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.
Buscatto, Marie: - "Marie Buscatto is a Full Professor of Sociology at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a researcher at IDHE.S (Paris 1 - CNRS). A sociologist of work, of gender and of the arts, she is also interested in methodological issues. Based on her empirical research conducted in the French and Japanese jazz worlds, her current thinking focuses on the difficulties women have to get access, to remain and to be promoted in music and art worlds, and on gender-based violence in the arts in Europe, in North America and in Japan. She is also studying contemporary artistic practices, trajectories and professionalism. Finally, she develops an epistemological reflection on qualitative methods. To know more about her publications (more than 150, in French, English, Greek and Japanese), go to: https: //www.researchgate.net/profile/Marie-Buscatto"
Karttunen, Sari: - Sari Karttunen, D.Soc.Sc., is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Cultural Policy Research (CUPORE) in Finland. 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, Finland. Karttunen specializes in the sociology of artistic occupations and the construction and critique of cultural statistics and other knowledge bases for cultural policy. At CUPORE, she currently leads projects focused on diversity and equity in arts and culture, as well as artists' psycho-social well-being at work. Karttunen served as the co-coordinator for the Research Network Sociology of the Arts of the European Sociological Association from 2017 to 2019 and as the coordinator from 2019 to 2021. Researcher profile: ResearchGate; CUPORE.
Provansal, Mathilde: - Dr. Mathilde Provansal, is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology and Gender Studies at the Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Her research interests include gender inequality and gender-based violence in artistic education and artistic professions, in France and Germany. In June 2023, ENS Éditions published her monograph Artistes mais femmes. Une enquête sociologique dans l'art contemporain. The book is based on her PhD thesis on gender inequality in artistic careers in contemporary art, which received the Valois Prize from the French ministry of Culture and the doctoral prize of the French National Observatory of Student Life. Juliette Rogers is working on the English translation of the book. More information about Mathilde Provansal: https: //www.gender.soziologie.unimuenchen. de/personen/wissenschaftlich_mitarbeiter/provansal/index.html
