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Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy: Blaming Women in the Courts and the Press

Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy: Blaming Women in the Courts and the Press

Saccà, Flaminia

Hardcover

Series: Gender and Politics

General Gender StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 303159830X
ISBN13: 9783031598302
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 1 2024
Pages: 249
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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 conditions underlying gender-based violence and its normalisation, and after reconstructing the historical evolution of gender roles and the stages of women's condition, the book presents the results of a sociological and of a socio-linguistic analysis on a vast corpus of 16,715 newspaper articles published by fifteen Italian newspapers on gender crimes (specifically: femicide; sexual violence; domestic violence; women trafficking) . The chapters analyze how national, macro-regional and local Italian press narrates violence against women but they also analyze a repertoire of 283 judicial sentences. The results show a clear tendency to redistribute the responsibilities of these crimes between the perpetrator and the victim, leading not only to secondary victimization but also to tertiary victimization, affecting the quality of Italian institutions as well as the democratic fiber of the nation.

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