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Suryani, Riri Irma, Dwi Candra Purnamasari, and Gusnita Linda. "Preventing Sexual Violence Against Women Through the Short Film 'Demi Nama Baik?'." Ultimart: Jurnal Komunikasi Visual 16, no. 2 (December 28, 2023): 226–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31937/ultimart.v16i2.3436.
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Sexual violence cannot be ignored. Sexual violence can happen to anyone, be it children, teenagers, adults, men or women. One of the things that can be done to prevent sexual violence can be done using film media. The production of a short film with the title “Demi Nama Baik?” with the hashtag #Don’t Just Shut Up” is a film that tells the assertiveness of the campus in taking action against perpetrators of sexual violence. This research method uses a descriptive qualitative method approach with the concept of fiction film design. The making of this film aims to influence other campuses out there in the process of cracking down on cases of sexual violence that occur within the scope of higher education. This film aims to influence other universities in handling cases of sexual violence on their campuses.
Keywords: short film; film; production; sexual violence.
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Memola, Giovanni. "Visto, si stupri. Sesso e terrore nelle immagini di violenza sulle donne nel cinema italiano degli anni Settanta, tra finzione e realtà." Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia 6, no. 11 (July 22, 2022): 93–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2532-2486/17302.
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In the 1970s, Italian cinema experienced a boom of images and narrative elements associated with acts of violence against women, which were often further combined with sex. Such a phenomenon characterized domestic film production to a very large extent, therefore beyond budget and marketing implications, as well as auteur ambitions. In this context, the mystery-thriller films of the so-called “giallo” established a peculiar relation with violence against women at large, as they encoded it in the narrative mechanisms and in the development of the genre itself by means of subject-related marketing strategies and audience expectations. Quickly brought to popularity in the wake of Dario Argento’s works, over the years the “giallo” has been widely investigated precisely on the grounds of its defining featuring of violence against women, with most outcomes interpreting its psychological and allegorical aspects against the background of Italy’s contemporaneous social history. The aim of this essay is to enrich the interpretation field on this subject, prompting a reflection on such images and imagery of violence in the light of what were the practices, beliefs and expectations about violence against women beyond fiction, in the everyday life of 1970s Italy.
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Reinola, Kirsi. "Violence against women in contemporary Finnish audio-visual fiction: The decision-making process." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 12, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jsca_00072_1.
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Violence against women (VAW) in Finnish audio-visual fiction had a significant peak in 2018. The article examines the financiers’ and filmmakers’ decision-making processes that resulted in scenes containing brutal VAW in Finnish TV series and films. Were the decisions rational or emotional, and were these different decision modes separable? The article draws from a study based on two sets of data: first, sequences from Finnish films and TV series that portray VAW, and second, interviews and questionnaire responses from the makers of these scenes covering various stages in the film and TV productions. The results provide insights into the themes of identification, empathy and the normalization of filmic violence, pose a question about the demand for brutalization in AV productions and give suggestions for future research in audio-visual decision-making.
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Zabihzadeh, Seyedeh Robabeh. "Engendered Violence Against Afghan Women in Atiq Rahimi’s A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear." English Language and Literature Studies 10, no. 2 (April 27, 2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v10n2p57.
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The universal concern of domestic violence against women in its various manifestations came to the center of scholarly attention due to its harmful effects and consequences on the lives of thousands of women worldwide. This umbrella term that refers to any form of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse against women is the result of gender-based power imbalance and sexist inequalities in societies where patriarchal norms hold sway. However, the enormity and severity of the problem is more profound in third-world countries where governing policies are determined by traditional and religious doctrines. Afghanistan is one such third-world country where woman’s oppression and abuse originate from the reigning religious principles that dominate its culture, society and politics. Nevertheless, there is a recent trend among literary figures of the Afghan Diaspora in highlighting the plight of Afghan women in Afghanistan through the medium of fiction. This paper therefore intends to investigate the manifestations of domestic violence against women in the Afghan context through a reading of Atiq Rahim’s novella, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear (2007). Rahimi’s novella narrates the story of a male protagonist named Farhad and simultaneously highlights the miserable living conditions of the Afghan people, particularly the lives of Afghan women during the turbulent period of the Soviet Invasion as well as the many internal political upheavals that followed soon after. Using feminist literary criticism, the present paper shall discuss the depictions of three prominent forms of domestic violence against women as experienced by the female characters in the novella, namely physical, sexual and psychological violence that have shaped them into oppressed, silenced and traumatized individuals.
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Wulandari, Sovia, and Anggi Triandana. "Social protest style in the novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam by Dian Purnomo: stylistic studies." BAHASTRA 42, no. 2 (October 30, 2022): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.26555/bs.v42i2.232.
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This study aims to examine and describe Dian Purnomo's authorship style in the novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam (PMBH) based on symbols of sexual violence against women. The use of diction, sentence style, and imagery is examined using stylistic analysis. The results of this study indicate that there are three stylistic forms, namely diction, sentence style, and imagery. Based on the results of this study, it is stated that Dian Purnomo's authorship style in the PMBH novel is in the style of Proletarian Fiction (Social Protest Fiction). Dian Purnomo, through this novel, reveals the reality that is happening in the Sumba community regarding the Marriage Catch tradition. In this tradition, many women are victims of sexual violence and hatred. Dian Purnomo prohibits protests customary rules and rulers.
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Latifa, Imma, Elina Nurrohmah, Ririn Aminarsih, and Refti Handini Listyani. "Gender Discrimination in the Novel Renjana by El Alicia." Forum Ilmu Sosial 49, no. 2 (December 28, 2022): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/fis.v49i2.40452.
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Literary work is a creation of creative work. One of the functions of literature is as a medium to manifest human life through language. In other words, literature is a reflection of society. Gender inequality has always been an interesting issue because patriarchal culture is still deeply rooted in the Indonesian community. The superiority and domination of men over women are also frequently mentioned and criticized through works of fiction and non-fiction found in films and novels. Especially in books both explicitly and implicitly allude to and review gender issues, as in El Alicia's Renjana novel. This research is a type of qualitative research. This research analyzes gender discrimination in the book Renjana by El Alicia. The analytical method used is discourse analysis from Sara Mills. The result shows that gender discrimination appears in El Alicia's Renjana novel. Including stereotypes, marginalization, violence, and subordination. Explicitly, the definition of stereotypes against women as voiceless creatures whose often opinions ignored in several quotes in the novel. The marginalization of women's illustration shows in the rules that bind the Gentala character as the main character. Meanwhile, the manifestation of violence against women is the domination of male characters who show superiority and power over women, as in one of the scenes of violence that Bestari experienced when he refused to serve Sang Wiyasa. Subordination with women shows in this novel, where often women's voices are ignored in discussions.
