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(Re)Constructing gender and sexuality in and through mobile media

The International Journal of Gender Studies AG About Gender has recently published an interesting issue dedicated to the increasingly close relationships between digital media, gender and sexuality.Every year, the academic journal welcomes and publishes articles from any field of study that adopt a

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Understanding Economic Violence against Women: The need for harmonised definitions and data in the EU

The European Institute for Gender Equality has published an important contribution on economic violence. In addition to the statistical analysis of the phenomenon, the text indicates the best methodologies for data collection and the invite to harmonise the methods of investigation by European

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Gender Equality Index 2023

On the 24th of October, the European Institute for Gender Equality - EIGE published the Gender Equality Index 2023, the index that measures the progress of gender equality in different areas of economic and social life in the EU Member States.The thematic focus of this report is the socially

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Methodological Guidance: Administrative data collection on violence against women and domestic violence

On the 18th of Dec 2023 the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) presented a new publication entitled Methodological Guidance: Administrative data collection on violence against women and domestic violence.The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has developed 13 indicators on

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Call for papers: Sex, work and rights: contested meanings and transformative knowledge on sex work in a globalised Europe

The international open access and peer-reviewed magazine AG About Gender of the University of Genoa has launched a call for papers entitled "Sex, work and rights: contested meanings and transformative knowledge on sex work in a globalised Europe".The paper is required to focus on the topic of sexual

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