Introduction to ‘Gender, Sexuality, and State Violence: International Perspectives on Institutional and Intersectional Justice’

This volume contains articles that address gender- and sexuality-based state violence in Iran, Ireland, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Turkey. As guest editors of this Special Issue, we deliberately aimed to invite contributions from authors and different regions from around the world, and while we are beyond delighted by the wide scope of topics and contexts that our contributors bring to the fore in this Special Issue, we also (self)critically take note of the fact that our volume still exhibits (a) an overrepresentation of Europe as a site of study and (b) an underrepresentation of both authors and case studies from many regions in the Global South, most notably from the African continent.