Social and political issues, including international ones, are addressed in the Sanremo Festival, thus contributing to the construction or social emergence of a theme. In its historical evolution, it represents a mirror ...

Drawing on a reflection on Islam and Muslims in Italy, and adopting a gendered perspective, the essay provides a contribution to the analysis of media representations of Islam. Examining the way Islam is represented in the ...

The recent feminist uprisings in Iran and the attempt at parity democracy in the Iraqi enclave of the Ezidis raise a question that feminist reflection periodically confronts itself with: can feminism be considered a ...

The relationship between law and language is a classic topos of reflection on society. A large part of legal science, not surprisingly, has explicitly supported an integral reduction of law to language: different choices ...

Broad or inclusive language has reached the attention of media and public debate during the last decades. In Italy, the publication by Alma Sabatini “Raccomandazioni per un uso non sessista della lingua italiana” was an ...

Violence against women is recognized as a social fact, which has always been important in sociological studies, social policies and social workers. Above all, it is identified as a factor linked to cultural and social ...

The nouns referring to women in professions or occupations offer an interesting field to analyse the linguistic representation of women, including both the sociolinguistic reflections that can be found there and the changes ...

The use of gender stereotypes is an obstacle to a full equality and causes forms of genderbased violence. In the courtrooms, although gender sensitive judicial interpretations are now spreading, there are decisions in ...

Moving from the etymological examination and lexicographic history of rape, the aim of this paper is to read and understand the socio-cultural stigma of sexual abuse victims in the collective imagination. The purpose of ...

This paper analyses the effects of domestic violence on the educational advancement of indigenous Maya girls living in rural areas in Yucatan, southeast Mexico, during the COVID19 pandemic. This research used a variety of ...