Vol 5, No 1 (2020): Policies on Violence Against Women in a Comparative Perspective
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The Interplay between States and Movements on Violence Against Women. Comparative Perspectives in Sociology and Policy Analysis
(2020)In the last 25 years, women’s movements, governments and international bodies have been active in awareness-raising on and reduction of violence against women (VAW). The main aim of this issue is to providean overview of ... -
Do Gun Policies Really Protect Women? A Cross-national Test of the Relationship between Gun Regulations and Female Homicide Victimization
(2020)Globally, firearms are the most frequent means of committing homicide and young males are most likely to be victimized with guns. However, females’ risk of lethal gun violence rises significantly within the context of ... -
VAW Policy Regimes in Italy: An Analysis Across Regional Governments and Women's Centres
(2020)The paper analyses the consequences of bureaucratisation processes in the context of violence against women (VAW) policies in Italy. Specifically, the paper proposes an analysis of VAW policies in three Regions (namely, ... -
Institutional Abandonment of Minority Women in Israel Who Are Violence Victims
(2020)The obligation of the establishment to protecting women against violenceis non-consensus andis sometimes conceptualized as a struggle for women-human rights. The present article deals with domestic violence against women ... -
Finding Voice through Film Viewing: Tunisian Women Interpret Gendered Violence in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
(2020)This paper reports on a 2019 study about female perception of violence against women (VAW) in post-revolutionary Tunisia triggered by their viewing of the Tunisian film, The Beauty and the Dogs (La Belle et La Meute).The ... -
Transnationalism and Universalism of the Memory Tourism of the Great War
(2020)Thanks to the Centenary, a renewed interest has undoubtedly affected the landscapes of the memory of the First World War, moving away from the aims of past patriotic pilgrimages because it includes different perspectives. ... -
The Garden City and the American Dream
(2020)Howard’s Garden city tradition is central in American urban planning and it has had great influence, also in its interpretations that were most distant from the original utopian model, on the ways in which the American ... -
The Mediterranean Question: Thinking with the Diver
(2020)How and why to interrupt and redirect our understanding of the histories and cultures of the Mediterranean? As a result of temporal and spatial relations, its geographies and histories are never neutral. They are the outcome ... -
The Issue of Violence Against Women in Algeria: Causes and Public Policies
(2020)This contribution deals with the topic of: violence against women in Algeria: causes and public policies on violence against women. The violence against women in Algeria has represented a social phenomenon that affects ... -
Coping Italian Emergency COVID-19 through Smart Working: From Necessity to Opportunity
(2020)Smart working is defined as a new managerial philosophy characterized by higher flexibility and autonomy in the choice of working spaces, time and tools in return for more accountability on results.The health emergency ... -
Review of Mariella Nocenzi & Alessandra Sannella (eds.), Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability, Cham (Switzerland), Springer, 2020, pp. 123
(2020)Review of the collective book Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability, recently edited by Mariella Nocenzi and Alessandra Sannella.
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