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Edith, Nabasa, Ainembabazi Earnest B, Gideon Too Kiplagat, Nantale Hadijja, and Niwagaba Tarcis. "A Feminist Critique of Women Portrayal in NGUGI WA THIONGO’S Devil on the Cross." INOSR ARTS AND HUMANITIES 10, no. 1 (May 29, 2024): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.59298/inosrah/2024/101.1801.
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African American Literature demonstrates that the Black Women's Feminism Caucus acknowledged that black women faced a dual patriarchal oppression from within their own community and from white society. This paper examines how Devil on the Cross portrays a Kikuyu woman striving for liberation and transformative change in Kenyan society. Employing a feminist perspective, the researcher contends that Ngugi Wa Thiong'o illustrates the plight of women in Kenyan society, interpreting feminism within its cultural framework. Building on this foundation, the study advocates for the designation of essential services such as police protection, justice, shelters, helplines, and community support services, ensuring they receive adequate support and resources to operate during pandemics and other public emergencies affecting women and girls. It emphasizes the necessity of involving women and women's civil society organizations in policy formulation, development, and implementation to integrate their knowledge, experiences, and needs into response strategies. Furthermore, it stresses the importance of prioritizing prevention and protection against gender-based and domestic violence in national responses by collecting detailed data on the prevalence of such violence and identifying which demographics of women and girls are most vulnerable. Keywords: Domestic violence, Feminist critique, Fiction, Women emancipation, Women portrayal
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Yaqoob, Munazza. "Narratives of Confession: Religion and Patriarchy in the Fiction of Shahraz and Hosseini." Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 25, no. 2 (December 19, 2018): 01–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.46521/pjws.025.02.0043.
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This paper discusses Khalid Hosseini‘s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns and Qaisra Shahraz‘s novel Typhoon as social commentaries on the socio-cultural oppressive structures both established and perpetuated by patriarchy, and by patriarchal interpretations of religion to subordinate and victimise women in Pakistani and Afghani societies. The paper also examines these texts as narratives of confession, unfolding crimes and injustices as committed in the name of religion and culture against weak and vulnerable members of the society. Both of these narratives, as forms of confession, voice through, not only their female characters but also men, that ‗the sacred‘ is an effective patriarchal apparatus centred on justifying male control and dominance while denying basic human rights to women, thus relegating them to a secondary position. Through a critical examination of centuries-old socio-cultural norms, which have achieved the status of ‗sacred‘ in such societies, these texts reveal various practices of domestic and structural violence through which the sins of injustice, cruelty, oppression and victimisation of women in the name of culture and religion are justified and exercised in daily life. Both Typhoon and A Thousand Splendid Suns, as narratives of confession, document emotional, psychological, physical, sexual and structural violence committed against women and voice resistance against the oppressive social practices of their respective societies. As narratives of confession, these two texts authenticate the truth presented in the form of fiction.
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Huang, Rong, and Xiaotian Jin. "Reproducing and Resisting Sexual Violence: Narrative, Genre, and Power Structure in Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise." Biography 45, no. 4 (2022): 439–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2022.a910379.
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Abstract: In her semi-autobiographical novel Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise , Lin Yihan weaves her own traumatic experience of being sexually abused into a powerful narrative that sheds light on the pervasive acquiescence to violence against women in patriarchal cultures. Focusing on the sociocultural factors behind sexual violence, this article examines certain forms of narrative and literary genre, as revealed in the novel, that can be manipulated by male perpetrators and thus play a complicit role in reproducing crimes. But by blurring the divide between fiction and nonfiction, the reception and massive readership of the novel attest to a sort of narrative solidarity against sexual violence, making it an iconic text of the contemporary feminist movement in East Asia.
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Stringer, Rebecca. "Fact, Fiction and the Foetus: Violence Against Pregnant Women and the Politics of Abortion." Australian Feminist Law Journal 25, no. 1 (December 2006): 99–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2006.10854363.
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Miller, T. S., and Elizabeth Miller. "Tolkien and Rape." Extrapolation: Volume 62, Issue 2 62, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 133–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2021.8.
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s representation of women in his fiction has generated a number of controversies since its original publication. This essay examines two major issues: an evasiveness in Tolkien’s treatment of sexual violence against women that is not disconnected from a gendered terror that underlies several moments in his works and functions to link women’s sexuality and desiring with death. Specifically, we read the author’s depiction of Shelob and her appetitive, arachnoid monstrosity as at once displacing sexual violence onto the monstrous feminine and evoking a revulsion at the aging female body. We next explore the consequences of the author’s depictions of women and his handling of sexual violence in close connection with his own 1939 public performance of Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale, a comic narrative turning on two rapes that Tolkien nevertheless conceals in a comparable fashion to his elision of sexual violence in Middle-earth.
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Sánchez, Irene. "Testimonio teatral de la violencia contra las mujeres en la dictadura argentina: NN 12 de Gracia Morales." Philologica Canariensia, no. 28 (2022) (May 31, 2022): 113–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.20420/phil.can.2022.470.
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This research paper focuses on Hispanic contemporary theatre and the representation of violence against women during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). With this aim, it analysed NN 12 (2008), written by Gracia Morales, which examines the topic of violence perpetrated by the State, especially sexual and obstetric. To demonstrate how theatrical fiction has the capacity of creating new subjectivities based on the historical reality and argue its vindicative capacity, a critique and comparative analysis of the text NN 12 and the spoken and written testimony of women who were tortured and, in most cases, were assassinated during the Argentinian dictatorship was undertaken.
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Manoj Kumar and Prof. V. Ch. N. K. Srinivasa Rao. "Narrating Marginality: Gender Crisis in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror." Creative Launcher 7, no. 6 (December 30, 2022): 171–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.6.19.
