Special Issue: Gendered Violence,the State,and the Individual—A Legal and Historical Approach

Abstract

This article introduces the special issue entitled Gendered Violence, the State and the Individual. A Legal and Historical Approach by using a judgment issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2021 as example of the ambiguous societal and statal responses to gendered violence. Key feminist theories are outlined in order to expose the several facets and forms of violence and the State's critical role in combating, eradicating, and preventing, but also in perpetrating and perpetuating violence. Altogether, the special issue exposes the ambivalence of the State as protector and oppressor in both the public and private dimensions and aims to advocate for the need of a deeply socio-cultural, global and holistic approach that implements an inclusive and transformative justice.