The book titled “Gender and Violence,” prepared as an activity of the Gender Studies Application and Research Center (TCCUAM) at Istanbul Gelisim University, has been published.
The study approaches the concept of gender within the context of social sciences, considering it as a constitutive force that shapes individuals’ social roles and identities. While the complex nature of social structures often renders inequalities, discrimination, and forms of violence invisible, patriarchal systems align masculinity with power and authority, and femininity with obedience, self-sacrifice, emotionality, and docility.
It is emphasized that these unequal power relations give rise to physical, sexual, psychological, economic, and symbolic forms of violence, while also producing destructive effects on individuals’ physical and mental well-being through stigmatization, denial, and silencing. The text draws attention to how the normalization of violence in everyday life deepens social problems.
The book “Gender and Violence” centers on exclusionary and controlling sexist discourses—one of the major obstacles to gender equality—and examines the heteronormative and patriarchal forms of violence produced by these discourses from a multidimensional perspective. It highlights that violence manifests not only in physical forms but also in economic, psychological, sexual, political, and digital dimensions, as well as in structural, cultural, colonial/postcolonial, and aesthetic forms.
The study argues that the relationship between gender and violence should be reconsidered not only within sociology but also across disciplines such as media studies, philosophy, ethics, law, economics, politics, anthropology, psychology, social work, and information technologies. In this context, the book critically engages with the phenomenon of “gendered violence.”
Prepared with contributions from scholars across various disciplines, the volume aims to examine gender-based violence from a comprehensive perspective. Covering a wide range of topics—from theoretical frameworks to family relations, media representations to legal processes, literary analyses to spatial constraints—the book analyzes both visible and hidden forms of violence and invites readers to reflect on gender inequality through an interdisciplinary lens.
