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Abstract
The recent decree law on femicide was born in a climate, especially media, in which violence against women is read as an “emergency”. This key to the phenomenon presents some risks: firstly, that of reproposing a model of public intervention focused mainly on the repressive approach. The decree assigns, in fact, a residual value to a strategy to support the prevention and assistance of victims of violence, currently referred to a “Extraordinary Action Plan” for which no funding is foreseen. It’s time to get out of the emergency logic: the issue of gender-based violence is not just a matter of public order. It is a phenomenon that strikes the heart the rewriting of the rules on coexistence between genders started in the last century. What is needed is a new moment of elaboration of women’s theories and practices on the role of the legal system and on the most appropriate forms to guarantee women’s freedom.