Gender-Based Violence and the Law

List of figures vii

List of tables viii

List of contributors ix

Foreword xvi

DALIA LEINARTE

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 AMANKAVICIUTE AND MONIKA ZALNIERIUTE

2 Failed hegemonic masculinity, negative emotions, and gender-based violence: theories and elaborations 21

ARTURAS TERESKINAS

3 Gender-based violence in international instruments and case law of the European Court of Human Rights 40

AGNE LIMANTE

4 The Istanbul Convention in the constitutional jurisprudence of Central and Eastern European states 60

DOVILE PURAITE-ANDRIKIENE

PART II

Spotlight on domestic violence 87

5 Approaches to the criminalisation of domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe 89

JOLANTA APOLEVIC AND ELZBIETA 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 VASILIAUSKAITE, LILIJA HENRIKA VASILIAUSKE AND EVELINA DIRMOTAITE

7 Rethinking work with intimate partner perpetrators: new prospects for the successful implementation of batterer intervention programmes in Lithuania 128

RUTA VAICIUNIENE AND ILONA MICHAILOVIC

8 The economic empowerment of women as a factor contributing to the prevention of domestic violence 150

JOLANTA APOLEVIC

9 Gender-based violence against women with disabilities 168

ROKAS USCILA AND DOVILE JUODKAITE

PART III

Gender-based violence in public spaces 187

10 Sexual harassment in the workplace in Lithuania: what does the silence say? 189

KRISTINA AMBRAZEVICIUTE

11 What makes academia (un)safe: experiences, observations, and consequences of gender-based violence in different stages of individual researchers' careers 206

VILANA PILINKAITE SOTIROVIC AND GIEDRE BLAZYTE

12 Gender-based violence online: cyberstalking overview in Lithuania 233

LIUBOVE JARUTIENE, ILONA MICHAILOVIC AND ILONA LAURINAITYTE

Index 255