Representing Gender-Based Violence

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Do the Media Make Sexual Violence ‘Congolese’? Phallo- and Ethnocentrism in the International Coverage of Dr Mukwege’s Story

Chapter 3 The Case of Norma Cossetto: A Femorevisionist Issue

Chapter 4 Representing Human Trafficking as Gendered Violence: Doing Cultural Violence

Chapter 5 Representing the ‘Comfort Women’: Omissions and Denials in Wartime Historiographies in Japan

Chapter 6 Acid Attacks in Italy: Gender-Based Violence, Victimhood, and Media Representation

Chapter 7 Diagonal Truths: The Representation of Gender Violence in True Crime Podcasts—The Case of West Cork

Chapter 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)

Chapter 9 Transnational Feminist Interventions on Gender-Based Violence During the Bosnian War: Representational Dilemmas in Activism, Advocacy, and Art

Chapter 10 Representing Gender-Based Violence in Spain: Performance Protest, the #Cuéntalo Movement, and Purple Friday

Chapter 12 Mónica Mayer’s ‘El Tendedero’ Project: Forty Years of Feminist Art Framing Gender-Based Violence in Mexico

Chapter 13 Topless in La Habana: Space, Pleasure, and Visibility in Ethically Representing Gender-Based Violence