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An anthology of feminist perspectives combining arts-based interventions with scholarship, activism, testimony, and lived experience to address contemporary gendered violence.

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At a time when gendered violence is intensifying, and even the language and mechanisms for addressing it are being constrained, this timely anthology foregrounds creative, critical, collective, and transnational responses built from the ground up. With a diverse group of contributors—artists, activists, scholars, and community organisers—the collection illuminates violence as legal and institutional, intimate and structural, historical and contemporary, visible and painfully ordinary. Through art, song, performance, archives, and digital practices, it renders legible forms of harm that are often marginalised or silenced in formal policy and legal discourse. In doing so, the collection questions what counts as justice and expands our repertoires of resistance precisely at a moment when such expansion is most needed. t highlights feminist collaboration across borders as a crucial resource for understanding and challenging violence in the present.

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At a time when gendered violence is intensifying, and even the language and mechanisms for addressing it are being constrained, this timely anthology foregrounds creative, critical, collective, and transnational responses built from the ground up. Across essays, artworks, testimonies, and reflections by a diverse group of contributors—artists, activists, scholars, and community organisers—the collection illuminates violence as legal and institutional, intimate and structural, historical and contemporary, visible and painfully ordinary. Through art, song, performance, archives, and digital practices, it renders legible forms of harm that are often marginalised or silenced in formal policy and legal discourse. In doing so, the collection redefines what counts as evidence, resistance, and justice precisely at a moment when such expansion is most needed. Going beyond documentation, it invites readers to think urgently and expansively about how gendered violence is locally named, remembered, resisted, and transformed. Offering both insight and inspiration, it highlights feminist collaboration across borders as a crucial resource for understanding and challenging violence in the present.