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Feminine sensibilities and gender issues are based on different cultures and diasporic essence. The desire and aspirations of women of different countries are not similar. Their demands are influenced by a number of variables, including familial, societal/racial, marital, economic, cultural, and personal ones. It is considered incorrect to compare Indian feminism to western feminism, which is characterised by radical rules, in such a varied culture. In its early stages, Indian feminism was wholly liberal and addressed every facet of mankind. There hasn't been a significant political or social uprising in India against the male-dominated culture. In beginning, they seek to address the inequality and dissimilarity that existed between males and females. They desired to bridge the gaps between men and women through their social revolt and provide the psychological reason for the male violence against women. Some feminist intellectuals extended the gender issues focusing the intention on rape and other forms of sexual violence. To them, such gender issues of exploitation are because of the male dominant society. They agree with Liberal feminists that material change and patriarchy is the sole reason for women's discrimination. They argue against the existing tradition of love, marriage, and gender inequality and demand equal social rights. The women writers like Shashi Deshpande have used fiction to explore and share their experiences. The myriad conflicts, which they face in everyday lives, are woven into the fictional world of their creation. To Shashi Deshpande, traditional beliefs also play a major role in female discrimination.
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Mũrĩithi, Wairimũ. "Fragments Towards an Impossible (Domestic) Genre of the Human in Kenyan Crime Fiction." English in Africa 47, no. 3 (February 10, 2021): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v47i3.6s.
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Extrajudicial executions and other forms of police violence in Kenya have always been an issue of significant concern in local and international media and human rights organisations. Reflective of this, scholarly interest in crime fiction in Kenya has grown significantly in recent years. However, the gendered implications of criminality – from sex work to errant motherhood to alternative modes of investigation – are still largely overlooked in postcolonial literary fiction and criticism. As part of a larger study on how women writers and characters shape crime fiction in Kenya, this paper critically engages with stories that the criminalised woman knows, tells, forgets, incarnates, discards or hides about the city. It does so by examining the history of urban sex workers in Kenya, the representation of ‘urban women’ in postcolonial Kenyan novels and contemporary mainstream media, and the various (post) colonial laws that criminalise sex work. Through Justina, an elusive character in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust, I consider how (post)colonial legislative frameworks and social life attempt to manage “impossible domesticity” (Saidiya Hartman) inside and against the geo-history of gendered and classed criminality in urban Kenyan spaces. My purpose is to interrogate hegemonic constructions of the citizen – and by extension, of the human – in Kenyan law and public morality
Keywords: crime fiction, feminism, sex work, human, homo narrans
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Altaf, Sana. "Negotiating patriarchal hegemony: Female agency in Christina Dalcher’s Vox." Technoetic Arts 21, no. 1 (August 1, 2023): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/tear_00103_1.
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Contemporary critics have opined that the vision of dystopian texts has come true about the present situation rather than about the future. In today’s technologically driven world, where the gulf between speculative fiction and political reality seems to have narrowed, feminist dystopian fiction has gained immense popularity. These texts address gender ideologies and issues and often use current social conditions to demonstrate the sexism inherent in patriarchal societies. This article aims to analyse the novel Vox (2018) by American writer Christina Dalcher within the framework of feminist dystopia to highlight the unbridled nature of violence used against women and the eventual emergence of the female body as the locus of self-articulation and resistance against the dystopian authority. It also demonstrates how the novel creates a narrative space within which the feminine body is transformed from a static object of representation to a potent subject of the text.
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Urraca, Beatriz. "Juana Manuela Gorriti and the Persistence of Memory." Latin American Research Review 34, no. 1 (1999): 151–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002387910002433x.
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AbstractThis study analyzes the work of Juana Manuela Gorriti, one of the most prominent women writers in nineteenth-century Argentina. It unravels the notions that structure Gorriti's ideas of literature, history, and nation and illustrates how her work established close links between memory, continuity, and the role of women in the creation of national identities in Latin America. Her short stories and autobiographical pieces are situated within their historical context and literary milieu. The Rosas dictatorship and its aftermath are examined as played out in Gorriti's fiction, in stories where violence against women, the ghostly, and popular culture became central themes through which Gorriti created myths of personal history and national identity. The essay also explores the ways in which her female characters illustrate the strategies of ordinary women for turning their social constraints into public action.
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Valdimarsdóttir, Alda Björk, and Guðni Elísson. "„Ég veit hvað höfuð þitt vó en þekki ekki síðustu hugsunina“." Ritið 18, no. 3 (December 20, 2018): 17–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.33112/ritid.18.3.2.
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The icelandic poet Gerður Kristný has in the last two decades repeatedly told tragic stories focusing on the systemic violence that has for so long been directed against women, and her long narrative poem Drápa, or The Slaying (2014), is no exception. Drápa is a feminist critique focusing on the true story of Gréta Birgisdóttir, who was murdered by her husband Bragi Ólafsson in Reykjavík in January 1988. it is a poem about a killing that draws its power from various different sources, such as modern true crime fiction, the Nordic crime novel, and fantastic tales.
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Naz, Ansa, Muhammad Sabboor Hussain, and Sitara Tariq. "WOMEN VIOLENCE DEPICTION IN DYSTOPIAN FICTION: AN ECOFEMINIST EXPLORATION OF THE PATRIARCHAL PATTERNS IN BINA SHAH’S BEFORE SHE SLEEPS." JUNE 2024 3, no. 2 (May 28, 2024): 66–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.53664/jssd/03-02-2024-06-66-80.
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The current research explores Bina Shah's (2018) dystopian novel Before She Sleeps, which depicts violence against the women destroying nature's biodiversity. The worst effects on nature and women are examined using the ecofeminism framework by Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies (2014). Males use science to fulfil their goals under pretext of strengthening society. Both women & nature are cruelly disrupted by science, firming totalitarian state. Patriarchy, science, and technology all play interconnected role in shaping the world. Science, which is considered as a blessing, brutally disrupts both the normal cycles of women and of nature. Also, totalitarian regime benefits from it. The study reveals that development is a patriarchal project. Using the descriptive textual analysis method, the study's findings indicate that the scientific advancements, sexism, and innovation harm women and the environment. This study paves the way for studying the materialism from an ecofeminist perspective to provide new insights & add significant research to the literature.
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Pedro, Dina. "The Misrepresentation of Father-Daughter Incest in Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Misogynistic and Victim-Blaming Understandings of Gendered Violence in Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)." Complutense Journal of English Studies 31 (November 15, 2023): e88950. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cjes.88950.
