Re-writing Women as Victims

Maria José Gámez Fuentes is Full Professor in Gender and Media at the Universitat Jaume I. Her research focuses on feminist theory, the analysis of gender representations and the transformation of cultural violence. This has been developed through several stays at the University of Nottingham; Goldsmiths, the University of London; the University of Roehampton; and Columbia University, among others. She has also led R+D projects on the resignification of women as victims and ethical witnessing. She has published extensively in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Social Movement Studies, International Journal of Iberian Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Cineaste, and Peace Review. Sonia Núñez Puente is Associate Professor in Gender and Media at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. She has led national and international projects on feminist digital activism, gender-based violence and the image of women in the area of cultural studies. Together with the writer Lucía Etxebarria, she is co-author of En brazos de la mujer fetiche (2002). She has been a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and a lecturer at Vanderbilt University (USA). She has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Humboldt zu Berlin (Germany), among others. She has published in journals such as Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Feminist Review, Journal of European Women’s Studies and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.Emma Gómez Nicolau is Assistant Professor in Methodology and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I. She is a member of REMUVIC Project Modes and practices of resignification of women as victims: from vulnerability to resistance. She is also member of DESiRES (Sociology and Methodology studies of Inequalities and Resistances). She has been a predoctoral fellow at the University of Valencia, Spain, and a visiting scholar at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (Cardiff University). Her research interests are feminisms, menstrual and health activism and youth studies. She has published several articles and book chapters on the modes of recognition of gender violence.

• 1 Reframing women’s victimization: Challenges and possibilities, Part I Politics, 2 Women Survivors of sexist abuse in Spain: The role of affects of proximity and recognition on the way out, 3 The ‘comfort women’ apologies: Gender victimhood and the politics of grievability, 4 Gender, agency and the construction of a rape victim: The ICTY and the prosecution of sexual violence in Bosnia-Hercegovina, 5 Women’s resistance in violent settings: Infrapolitical strategies in Brazil and Colombia, 6 Towards transformative gender equality: The importance of addressing economic violence against women in Cambodia, Part II: Activism, 7 Feminist and grassroots activism rewriting women as victims: Kenyan women’s untold story, 8 Collective action and organization against gender violence in Spain: When victims became activists, 9 Transnational feminist activism to reframe femicide: The case of #NiuNaMenos and #VivasNosQueremos, 10 Materialising resistance against rape culture online: The phenomenon of SlutWalks, 11 Mukhtaran Mai’s transformation from gang-rape victim to the feminist face of glamour: Transcending notions of tribal honour, gender and class in Pakistan, Part III: Cultural narratives, 12 ‘Pump up the positivity’: Neoliberalism, affective entrepreneurship and the victimhood/agency debate, 13 Radical vulnerability: Feminism, victimhood and agency, 14 Rethinking the victim in Zoë Morrison’s Music and Freedom (2016), 15 Survivor speech: Formulations of the victim/survivor identity in contemporary UK media, 16 Rape victims, representation and resistance in India: Between collectivity and solitariness