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Hemangini Gupta is Senior Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Fiona Mackay is Professor Emerita of Politics and founding director of the interdisciplinary hub, GENDER.ED, at the University of Edinburgh. Jan Breckenridge is Professor and Head of the School of Social Sciences and the Co-Convener of the UNSW Gendered Violence Research Network, UNSW. Louise Chappell is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, where she is also the director of the Australian Human Rights Institute. Rachna Mehra is Assistant Professor in the Urban Studies Programme at Ambedkar University, Delhi. Rukmini Sen is Professor of Sociology at Ambedkar University, Delhi. Mailin Suchting is Manager of the Gendered Violence Research Network (GVRN), UNSW Sydney.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: “In Darkness We Find Light”: Creative Responses to Violence Chapter 1. South Africa’s Blue Dress: Art as an Alternative Record of Gendered Violence Eliza Garnsey Chapter 2. Textile Testimonies Lydia C. Cole Chapter 3. On Cultural Memories of Collective Violence Maria Alina Asavei Chapter 4. I Never Ask For It: Building Testimonials of Clothing to End Victim Blame. Listening to Blank Noise Jasmeen Patheja Chapter 5. Fursat ki Fizayen: A Reclamation of Space, Rights and Aspirations Divya Chopra and Rwitee Mandal Chapter 6. Statues and Status: Mexican Feminist Collectives Change the Face of History to Combat Gendered Violence Today Sarah Easy Chapter 7. The Stories We Remember and The Songs We Sing: Scottish Ballads of Gendered Violence and Resistance Karine Polwart Chapter 8. Voices of Resistance: Women’s Folksongs and Response to Domestic Violence Garima Singh Chapter 9. We Can’t Breathe María Adela Díaz Chapter 10. Art as Resistance in the Face of Hate Jo Clifford Chapter 11. In Darkness We Find Light Maša Hilčišin Part II: Activist Movements for Change Chapter 12. Can’t or Won’t? The Difficulties of Changing Systems in Institutions Amy Life and Sharessa Naidoo Chapter 13. Witches of Scotland: A Campaign to Right Historic Wrongs Claire Mitchell KC and Zoe Venditozzi Chapter 14. Taking Transformative Action on Sexual Violence in Universities Anna Hush Chapter 15. Harnessing Community Power: The #erasethegrey Campaign Lesley McMillan Chapter 16. Social Action in the 80s—Has Anything Changed? Jan Breckenridge and Mailin Suchting Chapter 17. Playing Politics to Get Sex Workers’ Rights on the Agenda Ishtar Lakhani Chapter 18. Technologising Rape and Sexual Assault: Can We Really Innovate the Problem Away? Lesley McMillan and Deborah White Chapter 19. Hostile Environments Lucy Lowe Chapter 20. #MeToo India: Why Are Survivors Turning to Online Spaces for Justice? Adrija Dey Chapter 21. Our “Chak De” Moments Lora Prabhu Chapter 22. “Bad Girls,” Everyday Sexism and Activist Campaigns in Millennial India Radhika Govinda Chapter 23. #Hear Me Too: A Celebration of Children and Young People’s Activism Claire Houghton Chapter 24. Democracy’s Promise Unfulfilled While Violence Against Women in Politics Persists Gabrielle Bardall Chapter 25. Invisible Impact: The Sikh Women’s Alliance Twenty Years On Zubin Mistry and Balvinder Kaur Saund Chapter 26. Where It All Began: The Story of Elsie Women’s Refuge Anne Summers Part III: Accounting for Gendered Violence Chapter 27. I Am a Feminist: These Are the Things I Struggle With Catherine Donovan Chapter 28. Truth Tales: Gendering the Violence of Displacement Urvashi Butalia Chapter 29. Does She Have a Voice? Do We Hear Her? The Silencing of Indigenous Women and Girls Kyllie Cripps Chapter 30. Migration and Violence: The Question of Transmasculine Persons in India Sutanuka Bhattacharya and Bindu K.C. Chapter 31. Myth, Reality and Amorous Dissonance Before and After India’s Partition Rachna Mehra Chapter 32. Violence in the Archives: Curating the Past Without Perpetrating Harm Kirsty M. Stewart Chapter 33. Confronting Gendered Violence in Ancient Rome: The Sexual Violation of Pubescent Boys Ulrike Roth Chapter 34. I Sing of Arms and the Woman: The Mythic Heroine Reclaimed? Hazel Atkinson Chapter 35. Witch-branding in Eastern India Mayur Suresh Chapter 36. From “Battered Wives” to “Coercive Control”: Domestic Abuse in Late Twentieth Century Scotland Anni Donaldson Chapter 37. Returning to a Violent Home Rukmini Sen Chapter 38. Sexual Consent: Nodding Your Head but Meaning No Ngozi Anyadike-Danes Chapter 39. Abusive Language and Violence Against Women in the Public Sphere Jennifer M. Piscopo Chapter 40. First Nations Women’s Lived Experiences of Gendered Violence: History Matters and Cultural Safety is Essential Mareese Terare and Rowena Lawrie Part IV: Reimagining Justice as a Collective Endeavour Chapter 41. When the Law Against Violence becomes Violent Rachana Johri, Bindu K.C. and Krishna Menon Chapter 42. Towards a Just Conclusion: A Prosecutor’s Perspective on Tackling Domestic Abuse in Scotland Anne Marie Hicks Chapter 43. “Slow Activism” to Address Gender-based Violence in Higher Education: Research and Campaigning from The 1752 Group Anna Bull Chapter 44. To Speak/To Complain: Reflections on Indian Feminist Politics in the Moment of #MeToo and LoSHA Rukmini Sen Chapter 45. No Justice Without Healing; No Healing Without Justice Clayton Boeyink, Mohamed A Ali-Salad, Esther Wanyema Baruti, Ahmed S. Bile, Jean-Benoît Falisse, Leonard Muzee Kazamwali, Said A. Mohamoud, Henry Ngongo Muganza, Denise Mapendo Mukwege, and Amina Jama Mahmud Chapter 46. The Courts of Women Corrine Kumar Chapter 47. Can Victim-Survivors of Violent Crimes Find Justice through True Crime Podcasts? Lili Pâquet Chapter 48. Bringing Back Hope Maha Krayem Abdo Chapter 49. Dowry Abuse and Exit Trafficking in the Transnational Context Sara Singh and Manjula O’Connor Chapter 50. “It’s Not Just the War that Displaces these People”: Care and Containment in Displacement Contexts Rina Ghafoerkhan, Elise Griede, Laura Jeffery, Lucy Lowe, and David Nieuwe Weme Chapter 51. Three Decades of Struggle: Academics and Refugee Women Working Together Linda Bartolomei and Eileen Pittaway Chapter 52. The Human Rights Necklace Masuma Tavakoli Chapter 53. LGBT+ Rights in War and Peace Christine Bell Chapter 54. Women’s Right to Physical Security in the Pacific Region Nicole George Chapter 55. Illuminating the Links Between Genocide and Gendered Violence Rosemary Grey Epilogue

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