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Incest has traditionally been regarded as the universal taboo, despite its convoluted and changeable nature from period to period –both in the social and legal arenas (Tate 2013). As a result, incest has proven to be a fascinating topic for authors across history, particularly in the case of Victorian and neo-Victorian Gothic fiction. We can find copious examples of incestuous relationships in (neo-)Victorian literature and culture, whose representation aims 1) to question idealised conceptualisations of the nuclear family, 2) to denounce sexual and domestic violence against women and 3) to cater to the audience’s morbid fascination for these forbidden relationships (Llewellyn 2010; Cox 2014). Penny Dreadful is a neo-Victorian TV series that exploits incest to seemingly denounce patriarchal and sexual violence. However, as I show in this article, the (mis)representation of its female protagonists, Lily and Vanessa –as a misandrist woman and a femme fatale, respectively–, might mislead the audience into victim blaming them for their own downfalls, rather than acknowledge their status as survivors of gender-based violence. Therefore, in spite of the series’ apparent feminist drive, Penny Dreadful ends up reproducing patriarchal ideologies that blame and silence the victim and side with the perpetrator.
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Anatol, Giselle Liza. "Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers." MELUS 46, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 186–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab053.
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Abstract Although a number of scholars have tackled the figure of the Black folk-healer in Toni Morrison’s novels, the character deserves greater attention in the present moment for the insights she provides into two contemporary catastrophes: the coronavirus pandemic and the structural racism that precipitates rampant violence against brown-skinned people in the United States. Beginning with M’Dear, the elderly woman who is brought in to treat Cholly’s Aunt Jimmy in The Bluest Eye (1970), I survey descriptions of several root workers, hoodoo practitioners, and midwives in Morrison’s fiction, including Ajax’s mother in Sula (1973) and Milkman’s aunt Pilate in Song of Solomon (1977). Morrison’s portraits of these women and their communities capture the endurance of African folk customs, the undervalued knowledge of aged members of society, and a sense of Black women’s strength beyond that of the physical, laboring, or hypersexual body. The fictional experiences of Morrison’s healers also alert readers to the very real injustices that have historically impeded the successes of African Americans—and continue to hamper them, as has been exposed during the COVID-19 crisis and public outrages over police brutality. These injustices include inequities in lifelong earning potential, education, housing, and access to healthcare. Paying closer attention to the Nobel Laureate’s root-working women makes her novels more than simply “transformative” and “empowering” for individual readers; analyzing these figures allows one to unearth important critiques of medical bias and other forms of discrimination against marginalized members of society—disparities that must be dismantled in the push for social change.
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Calista, Margaretha Finna, and Wening Udasmoro. "Women as Breadwinners in Maureen Sherry’s Opening Belle." Journal of Language and Literature 21, no. 2 (September 20, 2021): 318–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v21i2.3146.
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There have been many popular fiction novels in the literature world that raise how women enter the economic aspect. One of them is the novel Opening Belle written by Maureen Sherry and published in 2016. Opening Belle represents women’s participation in the financial sector because they want a good life. This research is studied with the feminist political economy theory proposed by Jacqui True. In her book, The Political Economy of Violence against Women, True explains that economic globalization has changed women’s lives becoming financially independent. However, on the other hand, women involved in the public sphere are underappreciated and receive sexual harassment or violence, making it difficult for women to participate in the economic aspect. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. With this method, the writer takes parts of the novel in the form of words, sentences, paragraphs which explain the economic aspect and women’s participation in it. This research is analyzed through the explanations and utterances of the characters. The results of this study are: first, the participation of women as breadwinners in this novel is started as part of her life experiences and is driven by the hardships of her family; second, women are highly motivated figures so that they implement several strategies to survive in their office, namely by proving their competence, joining the GCC women’s community and voicing equal rights in the workplace. In conclusions, economic globalization opens up women’s opportunity to become the sole breadwinner in the family.
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Lee, Abigail Jinju. "What Comes after #StopAsianHate? Asian American Feminist Speculation." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 44, no. 3 (2023): 92–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a922879.
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Abstract: Growing Asian American abolition feminisms is a practice not only of politics, organizing, and struggle, but of imagination, and speculative fiction and poetry can work to inspire and sustain such imaginations. Speculative and experimental works also challenge conventions of literary realism in Asian American literature, opening generic and imaginative possibilities for Asian American feminist politics. Responding to the threats of police violence and of racialized violence against Asian North American women, Franny Choi’s queer feminist cyborg poetics open space beyond the violences of the human, and Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir bends space and time to join trans women’s community together in ease and safety. Vandana Singh’s utopias of the third kind locate utopic thinking in the struggles of oppressed and racialized people to build and sustain community through slowness and connection. Together, these speculations consider Asian American feminist futurities and what ways of being-otherwise we can share in the present and future, shaped by connection, community, and care, rather than urgency, scarcity, and fear. Analyzing how these works respond to violence and crisis, this article describes abolitionist possibilities for Asian American feminisms that respond to anti-Asian and state violence by seeking other genres of human life and rejecting linear notions of progress. Instead, these texts cultivate connection and community in the present as a project of shaping Asian American utopic visions, rethinking utopia not as a vision of future perfection, but an ethic of embracing and negotiating change, difference, and multiplicity.
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Burton, Mandy. "Policing Men, Policing Women: Responsibility and Accountability for Violence Against Women and Girls, Including Domestic Abuse and Femicide." International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law 3, no. 1 (July 18, 2024): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.19164/ijgsl.v3i1.1575.
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Existing legal responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG) often focus on the behaviour of the victim as much as, or sometimes more than, that of the alleged perpetrator. The laws that are supposed to protect women and girls from abuse are used to ‘police’ the behaviour of women; access to remedies and redress can seem to be contingent on whether the victim has adhered to stereotypes of an ‘ideal/real’ or ‘deserving’ victim. Female victims of male violence, including femicide, are often judged for their own behaviour; what they ‘ought’ to have done to keep themselves safe. This ‘responsibilisation’ is evident in both the substantive law and in the implementation of the law in practice. This article will highlight some of the examples of victim blaming in existing legal responses to VAWG in England and Wales. It will consider the question: how can we focus less on victim behaviour and more on perpetrator responsibility and accountability? Jayne Cowie’s book After Dark offers a useful lens for examining this question. The article will explore the parallels between some of the existing preventative measures for domestic abuse in England and Wales and some of the fictional measures enacted in Cowie’s world, in particular cohabitation contracts and domestic violence disclosure schemes.
