Giornata internazionale della lingua madre
Consulta del Municipio Roma VIII
Sala conciliare “Piacentina Lo Mastro”, via Benedetto Croce 50, Roma
ore 10.30
con
Graziella Priulla – Università di Catania
Stefania Cavagnoli – GeS
Francesca Dragotto – GeS
GeS sarà presente con una relazione di
Elisa Giomi (Roma Tre University), Francesca Dragotto, (University of Roma ‘Tor Vergata’) and Sonia Melchiorre (University of Tuscia, Italy) su
Putting Women Back in their Place: Reflections around sexist hate speech and slut shaming on Italian social media,
Abstract
Compared to racist and ethnicist discourses, literature on sexist discourses – both off and on-line – as hate speech is relatively underinvestigated (Lilian 2007). This is partly due to the tendency to minimize accusations of sexism (Worth et al. 2015) and to reframe misogyny as ‘acceptable’ by constructing it as a form of humor (Drakett, Rikett 2018). Such a tendency, although widespread, is strong in Italy as it colludes with ‘anti-politically correctness’ rhetorics, which dismisses accusations of sexism as moralism or attempts to restrict freedom of speech.
We decided to focus on slut-shaming, one of the most virulent forms of hate speech…
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