IJFS - Interdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies

In February 2011, the CIRSDe - Interdisciplinary Centre for Women’s Studies
and research at the University of Turin organized the international Conference “World
Wide Women: Globalization, Gender, Languages”. One of the sessions of the Conference
deals with the issue of violence and women’s agency. In this contribution I will present some
key issues that have been discussed by a number of contributions that focused on the specific
issue of domestic violence in relation to the new phenomena of globalization. The first point
refers to the issue of “definitions” or “re-definitions” that the new multicultural and new
repositioning of gender relations require from us. The other major issue deals with the
relationship between violence and globalization.