The Bounded Limitlessness of Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: The Implications for Women and Gender-Sexual Relations

Matthew Hall, Ruth Lewis, Jeff Hearn

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Abstract

Developments in digital technologies might provide limitless ways to reshape humanity's very existence, but also open up what we term "bounded limitless" opportunities for digital gender-sexual violations (DGSV). That is, "limitless" opportunities for men to sexually violate women within the inherent "boundedness" of digital technological infrastructures and architectures. Building on the existing interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, we explore the gendered disbenefits, specifically some of the ways in which digital technologies provide men with "bounded limitless" opportunities to perpetrate DGSV in physical and virtual times and spaces, and the implications for women, their bodies, and gender-sexual relations more broadly.
Original languageEnglish
JournalViolence Against Women
Early online date25 Oct 2024
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 25 Oct 2024

Keywords

  • digital gender–sexual violations
  • bounded limitlessness
  • gender–sexual relations

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