1st Edition
Gender-Based Violence and the Law Global Perspectives and Eastern European Practices
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Foreword xvi
DALIA LEINARTĖ
Preface xviii
PART I
Theoretical, political, and legal framework for responding to gender-based violence 1
1 A feminist approach to gender-based violence: the role of the objectification and sexualisation of women 3
SANDRA AMANKAVIČIŪTĖ AND MONIKA ŽALNIERIŪTĖ
2 Failed hegemonic masculinity, negative emotions, and gender-based violence: theories and elaborations 21
ARTŪRAS TEREŠKINAS
3 Gender-based violence in international instruments and case law of the European Court of Human Rights 40
AGNĖ LIMANTĖ
4 The Istanbul Convention in the constitutional jurisprudence of Central and Eastern European states 60
DOVILĖ PŪRAITĖ-ANDRIKIENĖ
PART II
Spotlight on domestic violence 87
5 Approaches to the criminalisation of domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe 89
JOLANTA APOLEVIČ AND ELŻBIETA KUZBORSKA-PACHA
6 The changing paradigm in help provision for survivors of intimate partner violence: specialised complex help vs generic social help model 109
ZUZANA VASILIAUSKAITĖ, LILIJA HENRIKA VASILIAUSKĖ AND EVELINA DIRMOTAITĖ
7 Rethinking work with intimate partner perpetrators: new prospects for the successful implementation of batterer intervention programmes in Lithuania 128
RŪTA VAIČIŪNIENĖ AND ILONA MICHAILOVIČ
8 The economic empowerment of women as a factor contributing to the prevention of domestic violence 150
JOLANTA APOLEVIČ
9 Gender-based violence against women with disabilities 168
ROKAS USCILA AND DOVILĖ JUODKAITĖ
PART III
Gender-based violence in public spaces 187
10 Sexual harassment in the workplace in Lithuania: what does the silence say? 189
KRISTINA AMBRAZEVIČIŪTĖ
11 What makes academia (un)safe: experiences, observations, and consequences of gender-based violence in different stages of individual researchers’ careers 206
VILANA PILINKAITĖ SOTIROVIČ AND GIEDRĖ BLAŽYTĖ
12 Gender-based violence online: cyberstalking overview in Lithuania 233
LIUBOVĖ JARUTIENĖ, ILONA MICHAILOVIČ AND ILONA LAURINAITYTĖ
Index 255
Biography
Agnė Limantė is a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.
Artūras Tereškinas is a professor of sociology at Vytautas Magnus University and a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.
Rūta Vaičiūnienė is a senior researcher and the Head of the Criminological Research Department at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.
