Iranian women

According to the Canadian statistics, females have reported frequent and severe spousal violence including, sexual assault, being choked or threatened with a gun by their partner compared to males. Domestic violence is a crime, observed worldwide and is mostly treated as a hidden crime because the victim does not speak against the perpetrator. Unfortunately, domestic violence is more frequent in other parts of the world compared to Canada. “In My Year of Meats”, Ruth Ozeki addresses this issue…

secondary and tertiary levels of violence prevention. Intimate partner violence affects millions of Americans and occurs among all types of relationships, including heterosexual and gay and lesbian couples. According to the CDC, "approximately 27.3% of women and 11.5% of men in the United States have experienced…

OPINION PIECE Last month, my grandmother was travelling by train on the way home after meeting up with a group of friends. That day, though, will be a day that will traumatise her up to this present day. As she was standing up from her seat, a man assaulted her; he shoved her onto the floor, bit her and kicked her. Now, whilst her trembling bruised body will gradually relearn to sit up and her swollen face will learn to eat normal food again, she cannot shake away the memories from that day.…

article, “Women in Harperland: A Critical Look at Gender Inequality in Canada Since 2006”, Brianna Strumm takes an in-depth look at gender prejudice throughout Canada since Stephen Harper, past Conservative Prime Minister was elected into Canada’s government in 2006. The Author expresses her concern by distinctively listing the many lacks of Harpers involvement in gender inequality through the wage gap, investments in social infrastructure and the disturbing amount of violence towards women.…

All through history, women of color have faced racism and prejudice. In the early 1900s, women were treated as slaves to their husbands and fathers. Many were raped by family members or people they were close with, leading to unhealthy mindsets and difficulty forming further relationships. Women would turn to eachother for comfort and support in these terrifying times. These are actions that were present during the time the novel was written, and still today. Alice Walker uses her childhood and…

Violence, an integral part of modern society, constitutes the lives of individuals that lead to reactions in the sociological perspective. In terms of sociology, violence grasps the control one’s realities. Sociological impact of violence is so intertwined with side factors that individual get derailed in conducts transforming personalities, emotions, thoughts, world views. This study deals with violence in the sociological view and its implications as depicted in Conrad’s The Secret Agent.…

Violence can be described as the intent to hurt or damage something or someone, which can be done in a number of ways. The group of writings that I chose was under the title of “Cultures of Violence”, and I believe that this heading efficaciously describes the two essays within it. On War by James Boswell, and The Paranoid Style of American Policing by Ta-Nehisi Coates, each tell their thoughts on violence and how they view it within different areas of today’s society. However, I feel that On…

Dynamics of Domestic Violence Domestic violence, also know as intimate partner violence, includes physical, psychological, and financial harm caused in an intimate partnership (Wallace & Roberson, 2015). The Clifford Burns case is a tragic example of domestic violence and demonstrates Lenore Walker’s cycle theory of violence. The theory attempts to explain the pattern of abuse involved in domestic violence (Wallace & Roberson, 2015). According to Wallace and Roberson (2014), there are three…

violence in Australia, I found some shocking statistics. Results from the Australian Statistics on Domestic Violence find that: 23% of women who had ever been married or in a de-facto relationship, experienced violence by a partner at some time during the relationship 42% of women who had been in a previous relationship reported violence by a previous partner 
 35% of women who experienced violence from their partner during periods of separation (ABS 1996, p. 57). 
 One recent New South Wales…

Summary This study seeks to investigate instances of family violence against women in rural East Central Saskatchewan, Canada and to assess need for services and support. The researchers claim that violence in this region is suffered in significant numbers and draw attention to the fact that rural living isolates women from support services such as social services and counseling. The article attributes many women staying in abusive situations for years to lack of access to these services,…