“How to Kill a Woman in the Real and in Art: Violence against Women in Fiction and “Non-Fiction”“

Centuries of women dying −both literally and metaphorically− are explored as another form of silencing and erasure serving to enforce patriarchal values. Literally, this existed in rituals relating to women, such as the act of suttee, and witch burning; striking a harsh contrast with the way women’s deaths are presented in art (tragedy).

With the eradication of these rituals (officially, at least), a woman’s physical death is replaced by her soul death, killing her from the inside out. Women can receive violence and be killed with words, paint, and film scenes, as much as with physical means. Violence is multifaceted, fictional and non-fictional, direct and indirect. 

PhD in Philosophy from a co-supervision between the Universities of Klagenfurt (Austria) and Toulouse -Jean Jaurès (France), with a Thesis entitled “Life as Addiction“. She has since held a visiting postdoctoral position at the University of Fort Hare, specializing in African Phenomenology, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) on a project of her own design, on “Ontological Exhaustion“. Master’s Degree (Edinburgh) in Film Studies and a Diploma in Digital Filmmaking (SAE, Athens) and has worked for years in the filmmaking industry. Master’s in Ancient Philosophy (Edinburgh), a Degree in Philosophy (Cyprus), and various other postgraduate diplomas in Austria and France on Gender Studies, Psychoanalysis, Addictions, and Philosophy of Psychiatry. Free Auditor at EHESS for two years. Her research interests are wide and include various historical periods of philosophy, and different areas such as Ontology, Phenomenology, Feminism, Aesthetics (esp. aesthetics of philosophical style) and other. Her core thinking and research concepts can be summarized as curiosity, creativity, originality, and interdisciplinarity.