Storying the Immobilities of Gender Violence in the UK and Me... - 9781788929073

Name: Storying the Immobilities of Gender Violence in the UK and Me... - 9781788929073
Brand: Multilingual Matters

Multilingual Matters

Storying the Immobilities of Gender Violence in the UK and MexicoAuthor(s): Lesley Murray, Jess Moriarty, Paula Soto Villagrn, Olga Sabido Ramos\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Multilingual Matters, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781788929073, 978-1788929073\nSynopsis\nOffers an arts-based, storying, textual and visual lens on gender-based violence in the UK and Mexico.\n\nThis book is a unique image-based bilingual (English and Spanish) book of textual and visual narratives of gender-based violence (GBV) in the UK and Mexico, framed with a critical commentary that sets these stories in the context of GBV in both countries.\n\nVisual and textual stories convey the 'felt' experience of GBV, engaging readers and audiences in the apparently mundane as well as the shocking. Such stories help contest the prominence of crime statistics in evidencing GBV, statistics which often distort experience and reflect and maintain exclusionary policies and practices, particul.