The contended body: the construction of public discourses on women’s body that makes violence possible. A study case in the Italian North East

Abstract

The present work historically framed the issue of citizenship of women's

rights, such as continuing discrimination that continually reproduces itself

through the way in which the female body is represented by the media.

Stereotypes and prejudices that build the imagination of common sense with

respect to the role of women in society reproduce a scenario of extreme

depersonalization up to the dehumanization of their body, scenery that

makes it possible to consider the violence of that body made object an act

possible. Examines some recent cases of femicide long remained under the

media spotlight.