Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work - cover image

Copyright

Marie Buscatto; Sari Karttunen; Mathilde Provansal. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).

Published On

2025-06-23

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-448-2
Hardback978-1-80511-449-9
PDF978-1-80511-450-5
HTML978-1-80511-452-9
EPUB978-1-80511-451-2

Language

  • English

Print Length

231 pages (x+221)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 12 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.47" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 14 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.55" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback332g (11.71oz)
Hardback504g (17.78oz)

OCLC Number

1525466826

LCCN

2025465550

THEMA

  • JBFK
  • JBSF1
  • JBSF11
  • JBFK2
  • ATX

BISAC

  • SOC032000
  • SOC028000
  • SOC051000
  • SOC031000
  • PER000000

LCC

  • HV6250.4.W65

Keywords

  • Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
  • sociology
  • Cultural studies
  • art and cultural work
  • gender studies
  • artistic education

Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture

Perspectives on Education and Work

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the pervasive issue of gender-based violence (GBV) within the realms of art and cultural production. This collection of essays delves into both the overt and subtle forms of GBV. It spans sexual harassment, assault, and the everyday sexism ingrained in creative workplaces and art schools, in both professional and private dimensions. The book covers a wide array of artistic sectors—opera, visual arts, music, and theatre—across diverse global contexts, from Europe to Asia and North America.

By incorporating feminist and sociological theories, the essays not only examine the structural power dynamics that perpetuate GBV but also highlight efforts to challenge and dismantle these systems. The book addresses both criminal acts of violence and the "ordinary" forms of sexism that pervade artistic spaces, making visible the normalized patterns of behavior that maintain gender inequality. The volume is divided into three parts: the production of GBV, its representations in cultural work, and the initiatives to counteract it.

A crucial contribution to ongoing discussions of workplace and educational inequality, this timely volume fills a notable gap in research on gender-based violence within the arts. Its methodological rigor and international perspective ensure that it will serve as a key resource for scholars, practitioners, and advocates alike.

Endorsements

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)

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Contributors

Marie Buscatto

(editor)
Full Professor of Sociology at Pantheon-Sorbonne University
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marie-Buscatto

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.

Sari Karttunen

(editor)
Senior Researcher at Center for Cultural Policy Research
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7248-4671

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

(editor)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
https://www.gender.soziologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wissenschaftlich_mitarbeiter/provansal/index.html

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).