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Escandell Montiel, Daniel, and Miriam Borham Puyal. "Villains and Vixens: The Representation of Female Vampires in Videogames." Oceánide 12 (February 9, 2020): 85–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v12i.29.
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Vampires populate our culture and have become a recurrent presence in fiction and the media. In all cases the inclusion of the vampire has given voice to “socio-culture issues faced in particular times and places; issues that may otherwise remain repressed” (Dillon and Lundberg 2017, 47). This socio-cultural subtext is complicated when the vampire is female, for she is now doubly othered by her gender. Her monstrosity is seen as twofold: as a vampire and as a transgressive woman. While many studies address female vampires in popular culture, their portrayal in videogames has been recurrently overlooked. Games potentially help shape gender attitudes in thousands of players; therefore, it is particularly relevant to examine the varied representations of these monstrous or othered female figures and to understand how they adhere to or challenge misogynistic readings of women and their bodies. In light of this, and interpreting videogames as a narrative medium, this article provides an analysis of significant vampiric videogames and discusses the female vampire in relation to violence against women and postfeminist agendas, following a narrative rather than ludology approach.
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Davaslioglu, Thania. "“La patria es impecable y diamantina”: Performing Diamantina in Cristina Rivera Garza’s (Non)Fiction." Latin American Literary Review 48, no. 95 (November 4, 2020): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.26824/lalr.157.
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Cristina Rivera Garza’s (non) fiction trajectory is a dialogue of interests threaded by her passions for translation, history, poetics, among many other topics. In this article, Diamantina -- a repetitive character in the author’s corpora -- is traced to analyze how gender and cultural memory are portrayed in Nadie me verá llorar (1999) Ningún reloj cuenta esto (2002) and Dolerse: textos desde un país herido (2011). By commenting on Ramón López Velarde’s famous stanza “La patria es impecable y diamantina” in “Suave patria” (1921), Rivera Garza proposes an alternative way of performing nation by women who resist the virtuous adjectives exalted by Velarde in post-revolutionary Mexico, which can be threaded to the glitter used in recent public demonstrations against femicides and gender-based violence. Narrative memory is proposed to name the intersections of intertextuality and cultural memory in her literary cultural production that goes beyond the borders of a nation. This article centralizes the short-story, “La alineación también tiene su belleza” in Ningún reloj cuenta esto, which is set in San Antonio, Texas and New York City, to analyze Mexican canonical representations of women as Patria from a transnational lens.
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Mehran Ahmad, Aamer Shaheen, and Muhammad Asif Khan. "Evolution of Hispanic Crime Fiction in Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season and Paradais." International Journal of Linguistics and Culture 3, no. 1 (June 20, 2022): 227–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/ijlc.v3i1.102.
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Exploiting Glen S. Close’s study (2008), this paper attempts to explicate the position Fernanda Melchor occupies on the Hispanic literary scene: how her novels Hurricane Season and Paradais fit in the packed ranks of Hispanic crime fiction, the novela negra; how they are beholden to their antecedents and the differences they have with said antecedents. Amply endowed with the grim workings of the novela negra, both novels are quite comparable with their contemporaries. In the long line of novela negra authors, Melchor is a rare female, delving into crime and showing it to the world through the eyes of a woman, highlighting the addictions, the violence, the corruption, the debauchery endemic in Mexican society and the misogyny underlying most of them. Locked in an incessant battle of survival, her characters are mirthless, helpless, and ruthless, breeding vicious and virulent violence against each other and themselves.
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R, Nagarani. "The Theme of Social Consciousness in Rajam Krishnan's Award-Winning Novels." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-7 (July 30, 2022): 344–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s754.
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Fiction is not created just to entertain. It serves as a historical treasure trove of social change, the context, and condition of a changing society by uncovering social problems and suggesting solutions. Fiction creators act as the lifeblood of this forum. Such a creator is Rajam Krishnan. With the aim of social development, he has created many new personalities in his fiction from various angles. He has given life and meaning to the nucleus of innovation with the aim of improving the individual's character and interests and has sown the seeds of social excellence in the form of the contribution of storytellers. If the standard of living of the people is to be raised, the level of education should be raised. Education should be communal. We need to get rid of the condition of being dependent on others economically. Educated young people need to listen to experienced elders. Capitalist norms should be broken and rights should be voiced. Students of higher education should be aware of these principles and be aware of social progress. Eliminating the distinctions between upper and lower caste people, Rajam Krishnan's Katha Manders has been created so that the idea of living with the idea of humanity should be removed and vandalism should be eliminated. Educated women and illiterate women should have clarity of thought. They should become powerful in the liberation struggles and in opposing the groups that work against women. When sexual harassment and violence occur in the workplace, workers should be courageous and have a strong mindset to get rid of them. In order to raise the economic status, the standard of education should be raised. Rajam Krishnan's award-winning novelizations capture the idea that women's thinking should be beneficial to the nation and the home.
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Spence, Taylor. "Naming Violence in United States Colonialism." Journal of Social History 53, no. 1 (2019): 157–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shy086.
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Abstract This article reexamines a highly public dispute between a powerful and well-connected Episcopal bishop and his missionary priest, men both central to the government’s campaign of war and assimilation against Indigenous Peoples in the Northern Great Plains of the nineteenth-century United States. The bishop claimed that the priest had engaged in sexual intercourse with a Dakota woman named “Scarlet House,” and used this allegation to remove the priest from his post. No historian ever challenged this claim and asked who Scarlet House was. Employing Dakota-resourced evidence, government and church records, linguistics, and onomastics, this study reveals that in actuality there was no such person as Scarlet House. Furthermore, at the time of the incident, the person in question was not a woman but a child. The church created a fictional personage to cover up what was taking place at the agency: sexual violence against children. After “naming” this violence, this article makes four key historical contributions about the history of US settler colonialism: It documents Dakota Peoples’ agency, by demonstrating how they adapted their social structures to the harrowing conditions of the US mission and agency system. It situates the experiences of two Dakota families within the larger context of settler-colonial conquest in North America, revealing the generational quality of settler-colonial violence. It shows how US governmental policies actually enabled sexual predation against children and women. And, it argues that “naming violence” means both rendering a historical account of the sexual violence experienced by children and families in the care of the US government and its agents, as well as acknowledging how this violence has rippled out through communities and across generations.
