Call for Abstracts for Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik: vergeschlechtlichte Gewalt

Around the world, women in particular, but also other groups of people, especially those who have been marginalized several times, are affected by gender-based violence. A Europe-wide study from 2014 (FRA) shows that at least one in five women has experienced sexual and physical violence since the age of 15. The highest form of violence against women is "femi(ni)cide", i.e. the violent killing of women because of their gender. However, gender-based violence does not affect all women equally. Women without their own home, women with disabilities, and sex workers - to name just a few examples - are at an increased risk of experiencing violence. Other groups of people also have an increased risk of experiencing gender-based violence in their lives due to their social position in society. For example, intersex people have been and continue to be surgically assigned to the male or female sex, trans* people are increasingly affected by symbolic, institutional, physical and psychological violence due to their gender, and male-male violence is also anchored in the structure and system of patriarchy.

Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik would like to dedicate a special issue to the topic of gender-based violence. Speicifcally, it wishes to focus on forms of violence, the people affected by violence, and/or the professional (state) actors that have so far gone unnoticed or been under addressed in research and have not been given enough of a voice in public. Contributions may shed light on the (social) emergence of gender-based violence against people/groups of people or its effects, or ask about the psychological mechanisms of gender-based violence or its social conditions. Most importantly, contributions should think about social, societal, political, and psychological contexts.

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