Agn Limant is a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.

Artras Tereškinas is a professor of sociology at Vytautas Magnus University and a chief researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.

Rta Vaiinien is a senior researcher and the Head of the Criminological Research Department at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences.

List of figures vii

List of tables viii

List of contributors ix

Foreword xvi

DALIA LEINART

Preface xviii

PART I

Theoretical, political, and legal framework for responding to gender-based violence 1

1 A feminist approach to gender-based violence: the role of the objectification and sexualisation of women 3

SANDRA AMANKAVIIT AND MONIKA ŽALNIERIT

2 Failed hegemonic masculinity, negative emotions, and gender-based violence: theories and elaborations 21

ARTRAS TEREŠKINAS

3 Gender-based violence in international instruments and case law of the European Court of Human Rights 40

AGN LIMANT

4 The Istanbul Convention in the constitutional jurisprudence of Central and Eastern European states 60

DOVIL PRAIT-ANDRIKIEN

PART II

Spotlight on domestic violence 87

5 Approaches to the criminalisation of domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe 89

JOLANTA APOLEVI AND ELBIETA KUZBORSKA-PACHA

6 The changing paradigm in help provision for survivors of intimate partner violence: specialised complex help vs generic social help model 109

ZUZANA VASILIAUSKAIT, LILIJA HENRIKA VASILIAUSK AND EVELINA DIRMOTAIT

7 Rethinking work with intimate partner perpetrators: new prospects for the successful implementation of batterer intervention programmes in Lithuania 128

RTA VAIINIEN AND ILONA MICHAILOVI

8 The economic empowerment of women as a factor contributing to the prevention of domestic violence 150

JOLANTA APOLEVI

9 Gender-based violence against women with disabilities 168

ROKAS USCILA AND DOVIL JUODKAIT

PART III

Gender-based violence in public spaces 187

10 Sexual harassment in the workplace in Lithuania: what does the silence say? 189

KRISTINA AMBRAZEVIIT

11 What makes academia (un)safe: experiences, observations, and consequences of gender-based violence in different stages of individual researchers' careers 206

VILANA PILINKAIT SOTIROVI AND GIEDR BLAŽYT

12 Gender-based violence online: cyberstalking overview in Lithuania 233

LIUBOV JARUTIEN, ILONA MICHAILOVI AND ILONA LAURINAITYT

Index 255