Women and Violence: Politics and Gender in the Twilight of Modernity

Physical and symbolic violence against women is not an aspect of the pre-modern world destined to disappear with “progress”. On the contrary, it is a constitutive element of modern politics, to be analysed in its multi-faceted complexity.

Structures of Power, Violence and the Construction of Gender
Franca Bimbi, University of Padua
Marina Calloni, University of Milan-Bicocca
Gaia Tomaselli, Artemisia
Elena di Padova, Non una di meno (Niunamenos campaign)

Gender Based Violence in Political Conflicts: The Case of Genocide in Bosnia
Gorana Ognjenovich, University of Oslo
Jasna Jozelich, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

Violence, Gender and Religion
Debora Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
IllhamAllah Chiara Ferrero, General Secretary of the Islamic Religious Community in Italy
Marisa Trythall, Georgetown University

As part of the Picturing Women series.