Louise Platt is Senior Lecturer in Festival and Events Management at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rebecca Finkel is Reader in Events Management at Queen Margaret University and Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy.

1. Gendered violence at international festivals: An interdisciplinary perspective. 2. Analysis of the response of the feminist movement and institutional feminism to gender violence in local festivals in northern Spain: The case of the Basque Country. 3. Fiestas, public space, and rape culture: A study of the "Wolf Pack" case. 4. Sexual violence in Nigerian MusiCultural Festivals: Narratives of the unheard victims. 5. Between patriarchy and capitalism: The gendered violence of Intwasa International Arts Festival, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. 6. Gender, transgression, and sexual violence at Australian Music Festivals. 7. Conceptualising safety and crime at UK music festivals: A gendered analysis. 8. Gender-based violence amongst music festival employees. 9. Structural disputes: An analysis of infrastructural inequalities in the case study of the Women of the World Festival in Hull (UK) City of Culture 2017. 10. The Green Wave! Resistance in festivals as part of the women empowerment process in Argentina. 11. The polite cowboy or the wild, wild west: Strategic approaches to reducing gender-based rodeo violence through grassroots civic mobilisation.

Gendered Violence at International Festivals is a ground-breaking collection that focuses on this highly important social issue for the first time. The book contests the widely-held notion that festivals are temporal spaces free from structural sexism, inequalities, or gender power dynamics.