Consuelo Corradi

• Ph.D.
• Professor (Full) at Maria SS. Assunta University of Rome

Alberto Izzo nella scuola romana di sociologia Frammenti per una storia della sociologia italiana Morlacchi Editore U.P.

Actions to counter violence against women are a fully fledged policy field with significant differences across countries. Through a comparative analysis of Spain and Italy, this article maps the interplay between women's movements and national governments in launching violence against women (VAW) policies. In Spain, policy formation was the outcome...

La violenza di genere è oggi una narrazione centrale nell’agenda transnazionale delle donne. In questo articolo, l’autrice propone di guardare alla convergenza tra l’azione dei movimenti delle donne, la forza del tema violenza come frame e l’uso tecno-politico dei media digitali. L’ipotesi che i media digitali abbiano contribuito a disseminare la n...

Abstract Femicide is a violation of the basic human rights to life, liberty and personal security, as well as an obstacle to social and economic development. The term indicates the act of intentionally killing a female person, either woman or girl, because of her gender, and it is the end-result of combined risk factors existing at the level of the...

Despite the efforts of recent decades to reduce gender inequality, sexism is still prevalent among adolescents. The objective of this study was to identify the main socioeconomic characteristics, personal experiences, resources, and competencies associated with sexism in a sample of adolescents from different European countries. Baseline data from...

This article aims to explore some of the fundamental notions that connect the narrative of feminist emancipation to the experience of motherhood. It elucidates any inherent contradictions, appraises their implications for motherhood and assesses their respective salience today for feminist thought. It does so, in particular, by setting motherhood i...

Consuelo Corradi busca responder a preguntas sobre las características de la violencia en el mundo contemporaneo y los vínculos con la identidad y la cultura. La hipótesis de este libro es que la violencia es una fuerza social que dota de estructura y significado a la realidad, que genera poder y se confunde con él. La autora propone la definición...

This article analyzes the Twitter conversations carrying the hashtag #NiUnaMenos produced in Argentina during the time of the marches in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by adopting a quali-quantitative method. After describing the origins of NiUnaMenos, we illustrate the mobilizing force of femicide in a context of technopolitical use of social media by wome...

In the last 25 years, women’s movements, governments and international bodies have been active in awareness-raising on and reduction of violence against women (VAW). The main aim of this issue is to provide an overview of comparative perspectives of policies and services, which offer an innovative point of view to evaluate action. A comparative out...

The purpose of this chapter is to critically review the particular meanings that femicide has acquired when applied in different contexts. The first section presents and compares definitions of femicide. The second section lays out four country case studies – Mexico, Argentina, Italy and India – where the notion of femicide has spread in associatio...

This research article summarizes the chronogram of United Nations documents issued since 1993 to combat gender-based violence against women, analyzing the case of two countries in particular, Mexico and Italy, in a comparative qualitative methodology. We examine the sequence of legal acts approved in each country, the semantics of laws, their theor...

“Women's movements and Gestational Surrogacy. Engaging, debating and policy making - WoMoGeS” is a 3-year comparative study on the different positions, frames, strategic alliances, policy making and mobilization of women’s movements (WMs) on gestational surrogacy (GS) in 4 countries: USA, Mexico, Italy and India. WoMoGeS is conducted by researcher...

Background Preventing intimate partner violence or dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health priority due to its magnitude and damaging short and long-term consequences for adolescent and adult health. In our study protocol, we complement prior experiences in DV prevention by promoting protective factors (or assets) against gender v...

Surrogacy is a divisive emerging topic in Italian feminism: while some groups mobilize for a universal ban, other criticize the abolitionist request for neglecting women’s freedom. This article identifies and discusses the principal themes of this debate. Abolitionists build their arguments on the theme of the commodification of woman and child on...

Surrogacy is a divisive emerging topic in Italian feminism: while some groups mobilize for universal ban, other criticize the abolitionist request for neglecting women freedom. This article identifies and discusses principal themes of this debate. Abolitionists build their arguments on the theme of commodification of woman and child and on the them...

Objectives: To describe and analyze whether a relationship exists between gender equality and political responses to gender violence (GV) against women with physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) in the European Union (EU). Methods: We analyzed a subsample of 39,269 ever-partnered women aged 18 and older from the violence against...

Da quarant'anni il fenomeno della violenza contro le donne occupa un posto di crescente importanza internazionale. In Italia, le politiche pubbliche prendono inizio a metà degli anni '90, con un notevole ritardo. Scopo dell'articolo è di comprenderne i motivi: perché l'Italia arriva tardi su questo tema, rispetto ad altri paesi dell'Europa occident...

