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
    Pages (from-to)88-109
    Number of pages22
    JournalViolence Against Women
    Volume32
    Issue number1
    Early online date25 Oct 2024
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2026

    Keywords

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

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