Sexualities, Gender and Violence: A View from the Iberian Peninsula

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Cristina Pereira Vieira (Editor)

Series: Human Rights: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
BISAC: SOC060000

The eleven essays and the introduction included in this collection offer an interdisciplinary reflection on the multifarious intersections of sexuality and gender-based norms in Southern Europe. They offer varied insights on the different negotiations of gender and sexuality and their connections to different forms of violence in the Iberian Peninsula. Empirically rich and theoretically challenging, the different chapters tackle topics such as the configuration of relationships, digital intimacies, sexual violence and harassment and sex education. The first part explores the current configurations of sexuality, gender and violence attending to traditional meanings and also to new debates on these issues. The second part explores current masculinities in relation to different forms of violence. This collection is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the relations between sex, gender and violence in the contemporary moment.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Reconfiguring Sexuality, Gender and Violence: Old and New Debates

Chapter 1. Gender, Sexuality and Affects: Current Becomings
(Begonya Enguix Grau, PhD, Department of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/MEDUSA Research Group, Barcelona, Spain)

Chapter 2. Loving No-Body: Polyamorous Thoughts on Romantic Love and Widowhood
(David Berga Molina, Department of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

Chapter 3. Deterritorialising the Modern Girl in Netflix’s Cable Girls©: A Figuration both from and for Spanish Feminism
(Sabrina Vaquerizo-González, Department of Arts and Humanities/MEDUSA Research Group, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

Chapter 4. Minors’ Absences, Major Offences: Grindr and Minors’ Sexuality
(Erick G. Gómez Narváez, Department of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [UOC], Barcelona, Spain)

Chapter 5. Unveiling Silence and Pressures in the Messages of School Sex Education: A Path towards More Egalitarian and Democratic Relationships
(Sofia Almeida Santos and Eunice Macedo, Centre for Research and Intervention in Education [CIIE], Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal)

Part 2: Exploring Masculinities, Silences and Other Forms of Violence

Chapter 6. Portuguese Youth’s Discourses on Masculinity: Broken Silences
(Cristina Pereira Vieira, Department of Social Sciences and Management, Open University [UAb], Portugal, and others)

Chapter 7. Men behind the Mask: The Epistemology of Difference
(Luís Santos, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and Behavior, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal)

Chapter 8. The Portuguese Observatory of Dating Violence: Reflections on the Potential of Informal Reporting
(Sofia Neves, Ariana Correia, Mafalda Ferreira, Joana Topa, Janete Borges, Ana Luísa Abreu, and Estefânia Silva, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University Institute of Maia, Maia, Portugal, and others)

Chapter 9. Sexualised Violence against Boys in Spain
(Paco Abril, Rafa Soto and Pedro Unamunzaga, Department of Pedagogy, Universitat de Girona-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC-MEDUSA Research Group, Barcelona, Spain, and others)

Chapter 10. The Male Savage Mind: Violent Male Interrelationships, from Casual to Daily Occurrences
(Juan A. Rodríguez del Pino, PhD, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain)

Chapter 11. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in Portugal
(Dália Costa, Anália Torres and Bernardo Coelho, CIEG/ISCSP, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, and others)

Index

Reviews

“The eleven essays included in Enguix and Vieira’s must-read collection offer a much needed interdisciplinary reflection on the multifarious intersections of sexuality and gender-based norms in Southern Europe with the topic of violence, providing massive food for thought both within and beyond academia.” -Ana Cristina Santos, Senior Researcher in Gender and Queer Studies, Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

“A fascinating collection, offering an exciting and thought-provoking journey through many – new and familiar – sites of negotiation of gender and sexuality in the Iberian Peninsula. Empirically rich, theoretically challenging, and critically engaged, this book is a powerful reminder of how personal and political, how pleasurable and violent, how material and elusive, gender and sexuality can be.” -Maria do Mar Pereira, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

“Begonya Enguix Grau and Cristina Pereira Vieira’s edited collection, Sexualities, Gender and Violence: A View from the Iberian Peninsula, provides an overdue and much needed survey of contemporary gender research across Spain and Portugal. This excellent collection, tackling topics such as the configuration of relationships, digital intimacies, sexual violence and harassment and sex education charts issues of concern that speak to a set of interests that animate debate across gender research at an international level. The collection is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the relations between sex, gender and violence in the contemporary moment.” -John Mercer, Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom

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