Gender and violence: Tools to think with

Abstract

This chapter explains the organization of the Handbook into three discrete but overlapping sections: Concepts, representations, and contexts. The chapters in the section on concepts elaborate on the tools we use to think with in our work on gender and violence (not only the concepts of gender and violence but related concepts like sex, sexualities, patriarchy, and security). The section on representation includes chapters on the different ways in which gender and violence are constituted in and through various representational practices, including film, policy, and online. Finally, the section on contexts is devoted to the examination of gender and violence in various different empirical settings, including different spheres of activity, from economic to juridical. This chapter provides a brief overview of the work in each section and draws out some thematic connections across the collection.