This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "proximity violence".
The first type of violence is exercised in multiple situations and in the generality of relationships experienced by people involving others who are both strangers to and intimate with each other. Proximity violence provides and includes a fiduciary kind of "proximity", of "dependent intimacy", where the trust that the victim places in the other (her tormentor) favours the exercise of violence itself, allowing it to take place, thus making it practically imperceptible when not actually normal, in extreme cases.
In turn, this confidence is comparable to "a veil of Maja" which, in conditions of vulnerability typical of victims, attenuates the consequences of the violence undergone or the omens of what becomes violent action.
The conceptual triad: proximity violence, vulnerability, resistance-resilience is explored here, in the three main chapters and in the details aimed at identifying, in the final chapter, the mutual interconnections.
This book will be of particular interest and use to undergraduate and graduate students of sociology and gender studies
Author(s): Ignazia Bartholini
Publisher: Springer International
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 122
City: Cham
Preface
References
Contents
Chapter 1: Violence and Proximity Violence: Links and Interpretative Developments
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Domination Over and Segregation of the Female Body
1.3 Dehumanization, Objectification, and Reification of the Migrant Woman’s Body
1.4 The Opaque Connections Between “Violence Against Women” and “Gender Violence”
1.5 Proximity Violence, Bodies, and Emotions
1.6 The Ritual of Proximity Violence
1.7 Proximity Violence Versus Proximity Vulnerability
References
Chapter 2: Deception and Abuse: Manifold Instances of Proximity Violence Against Sub-Saharan Women
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Mechanisms of Proximity Violence
2.3 From Patriarchy to Proximity Domination
2.4 Research Carried Out Among Migrant Women Hosted in Shelters and in the Ballarò Neighbourhood
2.4.1 Marginal Notes on the Research “Method”
2.4.2 Ghana, Foluke, and Aziza
2.4.2.1 Ghana and Her Abuse-Ridden Journey
2.4.2.2 Foluke and a Post-journey Scam
2.4.2.3 Aziza and the Domestic Violence of a Forced Marriage
2.4.3 Accessory Nodes: Evidence of Female Subordination and the “Perfect” Marriage
2.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Human Trafficking: The Viscous Link Between Vulnerability and Proximity Violence
3.1 The Opaque Contours of Consent in Human Trafficking
3.2 Vulnerability and Proximity Violence
3.2.1 Vulnerability
3.2.2 Proximity Violence
3.3 The Framework Regulating the Concept of Vulnerability in Italy and Rumania
3.4 A Reading of Some Rulings of the Italian and Romanian Supreme Courts
3.4.1 Some Methodological Considerations
3.4.2 An Analysis of Some Rulings Pronounced by Italian and Romanian Courts of Penal Law
3.5 Final Consideration
References
RULINGS Regarding Human Trafficking Passed by the Rumanian Supreme Court
RULINGS Regarding Human Trafficking Passed by the Italian Supreme Court
Chapter 4: Nostalgia and Proximity Violence: Daily Life and Regressive Mestizament
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Economic Links and Behavioural Consequences
4.3 Violence and Retrospective Interpretation of Violence
4.4 The Research
4.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Violence Through Words: Cultural Aspects and Performative Agency
5.1 A Preamble
5.2 Discourse and the Mediterranean Context
5.3 Agency and the Euphemization Process as Social Practice
5.4 Camilleri’s Vocabulary: A Late Modern Mirror of the Mediterranean Representation of Women
5.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: European Mediterranean Women and the “Showdown” Between Public Emancipation and Private Self-oppression
6.1 Public Discourse and Mediterraneanness in Europe
6.2 A Late Unfinished Modernity Amid Postmodernist Thrusts and Mediterranean Heritage
6.3 Public Emancipation and Private Oppression
6.4 Women’s Amphibiotic Habitat
6.5 Corrosive Capacities and Disadvantages
6.6 Conclusions
References
Conclusions: The Violence Trap
Reference
Index