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Roy, Dibyadyuti. "From Non-places to Places: Transforming Partition Rehabilitation Camps Through the Gendered Quotidian." Millennial Asia 9, no. 1 (April 2018): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0976399617753752.
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The political partition of India in 1947 into a truncated India and the dominion of Pakistan witnessed a wave of forced migration, hitherto unseen in human history. The alteration of a singular national space into two separate nation-states based on religious identities forced the movement of almost twelve million people, in search of a new homeland. Although this exodus was experienced differently based on socio-economic backgrounds—unfortunately in ways akin to any violent transition—women formed the most susceptible ground to the rigours of the Partition. Gross and barbarous acts of violence perpetuated against women were derived from a hypermasculinized nationalist ideology: one that perceived women’s bodies as sites where national and religious identities needed to be forcibly inscribed. Partition historiography, however, has frequently privileged only the political circumstances and elided the traumatic human micro-histories, which dominated and continue to impinge on postcolonial subjectivities. This article explores a key facet of Partition history, which has often been relegated to the footnotes of both political and social narratives: transitory rehabilitation camps established primarily for the recovery of female refugees. Through an analysis of non-fictional testimonies and selected Partition fiction, I demonstrate how the transformation of these refugee rehabilitation camps—from transitory non-places into referential spatial locations or places—was facilitated through the quotidian performances of the female Partition Refugee.
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Pexa, Christopher. "Sovereign Flows and the Obligation of Repayment." American Literary History 35, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 246–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac244.
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Abstract Stephen Graham Jones’s 2020 novel, The Only Good Indians, depicts the haunting and killing of four Blackfeet friends—Ricky, Lewis, Cassidy, and Gabriel—by the spirit of an elk cow called “Elk Head Woman,” who stalks the men after they have killed her and her unborn calf. Their punishment, and the unpayability of their debt to the ghost, entail asking what lies beyond a regime of rights when those rights have been judged to be always already ignorable by settler-colonial society. But Elk Head Woman’s haunting also positions violence against the land (via fracking) and its more-than-human inhabitants as a metonym for settler-colonial violence against Indigenous women and girls. This essay asks what justice may look like beyond a framework of individual rights that create a temporal enclosure, tying people and harm to moments in time and specific places, arguing that the mobility of intergenerational debt and its unpayable reparations across times and places constitute a sovereign flow—the enduring movement of an ethical–political object (here, the elk-Blackfeet law) created between sovereign peoples (human and more-than-human) that persists apart from the settler-colonial state across whose legal and geographic spaces and time the flow moves. [The Only Good Indians’] fictional dramatizing of settler-Indigenous-nonhuman relations shows a world apart from settler-colonial social justice and forms of democratic inclusion: a haunting that . . . [refuses] violence against Indigenous women and ongoing forms of capitalistic extraction on tribal lands.
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Murray, Carol, Carlos Calderón, and Joaquín Bahamondes. "Modern Rape Myths: Justifying Victim and Perpetrator Blame in Sexual Violence." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 3 (January 17, 2023): 1663. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031663.
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Rape myths are beliefs, stereotypes, and attitudes usually false, widespread, and persistent about rape, victims, and perpetrators. They aim to deny and justify men’s sexual assault against women. This study evaluates the mediating effect of modern rape myths on the relationship between gender system justification and attribution of blame to both victim and perpetrator in a fictional case of sexual violence. A total of 375 individuals residing in Chile, 255 women and 120 men, 19–81 years (M = 37.6 SD = 13.06) participated in the study. Results from a Structural Equation Model show that gender system justification is directly related to the attribution of blame to the victim, showing an indirect relationship throughout the modern rape myth. However, gender system justification and attribution of blame to the aggressor are indirectly related, being mediated by modern rape myths. The study of the relationship between the acceptance of modern rape myths, gender-specific system justification, and victim and aggressor blame for rape is a contribution to understanding beliefs justifying sexual violence against women.
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Bierria, Alisa. "Structural Racism Within Reason." American Philosophical Quarterly 60, no. 4 (October 1, 2023): 355–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21521123.60.4.04.
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Abstract In this discussion, I engage the politics of intention to explore how structural racism structures the production of meaning and the practice of reason. Building on María Lugones's analysis of intention formation as a form of practical reasoning, I explore the reasoning at work during the 2011 Stand Your Ground (SYG) hearing of black survivor of domestic violence, Marissa Alexander, to contend that structural racism—in this case, both intimate personal violence and intimate state violence against black women—enacts race/gender domination through projecting constructed intentions onto black women as a strategy to rationalize punishing black women. I also discuss two key black feminist critiques of reason—Patricia Hill Collins’ discussion of “controlling images” (2000) and Michelle Cliff's concept of the “mythic mind” (1982)—to propose controlling intentions as a framework to theorize how structural racism produces fictive intentions used to rationalize the criminal punishment of survival and justify that outcome as common sense.
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Kishore Shrivastwa, Bimal. "Voice against Instrumentalization of Shame in Sanghera’s Daughters of Shame: A Feminist Perspective." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 11, no. 3 (May 31, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.11n.3p.1.
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The primary aim of this research is to explore how the female protagonists of the novel, Daughters of Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera resist the patriarchal trend of instrumentalizing women as shameful creatures, marginalizing women and how they struggle to establish their identity. Through the close reading of the text from the perspectives of Materialist feminism, the paper focuses on how the major women characters, along with the writer herself, like Shazia, Fozia Maya, Shabana and Yasmin help each other by giving psychological and physical support to fight against exploitation by men. These characters represent the dominated Pakistani Muslim and Sikh women in the modern city in Derby in particular and the Sikh and Muslim communities in general. The memoir has presented women as the object to be used for convenience, the satisfaction of men, and as unpaid domestic laborers. The chief finding is that the memoir depicts the social reality of how Muslim and Sikh women living in Western countries are compelled to tolerate domestic violence, honor-based crimes, and forceful marriage. It is expected that the article will encourage other researchers to apply materialist feminism in other fictions.
