Violence Against Women

In 1950s Naples, Elena and Lila’s friendship is shaped by unequal schooling, class barriers, and gendered violence in the first Neapolitan novel.

The Vegetarian is a Man Booker International Prize-winning novel by Korean author Han Kang. It tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary housewife who, in order to reject human violence, decides to stop eating meat and eventually wants to transform herself into a tree. It is a fable about female bodily autonomy, refusal of social norms, and the quest for a purely 'harmless' existence in a violent world.

Benoîte Groult's 1975 popular feminist polemic traces misogyny through historical erasure, bodily regulation, and linguistic power while retaining limits that invite intersectional and decolonial rereading.

Following a rape survivor through one night of hospitals and police stations, Kaouther Ben Hania exposes how institutions convert the demand for care into an ordeal of proof, shame, and intimidation.

Rita Segato asks what democracy can be called full while gender violence and racism continue to limit women’s citizenship and political life.

Zainab Salbi redirects attention from war’s front line to the women who maintain daily life, survive gendered violence, and are then excluded from formal peace negotiations.