Call for Chapters | Gendered Violence in the Age of Generative AI: Power, Harm, and Governance in Digital Societies | Submit Proposal by 12 August 2026
Generative artificial intelligence has transformed the landscape of gendered violence in ways that extend far beyond the emergence of new technologies. While public discussions frequently focus on deepfake pornography, synthetic imagery, and AI-generated harassment as isolated phenomena, these developments are more accurately understood as part of a broader transformation in the production, circulation, and experience of harm. Generative AI has enabled gendered violence to become increasingly scalable, networked, automated, and participatory, allowing harms that were once limited by human effort and technical expertise to be replicated, disseminated, and normalized across digital environments at unprecedented speed and scale.
This edited volume examines how AI-driven forms of abuse reshape existing structures of inequality while simultaneously creating new conditions through which violence is enacted. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a neutral technological tool or a disruptive innovation operating independently of social contexts, the collection situates AI-generated harms within broader systems of gendered power, institutional practices, platform governance, and digital economies. In doing so, it shifts attention away from technology itself and toward the social, legal, political, and cultural environments that enable such harms to emerge and flourish.
The volume begins from the premise that contemporary gendered violence can no longer be understood solely as an interpersonal act committed by one individual against another. Instead, generative AI has facilitated forms of violence that are distributed across networks of users, platforms, algorithms, institutions, and technological infrastructures. Harm is increasingly produced through interactions between automated systems, platform architectures, online communities, and regulatory failures. The result is a transformation of violence from a largely individualized phenomenon into one that is collectively generated, amplified, and sustained through digital ecosystems.
The collection therefore explores how everyday sites including schools, universities, workplaces, social media platforms, legal institutions, and governance structures become implicated in the production, normalization, regulation, and contestation of AI-driven gendered harm. These spaces are not merely locations where harms occur; they are active participants in shaping the conditions under which such harms become possible. By examining the intersection between emerging technologies and enduring structures of inequality, the volume seeks to reveal how artificial intelligence reproduces, intensifies, and reconfigures existing forms of gendered domination.
Central to the book is the recognition that contemporary debates frequently frame AI-generated harms as problems of technological misuse. Such approaches often prioritize technical solutions, content moderation tools, and criminalization strategies while overlooking the broader social relations that underpin violence. This collection argues that understanding AI-enabled abuse requires moving beyond questions of technological functionality toward analyses of power, accountability, institutional responsibility, and governance. The volume therefore interrogates the adequacy of existing legal frameworks, regulatory mechanisms, and rights-based approaches in responding to rapidly evolving forms of digital harm. It also engages with emerging rights-based and governance approaches to assess how existing legal and normative frameworks respond to the evolving nature of AI-driven gendered harm.
The book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from law, sociology, criminology, gender studies, media studies, psychology, technology studies, and public policy. Contributors examine both the mechanisms through which AI-generated harms are produced and the institutional responses developed to address them. Particular attention is given to questions of accountability, platform governance, digital rights, privacy, consent, surveillance, algorithmic power, and the limitations of existing regulatory frameworks.
By combining conceptual, empirical, and policy-oriented analyses, the volume seeks to move beyond descriptive accounts of technological abuse. Instead, it offers a structured and critical examination of how generative AI is transforming the nature of gender-based violence and what these transformations reveal about contemporary systems of governance, regulation, and social power. In doing so, the collection provides an important platform for rethinking digital harm and its implications for law, society, and the future regulation of emerging technologies.
The volume seeks to:
Although growing scholarship examines artificial intelligence, deepfakes, online abuse, and platform governance, much of this literature remains fragmented. Existing studies often focus on individual technologies, isolated incidents, or specific legal responses. As a result, there is limited understanding of how generative AI is reshaping the broader ecology of gendered violence.
This volume addresses that gap by treating AI-generated harms not as exceptional technological problems but as manifestations of deeper social and institutional processes. It brings together scholarship that examines how violence is produced through interactions between technological systems, governance structures, digital platforms, and existing inequalities.
The collection therefore contributes to emerging debates concerning technology-facilitated violence, digital governance, human rights, platform accountability, and the future regulation of artificial intelligence.
Part IV: Law, Regulation, and Accountability
The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in law, criminology, sociology, gender studies, media studies, technology studies, public policy, and human rights. It will also be valuable for policymakers, regulators, legal practitioners, technology developers, civil society organisations, and international bodies seeking to understand and respond to the growing challenges posed by AI-enabled gendered violence.
The central contribution of this volume lies in its reconceptualisation of AI-enabled abuse as a structural and institutional phenomenon rather than merely a technological problem. By locating synthetic media within broader systems of power, governance, and inequality, the collection offers a new framework for understanding contemporary digital harm and its implications for law, society, and future technological governance.
Rather than asking what artificial intelligence does to violence, the volume asks how artificial intelligence transforms the social conditions through which violence is produced, experienced, and governed. This shift in perspective provides the foundation for a more comprehensive understanding of gendered harm in the age of synthetic media.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 12, 2026, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by August 26, 2026 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters of a minimum of 10,000 words (word count includes references and related readings) are expected to be submitted by November 25, 2026, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
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Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Gendered Violence in the Age of Generative AI. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.
All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.
August 12, 2026: Proposal Submission Deadline
August 26, 2026: Notification of Acceptance
November 25, 2026: Full Chapter Submission
January 27, 2027: Review Results Returned
March 10, 2027: Final Acceptance Notification
March 24, 2027: Final Chapter Submission
Sara Balkh, United Nation Association of Orange County, United States
Amit Anand, St. Joseph’s College of Law, India
Sofia Khatun, Adamas University, India
Enquiries: anandamit.12@gmail.com
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