The Bounded Limitlessness of Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: The Implications for Women and Gender-Sexual Relations

Matthew  Hall; Ruth Lewis; Jeff Hearn

doi:10.1177/10778012241292293

The Bounded Limitlessness of Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: The Implications for Women and Gender-Sexual Relations

Matthew Hall, Ruth Lewis, Jeff Hearn

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Developments in digital technologies might provide limitless ways to reshape humanity’s very existence, but also open up, what we term “bounded limitless” opportunities for digital gender-sexual violations (DGSV). That is, “limitless” opportunities for men to sexually violate women within the inherent “boundedness” of digital technological infrastructures and architectures. Building on the existing interdisciplinary feminist scholarship we explore the gendered disbenefits, specifically some of the ways in which digital technologies provide men with “bounded limitless” opportunities to perpetrate DGSV in physical and virtual times and spaces, and the implications for women, their bodies, and gender-sexual relations more broadly.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	88-109
Number of pages	22
Journal	Violence Against Women
Volume	32
Issue number	1
Early online date	25 Oct 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241292293
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2026

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