Rethinking Welfare to prevent and combat gender-based violence
Welfare e Ergonomia Issue 2/2025
edited by Pietro Demurtas and Emiliana Mangone
Issue 2/2025 of the journal Welfare e Ergonomia, “Rethinking Welfare to prevent and combat gender-based violence”, edited by Pietro Demurtas and Emiliana Mangone, has been published.
This issue analyzes the evolution of the Italian anti-violence system, which originated in the 1970s through the initiative of feminist movements and developed with significant regional differences until achieving greater national coordination following the Istanbul Convention (2013). Today, it is characterized by the complexity of multi-level governance and the need to coordinate often diverse actors and approaches.
Gender-based violence emerges as a testing ground for welfare: as a widespread and persistent phenomenon, it highlights the impact of social and economic inequalities on the possibilities of escaping violence.
How to cite
Pietro Demurtas and Emiliana Mangone (eds.), Rethinking Welfare to prevent and combat gender-based violence: challenges and opportunities for an integrated system, Welfare e Ergonomia, 2025, 2, ISSN 2421-3691, ISSNe 2531-9817.
LONG ABSTRACT
- From Combating Violence Through Empowerment to a Vision for a Renewed Welfare State. Giorgia Serughetti
- Men’s involvement in preventing gender violence: socio-educational and cultural
- strategies for an integrated welfare. Giuseppe Masullo, Lucia Picarella
- “Plausible” subjects and missing resources: An intersectional reading of gender-based violence in LGBT relationships. Elisa Begnis, Maria Urso, Simone Tuzza, Martina Lo Cascio, Sandra Sicurella and Cirus Rinaldi
- Regional Heterogeneity and Minimum Standards: A Challenge for the Italian Anti-Violence System. Alice Marta Mauri and Francesca Cubeddu
- Geographies of anti-violence networks: challenges in governance and center/periphery conflicts. Maddalena Cannito & Paola Maria Torrioni
- Local Governance and the Socio-Economic Empowerment of Women Escaping Gender-Based Violence: Evidence from Three Italian Case Studies. Cecilia Nessi and Antonietta Riccardo
- Academia in the Mirror: An Analysis of Italian Universities’ Policies for the Recognition, Prevention, and Response to Gender-Based Violence. Tindara Addabbo, Carlotta Barra, Ester Cois and Ilenia Picardi
- Gender-based violence and homeless women: between invisibility and hiding. Santa Giuseppina Tumminelli
- Domestic Violence Against Older Women in Italy: Anti-Violence Policies Grappling with Sexism, Ageism, and Familism. Barbara Da Roit, Elisa Matutini, Fabio Perocco and Stefania Spada
- Gender-Based Violence and Cyber-Helping: The Affordance of Dedicated Apps Between Opportunities and Obstacles. Daniele Battista and Marianna Coppola
