AG About Gender - International Journal of Gender Studies

About the Journal

About Gender is an international, open-access, and peer-reviewed journal that welcomes contributions from all disciplines that use a conscious and articulate gender perspective in theoretical and empirical analysis.

The journal has a semi-annual issue and publishes original articles in English, Italian, and Spanish, with a theoretical and empirical focus.

Current Issue

Vol. 14 No. 28 (2025): Genders, crime and criminal justice

Published: 2026-02-12

Editorial

Genders, crime and criminal justice: Power, victimization and institutional harm

Sandra Sicurella, Cirus Rinaldi
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Thematic Articles

Whose Responsibility is it? Secondary Victimization in the Italian Press Representation of Intimate Partner Violence

Flaminia Saccà, Maddalena Carbonari
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Is a good woman hard to find? Conceptions of victim and stereotypes in judicial intimate partner violence cases

Madalena Duarte
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Femicide as an extreme crime: Judicial framing narratives

Pina Lalli, Maria (Milli) Virgilio
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Surviving the blame: Resisting secondary victimization in trials for male violence against women

Enrico Caniglia, Selena Mariano
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Criminal law approaches to combatting sexist hate speech in Spain

Beatriz Souto Galván
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Virgin or not, and dishonest? The treatment of female victims of sexual violence within the Brazilian criminal justice system (1890-1930)

Ana Paula Zappellini Sassi
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Unpacking feminist understandings of abolitionism in responding to gender-based violence: Theoretical insights towards a new framework

Olivia (Olli) Burchietti
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A needed encounter: Relational justice as an intersection between abolitionism and gender

Ludovica Cherubini Scarafoni
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Sewing the tear An analysis of the application of the restorative justice model to hate crimes against the LGBTQIA+ community in Italy

Arianna Bertan, Giulia Galesso
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Practicing Dorothy Smith’s feminist alternative sociology in the criminal justice system: A case study

Morena Tartari
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Women, criminal power, and violence: The case of the Casamonica Clan

Sabrina Garofalo, Ilaria Meli
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Gendered justice and symbolic power: A qualitative analysis of the criminal law assessment practice of human trafficking in German criminal proceedings

Ruth Sapelza
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Constructing radicalisation, gender, and free will: An analysis of SIAC decision in the Shamima Begum case

Giorgia Baldi
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When gender kills: Russell’s conceptualization of femicide and its empirical analysis in Italy

Nicoletta Sciarrino, Lorenzo Todesco
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Perception of risks and tools for fighting violence against women

Monya Ferritti, Emiliano Mandrone, Marianna Cucci
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Emotions and gender identity in detention A performative analysis of the experience of transgender women at Rebibbia Nuovo Complesso

Samuele Briatore
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Health care in correctional settings: The health needs of women prisoners

Chiara Morganti
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Women public prosecutors working in the antimafia sector Challenges within a high demand context

Ombretta Ingrascì
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Legal blind spots: The challenges of recognizing and addressing Intimate Partner Violence in LGBT communities within the legal system

Elisa Begnis, Simone Tuzza, Martina Lo Cascio
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Women victims of trafficking: Forced criminality and the criminal justice system’s failure to recognize agency, victimization, and exploitation

Ilaria Boiano
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Open Section

From childbirth as an event to childbirth as an experience The “embodied motherhood penalty” as a new perspective in fertility studies

Alessandra Minello
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Experiences and perspectives of emancipation and leadership of Roma and Sinti women

Monica Andriolo
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Chinese migrant women: gender roles between work and care

Qi An
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Children’s rights from a gender and sexuality perspective: A scoping review

Simone Colli Vignarelli
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Health centers Memory and legacies of a feminist practice

Anastasia Barone
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Annexes

Voci silenziate nelle imputazioni di femminicidio nello Stato del Paraná (2015-2020): contributi per uno sguardo decoloniale sul sistema di giustizia penale

Clara Maria Roman Borges, Ana Cláudia da Silva Abreu; Natalina Stamile
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Incursions

Riconoscere la discriminazione intersezionale: riflessioni sulla sterilizzazione non volontaria delle donne Rom e le possibilità di una giustizia equa e riparativa

Serena D'Agostino, Tina Magazzini
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Transforma(c)tions

Taking raving seriously. Intervista a McKenzie Wark

Mariella Popolla
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Reviews

Carrasco-Miró, Gisela (2025). Decolonizing feminist economics: Possibilities for just futures. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 220 pp.

Noemi Chiavassa
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Sassatelli Roberta, & Ghigi, Rossella (2024). Body and gender. Cambridge: Polity press, 257 pp.

Marilin Mantineo
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Rigo, Enrica (2022). La straniera. Migrazioni, asilo, sfruttamento in una prospettiva di genere. Roma: Carocci, 142 pp.

Chiara Marchetti
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Segato, Rita (2023). La guerra contro le donne. Napoli: Tamu, 316 pp.

Cristina Vargas
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Work in Progress

La povertà in Italia e le implicazioni sociologiche che ne conseguono

Antonio Pio Spoletta
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