This book gathers contributions from a wide range of fields to address the broad topic of women and religion. The contributors use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to address key themes and issues such as the attitudes of different religions to gender equality, how women construct identity through religious activity, whether women...

This introductory chapter discusses the relationship between social change, religion, and women's lives and self-definition in the contemporary world. Using international and interdisciplinary perspectives reflective of different religious traditions, this volume pays attention to the specific experiences and positions of women, or particular group...

Women and religion: an invisible story This book aims to discuss some aspects of the relationship between social change, religion and women's lives and self-definition in the contemporary world. Using international and interdisciplinary perspectives reflective of different religious traditions, this collection pays attention to the specific experie...

This book provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women's identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understand patterns of religiosity and religious change. It also addresses...

The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How should research and new ways of thinking about violence improve its measurement? Could improved measurement change policy? The book is a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved. It shows how to make femicide, rape, domestic violence,...

The cross-national analysis of policies and services offers an innovative point of view to evaluate the role of the state, social movements, and supra-national bodies in fighting violence against women (VAW). By locating the starting point in time and grouping countries in temporal clusters, the article identifies the key actors of VAW policy-makin...

El feminicidio es más que un neologismo. El femicidio se refiere a un fenómeno violento, es más, designa el asesinato con intención. Todos los femicidios son expresiones de violencia extrema. Son de una “patología social”. Tenemos que luchar contra este fenómeno atroz y despreciable en sus dimensiones local y global. Se produce en muchas partes del...

Almost four decades have passed since the term femicide was coined in 1976. This new word had a political purpose, in that it intended to produce changes in the social order which tolerated the violent death of women. Since that time, the word has generated a theoretical concept that encompasses the killing of a woman as a specific social phenomeno...

Can sociology comprehend evil? The contemporary relevance of Kurt H. Wolff’s sociology is his lucid, critical vision of modernity which does not shy awayfrom understanding what evil is. This is accompanied not by pessimism, but by trust in human beings and their positive ability to appeal to the moral conscience. Read today, Wolff’s pages must be p...

Can sociology comprehend evil? The contemporary relevance of Kurt H. Wolff’s sociology is his lucid, critical vision of modernity which does not shy away from understanding what evil is. This is accompanied not by pessimism, but by trust in human beings and their positive ability to appeal to the moral conscience. Read today, Wolff’s pages must be...

Homicide is an important source of premature mortality, with intimate partners committing approximately one in seven homicides. Utilizing national statistics, this article explores recent data on intimate partner homicide in 10 European countries, namely Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK....

Domestic violence is an important source of premature mortality for women worldwide, with an estimated one in three female homicides committed by an intimate partner. Among women in high income countries it can be even higher, with up to 1 in 2 female homicides being perpetrated by an intimate partner. The aim of the paper is to discuss the role of...

Mass media play an important role in raising awareness on social issues. In Italy, how do mass media cover crime? The survey of the female murder cases covered by the TV evening news in 2006 shows that media broadcast an anti-immigrant rhetoric which misrepresented reality. In this case, Cohen's notion of moral panic can be applied to capture the d...

Catania, 30 March 2009. It is ten o'clock in the morning and 113, the emergency telephone number in Italy, receives a call in a male voice: " come right away, I have killed my wife ". The police go to a building in the centre of the city and find the body of Maria Pia Sciuto. This woman, aged forty-one, has been stabbed to death. Two relatives of t...

Pendant de nombreuses années, la violence a représenté un phénomène en grande partie ignorée par la sociologie. Il existe une conception instrumentale de violence, selon laquelle celle-ci est un moyen à travers lequel atteindre des objectifs déterminés, mais nous devons formuler un autre conception "moderniste" selon laquelle la violence est une fo...

A lively concern for new instruments of knowledge has led sociology, among other disciplines, to collect life stories in order to explore social phenomena. Dialogue and interpersonal communication thus become crucial tools, as well as loci of knowledge. This paper investigates the epistemological suppositions of `the biographical approach': the que...

Nel mese di aprile del 1992 le truppe serbe attaccarono la Bosnia Erzegovina, un mese dopo che questa, a seguito di un referendum popolare, aveva dichiarato la sua indipendenza dalla Federazione yugoslava. L'esercito yugoslavo era forte e ben addestrato, ma oltre ai soldati regolari, esso era composto anche da volontari e da truppe paramilitari, co...