The book contributes to the field of sociology of art and culture by bringing together studies that explore various manifestations of violence against women in artistic environments. This timely publication is a valuable addition to scholarly and more broad discussions, particularly those sparked by the #MeToo movement.
Dr Nicoletta Mandolini
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Marie Buscatto is a Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at IDHE.S (Paris 1—CNRS). She is a sociologist of work, gender and the arts, and a specialist in qualitative methods. Her current work focuses on gender inequalities in art worlds and prestigious professions, gender-based violence in the arts and the paradoxes of artistic work in Europe, North America and Japan. Her most recent publications in English include Women in Jazz. Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization (Routledge, 2021) and ‘Getting Old in Art. Revisiting the Trajectories of ‘Modest’ Artists’ (Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques, 2019). To find out more about her (more than) 160 publications, go to https://www.researchgate.net/profile/ Marie-Buscatto. Having spent her post-doctoral years at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), Chiharu Chujo is currently Associate Professor at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France). Her dissertation, which she defended in 2018, focuses on committed Japanese women musicians from the 1970s to the present. She is currently pursuing her research on gender issues in the Japanese music industry, particularly in the world of hip-hop and electronic music. She has translated numerous books on the subject, including Femmes du jazz (Marie Buscatto, 2007) and Be Creative (Angela McRobbie, 2016). She is the author of several articles, including ‘Chanter l’écologisme dans le Japon de l’après-Fukushima:l’ambivalence de la musique écoféministe chez UA’ (Itinéraires, 2021) and ‘Representing Love among Female Rappers: Transgressing, Poaching and Dialoguing’ (in Japanese, Eureka, 023).
Sari Karttunen, DSoc Sc, is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Cultural Policy Research CUPORE in Helsinki. She is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki and holds the title of Adjunct Professor in cultural policy at the University of Jyväskylä. Her expertise lies in the sociology of artistic occupations and the analysis and critique of cultural statistics and other knowledge bases used in cultural policy. Currently, her research interests focus on diversity issues within cultural policy. Sari is an active member of the Research Network on Sociology of the Arts of the European Sociological Association, having served as co-coordinator from 2017 to 2019 and coordinator from 2019 to 2021.
Mathilde Provansal is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany). Her research concerns gender inequality and gender-based violence in art schools and contemporary art. She published the monograph Artistes mais femmes. Une enquête sociologique dans l’art contemporain (ENS Éditions, 2023), based on her dissertation on gender inequality in contemporary art, which was awarded two prizes: the Valois prize 2020 from the French Ministry of Culture, and the Louis Gruel prize from the Observatoire National de la Vie Étudiante (National Student Life Observatory). She has also published several articles, including ‘Precarious Professional Identities. Women Artists and Gender Inequality within Contemporary Art’ (L’Année Sociologique, 2024).