[ecrea] New Book: Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture

New Book:/.Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture./ /From Vulnerability 
to Accountability /(Peter Lang). Editors María José Gámez Fuentes 
(Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and Rebeca Maseda García (University of 
Alaska Anchorage) –https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79959?format=EPDF

We are delighted to share with you the first comprehensive study in 
English language on the politics of configuration of gender violence in 
Spain. The chapters analyse the complex intersections between cultural 
representations (in media, art, film, press, internet, etc.), civil 
society, activism, state discourse and theory. Thus, the volume, on the 
one hand, enables to trace the chiaroscuros of how the issue has been 
framed (by the media and the state) in a country such as Spain (praised 
in the 2010 UN Handbook for Legislation on Violence Against Women for 
its advanced approach), and, on the other, offers a nuanced panorama of 
representational initiatives that subvert the normative framework of 
recognition of victims. As a result, the reader can find perspectives 
that re-signify vulnerability and frame accountability within the 
representational tradition, the community, and the state.

*Contents:*

The Configuration of Gender Violence: A Matrix to Be Re-Loaded, María 
José Gámez Fuentes and Rebeca Maseda García

Part One: THEORY AND POLITICS

Chapter 1: To Conceptualize Is to Politicize: Why Spain Has Acted as 
Pioneer Regarding “Gender Violence”, Ana de Miguel Álvarez

Chapter 2: In the Wake of Ana Orantes. For an Ethical Representation of 
Violence Against Women, Juana Gallego

Chapter 3: Silenced Voices: Prostitutes, Lesbians and “Bad Women” in 
Spanish Public Policies on Gender Violence, Emma Gómez Nicolau

Part Two: ACTIVISM AND ASSOCIATIONS

Chapter 4: Tactical Media and Activism Against Gender-Based Violence: 
Fetishization and Counterhegemonic Frameworks of Recognition, Sonia 
Núñez Puente

Chapter 5: Feminist Activism and the Role of Memory in Revisiting the 
Discourse on Gender Violence in Spain, Laura Castillo Mateu

Chapter 6: Dialogues Among Diverse Women: Transforming Established 
Hegemonic Narratives in Associative Initiatives, Lídia Puigvert and 
Cristina Pulido

Part Three: CULTURAL PRODUCTION

Chapter 7: Narrative Representations of Gendered Violence and Women’s 
Resistance in Francoist Spain: Dulce Chacón’s /La voz dormida/ (2002) 
and Almudena Grandes’s/Inés y la alegría/ (2010), Sarah Leggott

Chapter 8: From the /Rape of Europa/ to Art Against Gender Violence in 
Spanish Culture, Marián López Fernández Cao and Juan Carlos Gauli Pérez

Chapter 9: Homophobia, Ethical Witnessing and the Matrix of Gendered 
Violence: Issues of Intersectionality in Luppi/Hornos’s /Pasos/, Alfredo 
Martinez-Expósito

Chapter 10: /Ella(s)/: Resisting Victimhood, Unveiling Institutional 
Violence in Docufiction, Vera Burgos-Hernández

Chapter 11: /Carmina o revienta/and /Carmina y amen/: Female 
Transgressions of Victimhood in Spanish Popular Cinema, María Castejón 
Leorza and Rebeca Maseda García


No more Victims: Changing the Script, Rebeca Maseda García and María 
José Gámez Fuentes

*Advance praise for **/Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture/* 
<https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79959>

—Athena Athanasiou, Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Studies, 
Panteion University, Greece; Co-author with Judith Butler of 
/Dispossession: The Performative in the Political/

  “This multivocal collection offers a nuanced account of the social 
rituals of normalization that set the conditions of gender violence and 
make it possible, ‘ordinary,’ and ultimately silenced. In delving into 
the intricacies of normative gender violence, the book interrogates the 
discursive matrices of gender and violence, as well as of the entrenched 
construction of gender-and-violence, including female victimhood and the 
paternalistic snares of recognition. Locally grounded and 
self-consciously situated, it powerfully reconsiders the current 
critical field of gender violence/power and its epistemological premises 
by suggesting new feminist conceptions (at once theoretical and 
political) of transformative critique and responsibility.”

—Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Manchester, 
United Kingdom; Member of the Editorial Collective of the Journal of 
Spanish Cultural Studies and of the Editorial Boards of the Bulletin of 
Hispanic Studies, Studies in Spanish & Latin American 
Cinemas and Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures

  “This collection builds an arresting account of the configuration of 
gender violence in modern Spanish contexts, but it also proposes a 
conceptual reconfiguration. Gender violence and reactions to it are 
opened up from a series of disciplinary perspectives, acutely drawn 
together by the editors in an exemplary introduction. Activism, 
creativity, genuinely critical theory, and a progressive, often queered 
feminist politics traverse the collection. With the majority of the 
research originally conducted through the medium of Spanish and focusing 
on crucial case studies and sites of resistance in Spain, the collection 
brings to the English-speaking scholarly world new and exceptionally 
significant material that would otherwise be less well known.”

  Thank you.

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