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

Art¿ras 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.

R¿ta Vai¿i¿nien¿ 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 AMANKAVI¿I¿T¿ AND MONIKA ŽALNIERI¿T¿

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

ART¿RAS 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¿ P¿RAIT¿-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 EL¿BIETA 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

R¿TA VAI¿I¿NIEN¿ 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 AMBRAZEVI¿I¿T¿

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