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Baas, Renzo. "Travel Beyond Stars: Trauma and Future in Mojisola Adebayo’s STARS." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 9, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 95–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2021-0007.
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Abstract The article explores Mojisola Adebayo’s two-hander STARS (preliminary workshop performance, Ovalhouse, 2018) through the lens of Afrofuturism. The play will be discussed in regard to future-making technologies. By analysing the overt as well as subtle references to science fiction and its tropes, this article lays out how Afrofuturism informs the play and how it is formative in liberating the main character. Furthermore, questions of violence against women, forms of resistance, and the function of the imagination will be examined. Adebayo deftly weaves Afrofuturist concerns into the everyday experiences of marginalised groups who face discrimination and exclusion, irrespective of whether their marginalisation is based on culture, gender, or age. Through this, the play offers ways of dealing with bodily and historical trauma and exclusion, while simultaneously addressing violent and harmful practices and power relations. The play may be set in the present and deals with current issues, but its performance of the future – in regard to resistance and liberation – proves to be its central feature.
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Amonyeze, Chinenye, and Stella Okoye-Ugwu. "Prejudice Nation: Hypersexualization and Abuse in Jude Dibia’s Unbridled." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (July 2021): 215824402110326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211032661.
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With the global #Metoo movement yet to arrive in Nigeria, Jude Dibia’s Unbridled reflects an emblematic moment for the underrepresented to occupy their stories and make their voices heard. The study analyzes patriarchy’s complicated relationship with the Nigerian girl child, significantly reviewing the inherent prejudices in patriarchy’s power hierarchies and how radical narratives explore taboo topics like incest and sexual violence. Contextualizing the concepts of hypersexualization and implicit bias to put in perspective how women, expected to be the gatekeepers of sex, are forced to navigate competing allegiances while remaining submissive and voiceless, the article probes the struggles of sexual victims and how hierarchies in a patriarchal society exacerbate their affliction through a culture of silence. Arguing that Dibia’s Unbridled confronts the narrative of silence in Nigerian fiction, the article explores ways the author empowers gender by challenging social values and traditional gender roles, underscoring gender dynamics and the problematic nature of prevalent bias against the feminine gender in Nigeria.
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Russell, Gordon W., Veronica E. Horn, and Mary J. Huddle. "MALE RESPONSES TO FEMALE AGGRESSION." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 16, no. 1 (January 1, 1988): 51–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1988.16.1.51.
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The effects on males (N= 60) of observing fictional aggression were assessed in a between-subjects design. Subjects were randomly assigned to view either a film clip of professional lady wrestlers, a mud wrestling segment or, to a no-film control condition. Both films produced negative changes in mood states, principally an increase in aggression and a decrease in social affection. Exposure to the films failed to produce changes in men's acceptance of interpersonal violence against women, rape myth beliefs or sexual callousness.
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Lee, Geongeun. "Faction Representation Method of Sexual Assault by the U.S. Forces in the Vietnam War and Its Discourse Value." Democracy and Peace Institute, Chosun University 5, no. 1 (August 31, 2022): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.55082/jdp.2022.5.1.45.
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U.S. media and contents based on the Vietnam War have focused mainly on the political aspects of the Cold War era after the Second World War and the post-Cold War era in the 1990s, but little has been said about the frequent U.S. soldiers' sexual assault against Vietnamese women. This paper examines the way the faction literature and movies related to the Vietnam War reproduce sexual violence by the U.S.
military and discusses whether it is worth discussing the phenomenon of wartime sexual violence on terms of social science. To this end, I examine the contents reproduced by the style of 'faction' through literature data describing sexual assault by the U.S. military, and explore whether the reproduction method can be discussed politically based on William Timothy O'Brien's experience and perception. In addition, in the conclusion, a practical methodology is presented to convey precious lessons of international pacifism to future generations. As a result, it is emphasized that this genre of faction can present the direction of international efforts to realize true peace with various dynamics that can discourse this issue tinged by a style of social science research with sexual assault-related facts and sensitivity-stimulating fiction.
This paper will invite more follow-up studies in that it is a new attempt to explore whether the factional reproduction elements of Vietnam War-related works, which could have been understood mainly by interest, can be analyzed socially and scientifically.
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Lennerhed, Lena. "En besvärlig människa. Om Elisabeth Sjövall, sexualiteten och kvinnligheten." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 34, no. 4 (June 13, 2022): 117–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v34i4.3349.
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Elisabet Sjövall (1915-1981) was a Swedish gynecologist, with a range of additional responsibilities. She was the director of the Gothenburg City Council Center for women applying for abortion, a social democratic politician and member of parliament from 1957-1968, the president of RFSU which is The Swedish Association for Sex Education, from 1961-1964, and the author of two works of fiction: the novel Barlast (1946) and the play Fyra människor (1951). In this article, Sjövall’s view on the sexual experience and consequences’ of sexual life are discussed. As a member of parliament, Sjövall argued for a revised and more equal law on sterilization. She also argued against the criminalization of rape within marriage in the 1960s because she considered sex and violence to be intertwined and was of the view that the sexual act should be regarded as a mutual agreement. In the abortion debate in the early 1960s, Sjövall argued against the introduction of abortion on demand. In private letters, Sjövall wrote about herself as a heterosexual person who had had several homosexual contacts, and with experiences of a sexual life she described as ”unique” in ”beauty and holiness”. This article argues that Sjövall’s emphasis on sexuality as mutual as well as a complex force can explain some of her political standpoints on sexual issues.
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Ghorbani, Kolsoom, and Azar Hossaini. "A Study of Violence Against Women in the Fiction Literature of the 1940s Based on Four Novels (Showhar-e Ahou Khanom, Sang-e Sabour, Shazde Ehtejab, Suvashon)." Half-Yearly Persian Language and Literature 28, no. 89 (December 1, 2020): 225–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.52547/jpll.28.89.225.
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Bessant, Claire, and Kayliegh Richardson. "Gender Based Violence: Reflections on the World Envisaged in “After Dark” by Jayne Cowie: Using Literature to Critically Explore Current Legal Responses to GBV in the Home and in Public." International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law 3, no. 1 (July 18, 2024): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.19164/ijgsl.v3i1.1573.
