The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Gender, Violence and Technology: At a Conceptual and Empirical Crossroad

   • Anastasia Powell, Asher Flynn, Lisa Sugiura

   Pages 1-15

3. Reflecting on Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. [Cum]munity Standards: Resisting Online Sexual Harassment and Abuse

      • Morgan Barbour

      Pages 19-39

   3. Legal Possibilities and Criminalised Population Groups: A Personal Experience of an Indigenous Woman in the Sex Trade

      • Naomi Sayers

      Pages 41-53

   4. Image-Based Sexual Abuse and Deepfakes: A Survivor Turned Activist’s Perspective

      • Noelle Martin

      Pages 55-72

4. Framing Gender, Technology & Violence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. From Individual Perpetrators to Global Mobilisation Strategies: The Micro-Foundations of Digital Violence Against Women

      • Lilia Giugni

      Pages 75-91

   3. Alternate Realities, Alternate Internets: African Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet

      • Neema Iyer

      Pages 93-113

   4. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Women’s Experiences of Technology-Facilitated Violence: An Intersectional Approach

      • Carolina Leyton Zamora, Jennifer Boddy, Patrick O’Leary, Jianqiang (Joe) Liang

      Pages 115-134

   5. Abuse as Artefact: Understanding Digital Abuse of Women as Cultural Informant

      • Lauren Rosewarne

      Pages 135-153

5. Stalking and Partner Abuse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. ‘Intimate Intrusions’: Technology Facilitated Dating and Intimate Partner Violence

      • Anastasia Powell

      Pages 157-179

   3. Love, Hate and Sovereign Bodies: The Exigencies of Aboriginal Online Dating

      • Bronwyn Carlson, Madi Day

      Pages 181-201

   4. Cyberstalking: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Impact

      • Jenna L. Harewell, Afroditi Pina, Jennifer E. Storey

      Pages 203-227

   5. Crossing a Line? Understandings of the Relative Seriousness of Online and Offline Intrusive Behaviours Among Young Adults

      • Victoria Coleman, Adrian J. Scott, Jeff Gavin, Nikki Rajakaruna

      Pages 229-257

6. Sexual and Image Based Abuse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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   2. The Impact of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: A Literature Review of Qualitative Research

      • Joanne Worsley, Grace Carter

      Pages 261-280

   3. ‘It’s like Mental Rape I Guess’: Young New Zealanders’ Responses to Image-Based Sexual Abuse

      • Claire Meehan

      Pages 281-295

   4. Image-Based Sexual Abuse: An LGBTQ+ Perspective

      • Ronnie Meechan-Rogers, Caroline Bradbury Jones, Nicola Ward

      Pages 297-318

This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as legal, community and activist responses to these harms. It offers an inclusive and intersectional treatment of gendered violence including that experienced by gender, sexuality and racially diverse victim-survivors. It examines the types of gendered violence facilitated by technologies but also responses to these harms from the perspectives of victim advocates, legal analyses, organisational and community responses, as well as activism within civil society. It is unique in its recognition of the intersecting drivers of inequality and marginalisation including misogyny, racism, colonialism and homophobia. It draws together the expertise of a range of established and globally renowned scholars in the field, as well as survivor-advocate-scholars and emerging scholars, lending a combination of credibility, rigor, currency, and innovation throughout. This handbook further provides recommendations for policy and practice and will appeal to academics and students in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Politics, as well as Women’s and/or Gender Studies.

• Gender, Sexuality and Law
• Violence and Crime
• violence against women
• social policy
• stalking
• abuse
• cybercrime
• image based abuse
• sexual abuse
• online hate
• harrassment
• crime online
• rape
• technology and justice
• misogyny
• responses to violence
• social media activism
• human rights
• political sociology
• criminal law

​“This is an incredibly relevant, comprehensive and compelling collection which challenges us to think globally and holistically about technology-facilitated gendered violence. Drawing from an impressive range of contributors, disciplines, perspectives and methodologies, this handbook is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the nature and harms of these forms of violence, alongside the implications for justice” - Professor Neil Chakraborti, University of Leicester, UK 
“The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology is a landmark collection charting the rapid development of interest in, and the impact of, technology on the nature and extent of gendered violence. The editors are to be commended for bringing together a diversity of national and international voices articulating the cutting edge thinking to be found in this field. In putting victim-survivor voices at the front and centre of both formal and informal responses to experiencesof a wide range of technology driven gendered violence(s), this collection will undoubtedly shape the future in this area of investigation. Scholarly, provocative, critical and committed, it will become the major reference point for anyone developing research in, or policy responses to, gender, technology and violence” - Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Liverpool, UK, conjoint chair of Criminology, Monash, Australia. 

• Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  Anastasia Powell

• School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

  Asher Flynn

• University of Portsmouth, Southampton, UK

  Lisa Sugiura

Anastasia Powell is Associate Professor in Criminology and Justice Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and Director of Our Watch, Australia’s national organisation for the prevention of violence against women and their children.



Asher Flynn is Associate Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Vice President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. 


Lisa Sugiura is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Cybercrime at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK, and Deputy Director of the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic. 

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