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Ressenya: Pilar Godayol i Annarita Taronna, eds. 2018. Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and Francoism. Gender, Translation and Censorship. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 217 p.

"Gendered and sexualized abuse and other forms of violence are visibly present in the culture of the third millennium. Especially bodies that are gendered as female are – both dead and alive – objects of multiple forms of abuse and violence in the texts and imageries of contemporary culture. Men, on the other hand, are often represented as abusive towards women and as the violent gender or, as targets of other men's violence. Structural violence has also an impact on many areas of everyday life, and it is materialized in, for example discrimination and inequality. Gender and Violence: The Ethics and Politics of Reading scrutinizes gendered violence as a complex phenomenon of contemporary culture. The authors study the ways in which ways representations of violence can be read, viewed and received. They also discuss what kind of politics the violent representations implement and actualize, and how they affect their audience.
Gender and Violence takes a critical stance on the intersections of gender, power, and violence in literature, film, television and the internet. The analysis focuses on, for example, sci-fi, Nordic Noir and North American comedy series, poems, young adult literature (YA) and nationalist blog texts. The book presents both Finnish and international academic discussions, in which researchers in the fields of gender studies, arts and literature, and cultural studies challenge contemporary English abstract 279 understanding of gender, sexuality, power, and violence. Moreover, Gender and Violence provides tools for critical discussions on violence and in-depth scrutiny about its cost on all of us.
Gender and Violence is an anthology of academic research articles. It works well as an academic textbook, but it also provides timely and new knowledge for everyone interested in questions of gender and violence – phenomena that touch upon all of us."

Discurs de presentació a la signatura del conveni Generalitat-universitats per a víctimes de violència de gènere, pronunciat pel rector de la UOC, Josep A. Planell al Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona. ; Discurso de presentación en la firma del convenio Generalitat-universidades para víctimas de violencia de género, pronunciado por el rector de la UOC, Josep A. Planell en el Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona. ; Opening speech of the UOC at the signing of the Government of Catalonia¿Universities agreement for the victims of gender-based violence, held by the president, Josep A. Planell at Palau de la Generalitat, Barcelona.

The book explores the discourses of modernism, contemporary art and art history writing as well as their interdisciplinary values and boundaries – and cases that do not fit within these boundaries.The articles explore the meanings of junk and relics, high art, design, and the intimate experience of art and public criticism. The themes explored in the book expand our views on the queer potential of colour, the meaning of detail, and the relationships between visual art and writing.
The fourteen peer-reviewed case studies in the volume offer new insights from the fields of visual cultural studies, art history and gender studies. The articles in the anthology do not rely strictly on disciplinary boundaries but also open themselves up to broader fields of culture.

The topic of the book is the incremental growth of linguistic knowledge from lexical to structural-cum-textual during the so-called later language development. Language mastery does not presuppose any acquaintance with prescriptive grammar but, instead, concerns the core of language which the so-called consensus principle applies to: the most frequent words and structures are mastered with certainty by everybody, but uncertainty increases as less frequent and more variable phenomena are taken into consideration. It is the goal of the study to make explicit the knowledge that is common to school children of different age groups, and to show how it develops both in its core and in its fringe areas. The mastery of less common aspects exhibits considerable statistical variation. The research embodies methodological pluralism insofar as it has been carried out by means both of the corpus method and the experimental method. Here experimental subsumes writing tasks, paper-and-pencil tests, and behavior under experimental conditions. The amount of participants native in Finnish varies from 300–2000. The book has a bipartite structure: mastery of meanings (Part I), and mastery of forms (Part II).

Les dades publicades per l'Institut Nacional d'Estadística (INE) mostren que, des de 2011, hi ha una forta estabilitat en la xifra de divorcis -situada al voltant dels 100 mil anuals, en la meitat dels quals hi ha fills/es menors d'edat-, mentre que es dóna un notable increment de la custòdia compartida, en detriment del paradigma anterior de custòdia exclusiva de la mare amb un règim de visites pel pare. Entre 2011 i 2016, la custòdia compartida ha passat del 12% al 28% dels divorcis amb fills/es menors. Aquest creixement, liderat per les comunitats autònomes que tenen una legislació favorable, reflecteix canvis socials de més llarg abast relacionats amb la igualtat de gènere dins i fora de la llar. L'anàlisi de les sèries de l'INE, sumat a la inèdita explotació de totes les sentències de divorci i ruptures de parelles de fet dels jutjats de família de la ciutat de Barcelona de l'any 2014 -5.894 sentències-, mostren que la custòdia compartida pactada significa, si més no sobre el paper, equitat entre el pare i la mare, tant pel que fa a la residència alternada dels infants com a la participació en les seves despeses. Vist això, ens podem preguntar si seria útil atorgar per defecte la custòdia compartida dels fills després de la separació dels progenitors. La resposta no pot ser més clara: No. La custòdia compartida hauria de provenir d'un pacte que reflectís una pràctica anterior de coparentalitat en equitat, que a dia d'avui encara no és pas majoritària. ; Los datos publicados por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) indican que desde 2011 ha habido una gran estabilidad en la cifra de divorcios: en torno a los 100 mil anuales, la mitad de los cuales con hijos/as menores de edad. Sin embargo, en el mismo período se ha producido un notable incremento de la custodia compartida en detrimento del paradigma anterior de custodia exclusiva de la madre con un régimen de visitas para el padre. Así, entre 2011 y 2016, la custodia compartida ha pasado del 12% al 28% de los divorcios con hijos/as menores. Este crecimiento, liderado por las comunidades autónomas que tienen una legislación favorable al respecto, refleja cambios sociales de mayor alcance relacionados con la igualdad de género dentro y fuera del hogar. El análisis de las series del INE, sumado a un estudio inédito de todas las sentencias de divorcio y también de las rupturas de parejas de hecho no incluidas en las estadísticas del INE de los juzgados de familia de la ciudad de Barcelona del año 2014 -5.894 sentencias-, ilustran que la custodia compartida pactada significa, al menos sobre el papel, equidad entre el padre y la madre, tanto en el cuidado de los niños/as (residencia alternada) como en la participación en sus gastos. A partir de estos resultados, cabe preguntarse si sería adecuado tras la separación de los progenitores otorgar por defecto la custodia compartida de los hijos/as. La respuesta no puede ser más clara: No. La custodia compartida debería ser la secuencia lógica de un pacto que reflejara una práctica anterior a la ruptura de coparentalidad en equidad, la cual a día de hoy todavía no es mayoritaria. ; Data published by the National Statistics Institute (INE in the Spanish acronym) show that, since 2011, the figures for divorces are remarkably stable at around 100,000 every year with half of them involving offspring who are still minors. However, there has been a notable spike in shared custody to the detriment of the earlier paradigm of the mother having exclusive custody and the father visitation rights. Between 2011 and 2016 the figure for joint custody rose from 12% to 28% of divorces where minors are involved. This increase, led by the autonomous regions of Spain with favourable legislation, reflects social changes of a broader scope embracing gender equality within and outside the home. Analysis of the INE series, in addition to work on all 5,894 never-previously-explored divorce and separation (for de facto couples) settlements from the family courts of the city of Barcelona, shows that shared custody means, at least on paper, equity between father and mother, both with regard to alternating residence of the children and also sharing child-related costs. Given this situation, one might ask whether it might be a good idea to grant joint custody by default after the parents have separated. The answer is a resounding no. Joint custody should be the result of an agreement that reflects prior co-parenting practice in equality, and this is far from being a majority situation nowadays.