The edited volume explores the causes, forms, and cultures of gender-based violence in society, including how children are educated, how games, art and even language promote differences, stereotypes, neutrality between men and women. It is a place to reflect on the growing importance of tolerance, diversity and acceptance of others. The book focuses on many facets, whether in a confined or public space, with a series of empirical and theoretical chapters from around the world.

The volume provides key contemporary commentary on the changing dynamics of gender-based violence. It unveils a range of contexts and spaces in which gender-based violence happens, showcasing its scale and impact worldwide. The discussions presented in the book encourage a critical reflection on the global pandemic of gender-based violence, prompting a vital question about the sufficiency and effectiveness of responses to this global crisis (Professor Olga Jurasz, The Open University Law School).

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Prof. Anne Wagner (Ph.D. and Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Private Law) is Research Associate Professor at Lille University, ULR 4487-CRDP-Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit (France). Her main research lies in visual jurisprudence, Law and Semiotics, Law and Criminology, Legal Discourse Analyses, Law and the Humanities, jurilinguistics and Legal Translation. She is a recipient of the National Research Award (Rank A) for her research career and Comenda Jurista Tobias Barreto, Alta Distinção da Cultura Juridica, Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos do Direito, Recife, Brazil. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Springer), President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law, Series Co-Editor of Law, Language and Communication (Routledge), and Series Co-Editor of Law and Visual Jurisprudence; Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism; Living Signs of Law (Springer).

Prof. Angela Condello (JD, PhD) is Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Law Department, University of Messina. She is also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, where she held a Jean Monnet Module on human rights and critical legal thinking within the European legal culture (2017-2020). Her main research lies in legal theory, algorithm and legal method, legal feminism, critical theories of law, and law and humanities. She sits on the board of numerous journals and book series and is the author of six books, including Il diritto come metodo e la scienza algoritmica (ETS 2022) and Money, Social Ontology and Law (with J.R. Searle and M. Ferraris, Routledge 2019). She is the series Co-editor of Sotto Sopra la Legge. Questioni di giusfemminismo (Mimesis).