gender does not comply with the binary categories of heteropatriarchal norms, which might extend to men and boys.Such violence, mostly deriving from hegemonic Ward, J., & Shortt, H. (Eds.).(2020).Using arts-based research methods: Creative approaches to research business, organization and humanities.

Source: Vista

DOI: 10.21814/vista.4071

Authors: Ece Canlı, Nicoletta Mandolini

Institutions: Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, University of Minho

Language: English

Topic: Visual Culture and Art Theory

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia