This chapter addresses the concept of disembodiment and its impact on understanding gender-based violence. Several forms of disembodiment are taken into account, in order to show how some of them are triggered and worsened by the assimilation of hegemonic narratives dictating expectations for ‘specific’ bodies. To further explore the topic of social conventions related to corporeity, the notion of gender performativity is investigated, and then paralleled to Chomsky’s linguistic model that contrasts competence and performance. This theoretical synthesis seeks to frame gender performativity as a departure from the rules imposed by a normative system, namely, patriarchy. Moreover, it enables to introduce two paradoxical examples of adherence to/divergence from the paternalistic paradigm: the figure of the tradwife and the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK). Through a historical analysis of the events involving the WKKK and a comparison with the more recent phenomenon of the #tradwives movement, the study sheds light on the actual and potential pitfalls of complying with a Victorian conception of womanhood. Particular emphasis is placed on the self-identification with the symbol of the home, insofar as it is a byproduct of a gendered understanding of space that, in turn, is correlated with specific forms of gender-based violence. Instances of this kind of violence and their geographical underpinnings are laid out in the second half of the chapter, where an intersectional approach to the issue of gender-based violence is also advocated for and outlined.