Greece’s Gender Divide: Femicide Through the Lens

Afroditi Koulaxi is a Lecturer at Regent’s University London. Her research explores identity and migration at the intersection of sociology, urban studies, and media and communications. Recent work includes an exploration of digital culture and gender, examining how femicides are represented in media narratives and emphasising the intersections of race, class, and gender in shaping public discourse on lethal violence. She is the author of Citizenship in Crisis in Athens: Migration, Media and Identity.

Betty Iliadou is a former judge, author, and advocate for human rights and women’s empowerment. A graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a postgraduate degree in Criminal Law and Criminology, she served in the Greek Judiciary for more than three decades. Now based in London, she is actively engaged in writing, social initiatives, and community leadership. Her academic and professional development includes studies in child protection, human trafficking, data protection, and human rights through programmes affiliated with Harvard University, UCL, and Amnesty International. She is also the founder of the Greek Female Society and author of The Vagina Chronicles. 

Dr. Tonia Kazakopoulou is a lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Reading. Her research interests include women’s cinema of small nations, and particularly of Greece; contemporary European and world cinemas; the politics of representation in film and television. She has been the curator of the international standing conference Contemporary Greek Film Cultures, and she has also published on women’s cinema, on Greek women screenwriters, on contemporary Greek cinema and motherhood, as well as on the female characters in Yorgos Lanthimos’ films. Tonia’s edited volume Women and Violence in Greek Cinema is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press (2027).