GENDER-BASED VIOLENCES,HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA

1. Gender  Based  Violence:  reflections  on  the  borderline  between psychoanalysis and humanities

2. Intersectional   Identities   and   Differing   Responses   to   Gender-based Violence on the Island of Ireland

3. Stigma and violence within the gender system: learning of normative models and resilience strategies

4. (Em)Powering  Woman:  new  approaches  to  individual  psychological well-being

5. Perspectives,  tools  and  methodologies  to  prevent  and  combat  gender  and  homophobic  violence:  problems  and  resources  picked out from the experience of Italian associations

6.  “Hermes”  interviews  the  First  Responders:  investigation  on  representations  and  emotional  dimension  of  the  operators  of  the  women's crisis centres.

7.  The  integration  between  public  and  private  actors  in  the  management  of  the  network  of  services  for  the  LGBT  population:  constraints and opportunities.

8 .Homosexing...  in  The  City.  LGBT  Communities  and  Rainbow Tourism

The volume collects the scientific contributions of those who participated at the European project “Hermes – Linking network to fight sexual and gender stigma”, co-financed by the European Community within the Daphne III Program. It was simultaneously carried out in Naples, Madrid and Dublin where partners worked for a common purpose of fighting homophobia and transphobia at different levels. The project was aimed at preventing different types of stigma related to gender and sexual orientation, implementing a network of NGOs and territorial Institutions and preventing violence against women and LGBT people through trainings and prevention interventions addressed to first responders and schools at risk. Due to the many objectives and activities carried out during the two-years project, it can represent an example of Good Practices to use for the prevention of sexual and gender stigma. To offer a complete perspective on these themes, this volume includes many papers belonging to different scientific disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, political sciences and gender and queer studies.