This student watched Violence Against Women – It’s a Men’s Issue, Why We Do What We Do, and How to Speak so People Want to Listen. 2. Violence Against Women – It’s a Men’s Issue by Jackson Katz is the video of choice. 3. Katz argues that gender violence is everyone’s issue, not just one for women.…
Institutional violence is certainly more than just violence against women; however, violence against women is a huge part of institutionalized violence. In general we can define institutional violence as violence that comes out of the very institutions that underlie our modern society (can it be modern at all with institutional violence?) and will be most evident in interactions between the rich and poor. Harriet Hyman Alonso identifies “... the connection made between institutionalized violence and violence against women...” (Alonso 8) as a central theme of feminist peace movements. Let’s explore some ways in which violence against women is a key element of how institutional violence…
The article “Violence against Women” by Susana T. Fried argues that over recent decades there has been an extreme change regarding public view and opinion about violence against women to make it unlawful but still remains socially acceptable. Fried explores worldwide gender-based violence, its attempts at progress and the work still needed to be done to move forward toward human rights for all women. Fried analyzes data in order to understand the magnitude of gender-based violence around the world. According to Fried (2003), reports from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) say that 1 out of every 3 women in the world, has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in her lifetime.…
1. Johnson, Michael P. Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law: Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence. Northeastern UP, 2008. 174. Print.…
Therefore, to address the root causes of violence against women one must explore in-depth these colonial practices, which are formed by other “dimension of their identities, such as race and class” and women social experiences and relationships (Crenshaw, 1991). Race, class and gender are interlocking experiences, which affects all aspects of a person’s life. In addition, social institutions, policies, and norms increase the vulnerability of women to violence and threaten their ability to obtain basic human rights. Gender violence will be used interchangeably with sexual and domestic violence throughout this piece to show how the dominant culture with strong patriarchal outlooks that…
Militant groups like Boko Haram are targeting women in their war against western education and human rights. Because of this war on women, gains made for gender equality have been undermined. Groups like Women Human Rights Defenders have specifically been targeted recently as they attempt to continue to fight for equality and human rights. While Boko Haram has hurt and killed thousands of people, Violent Extremist Groups Take Special Aimed at Women, U.N. Official Says focuses more on how women are affected specifically. The author goes into detail about specific attacks against women like the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping and the fact that women in areas claimed by Boko Haram are often raped or forced into sex slavery.…
The central themes throughout these short essays are inequality between genders, violence against women—both sexually and physically—and women…
There is an almost universal archetype the International Community employs regarding the role women play in atrocities such as genocide, with this archetype women are as solely victims and almost never perpetrators. The lack of punishment for female perpetrators is often a result of gender bias, women who do find themselves defending against a charge utilize this gender narrative to escape punishment, which is usually successful. The reaction concerning female perpetrators of genocide whether to castigate them or excuse them, is often in relation to motherhood. The role of women is often reduced to that of a mother, as any other role concerning a women in many parts of the world even today cannot be possible.…
Throughout the years, women have been stereotyped as weak, vulnerable, and unable to succeed. Sexism has played a major role in the lives of many women leading them to domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. Even women in pop culture are being targeted on a daily bases just for their sex. Luckily Breakthrough, a Non-Government Organization, helps to end the violence and discrimination against women of all ages. Breakthrough has many ways to help females, who feel as if they are alone, to overcome their disturbances that they face daily.…
From 1848 to 1920, there was movement organization by women, because of the lack of equality among the women. During this time, women were treated as another race than a gender, or sex. This movement known as Women’s Rights Movement is the reason that women started reaching equal treatment between the workforce and government. Although there was a Women’s Rights Movement, there are issues that still have not been address. These issues are dealing with women’s economics, leadership, education, safety, etc.…
L (2013), Why abused women stay in bad relationships; Retrieved August 16, 2014, from http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/10/opinion/steiner-domestic-violence This source documents research on females whom stayed in an abusive relationship fearing of retaliation or in a hope of changing the abusing partner. The research shows the complications to the situations, particularly how a woman who’s being abused still tries to maintain a positive image to the world about their relationship. Some of the women who attempted leaving the relationship ended up with no societal support, or worse yet, died. This article gains credibility from its’ author Leslie Steiner.…
A woman was required to be obedient to her husband and submit to him no matter the circumstances. In an environment like such, a breeding ground for abuse was created. Stories of the abuse of women in Afghanistan speak volumes to the abuse they endure. In an article written by Bethany Matta for Al Jazeera, writes of a woman who was beaten by her husband accompanied by his family members on multiple occasions. The woman, Sadie states the family would tell her “You’re all alone, scream as loud as you want, there is no one here to hear you.”…
In many cases, women struggle with inequality and oppression because the government lack enforcement to protect them. In Iran as well as Nigeria, the government focuses on other elements such as economic growth rather than protection of women. The lack of government support and protection affects the inequality that women faces. With no protection against violence and oppression faced by women, it makes women extremely vulnerable in society. In some cases, the government takes an even detrimental step, and attacks women who do speak up about the inequalities.…
Uganda has a very different culture and its ways of life have stranded from thousands of years of growth. Uganda’s culture has molded off of what its ancestor has built it into. One of the negative aspects of the Uganda way is where a payment is made to the parents of the bride prior to marriage, the husband assumes to own his wife as his property. Because of this, the women of Uganda are treated very badly. We know that laws are different in some countries, one to be particular is the law about rape in Uganda.…
Chandra Mohanty, writer of “Under the Western Eyes,” tries to challenge the traditional “Western feminist” discourse on women in the third world. Mohanty’s purpose is not to question the knowledge and value of Western feminist writings on women in the third world, but to uncover ethnocentric universalism (presuppositions and implicit principles). She claims that women in the third world are portrayed as sharing a homogeneous oppression. Instead, she asks Western feminists to take into account the complex interaction between social, economic, class, religion, culture, etc. frameworks before describing women in the third world. Mohanty states that ignoring these frameworks creates the false assumption of women in the third world as an always…