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This special issue of The International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law, edited by Claire Bessant and Kayliegh Richardson, brings together academic voices from across law and criminology in discussion of the issue of gender-based violence (GBV). Many of the ideas included in this special issue were presented previously at a 2022 conference funded by the Society of Legal Scholars, titled ‘Gender Based Violence: Reflections on the world envisaged in “After Dark” by Jayne Cowie’. That conference sought to use the book ‘After Dark’ as a focal point for a multi-disciplinary discussion about how society and the law should respond to tragedies such as the deaths of Sarah Everard and Ashling Murphy but also to the issue of violence against women. Building on the academic discussion that took place at that conference, this special edition firstly considers some of the legal interventions discussed in After Dark and their potential application within the real world. The second part of the special edition, then considers the potential benefits of using literature and other fictional works to stimulate discussion around legal issues.
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Varela, Cecilia, and Catalina Trebisacce. "Notas epistemológicas en torno a la política de cifras de la violencia contra las mujeres." Empiria. Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales, no. 49 (December 30, 2020): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/empiria.49.2021.29234.
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En el presente trabajo nos proponemos abordar la política de cifras desplegadas por los movimientos de mujeres en Argentina de la última década en torno a las violencias contra las mujeres. En un contexto de expansión de los feminismos en el país y una creciente institucionalización de perspectivas que se reconocen en esa matriz, la retórica de las cifras se ha convertido en la lingua franca para la visibilización de las situaciones de violencia contra las mujeres. Las preguntas que nos formulamos son las siguientes: ¿Cómo se organiza hoy el saber sobre la violencia de género? ¿Cómo operan las cifras en la construcción de ese saber y en su difusión e impacto social? Tomando como corpus para la indagación el registro de femicidios de la Casa del Encuentro nos interesa, por un lado, detenernos en los supuestos epistemológicos y las elecciones metodológicas de su confección y, por el otro, abordar los procesos sociales de construcción y validación de cifras en torno a los femicidios en un contexto de despliegue de políticas de cifras. Nuestro argumento es, por un lado, que el registro despliega un método positivista inductivo que actúa ficciones de objetividad científica a partir del empleo de las cifras como evidencia indiscutible de los “hechos”. Por el otro lado, sostenemos que un saber en torno a los femicidios se legitima como experto a partir de la política de cifras. In this paper we aim to address the politics of numbers displayed by women's movements in Argentina in the last decade about violence against women. In a context of expansion of feminisms across the country and a growing institutionalization of the gender perspective, the rhetoric of numbers has become the lingua franca for the visibility of situations of violence against women. The questions we ask ourselves are: How is the knowledge about gender violence organized today? How do the figures operate in the construction of this knowledge and in its dissemination and social impact? Taking as a corpus the register of femicides of Casa del Encuentro, we are interested, on the one hand, in interrogate the epistemological assumptions and the methodological choices behind it and, on the other, to address the social processes of construction and validation of figures around femicides in a context of politics of numbers. Our argument is, on the one hand, that the register displays an inductive positivist method that acts fictions of scientific objectivity based on the use of figures as indisputable evidence of "facts". On the other hand, we argue that knowledge about femicides is legitimized as expert based on the politics of numbers.
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Palomino-Manjón, Patricia. "Savior or Villain? A Corpus Stylistic Approach to the Linguistic Construction of Victim-Survivors of Sexual Violence in Westworld." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 44, no. 2 (December 23, 2022): 65–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2022-44.2.04.
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This paper explores how the identity of victim-survivors of sexual violence is portrayed in the dystopian TV series Westworld (2016-present) by analyzing the linguistic characterization of the lead female character, Dolores Abernathy. To do so, this paper adopts a mixed methodology which combines corpus stylistics and Appraisal Theory with a feminist critical reading of the results in order to examine the textual cues in Dolores’ dialogue which characterize her journey from being a victim to becoming an empowered being. The results of the analysis show that the series features a misappropriation of female empowerment and liberation since Dolores presents a masculinization of her fictional identity which mirrors patriarchal practices and attitudes against women.
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Rathod, Jasvant V. "Examining Caste Consciousness in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife and Fisher Queen’s Dynasty." Shanlax International Journal of English 11, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 68–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v11i1.5314.
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Use of mythological tales for creating revisionist literature is contemporary approach of the modern Indian writers. Some famous works of literature, based on mythology are written by writers like Devdutt Pattanaik, Amish Tripathi, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Volga, Kevin Missal, SarathKomarraju and Krishna Udayashankar. These writers try to reinterpret mythological characters like Shiva, Rama, Draupadi, Amba, Krishna etc. Kavita Kane is one of the popular woman writers of India who renders Indian mythological texts and writes novels. Her ficitons are known for portrayals of the mythical characters who are less discussed. She picks up marginalized women characters from the mythical literature of India and retells their stories. She raises isssues of identity, individuality, gender, caste, femininity and patriarchy in her fictional works. In her novels, Karna’s Wife and Fisher Queen’s Dynasty, Kane has woven issues of gender and caste. Both of them are based on the Mahabharata. She retells the stories of Uruvi, Karna’s wife and Satyavati, Shantanu’s wife from their perspectives and explore their struggles against discriminations based on gender and caste. The novelist depicts these women characters with their courage, confidence, individuality and power to resist the class or caste-based violence. As modern literary works, their intersectionality is evident and they can be examined keeping in mind multidisciplinary approach. The present article examines caste consciousness as expressed by Kane in her Karna’s Wife and Fisher Queen’s Dynasty.
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Lonergan, Meg D. "Real scary/scary real: Consuming simulated and authentic horrors in the digital era." Horror Studies 13, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/host_00046_1.
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Snuff, like porn, has been challenged by feminist and other political debates around representations focused on the body, exaggerated performance, claims of ‘realness’ and concerns about representing and/or encouraging violence against women. Thus, it is not surprising that simulated snuff horror, as a subgenre, is heavily influenced by the same technological changes that have also affected the porn industry: the content of the videos, how the videos are produced and how they are consumed. I argue that the decontextualized digital context of media production and consumption has especially lent itself to the subgenre of horror I refer to as ‘simulated snuff films’ and aids in the longevity of snuff mythology. I use the terminology simulated snuff films to differentiate these fictional, from authentic snuff. Building on Steve Jones’ work, I explore the consumption of simulated snuff films that are scary real ‐ fictional content that purposefully attempts to approximate the imagined look of a real snuff film ‐ and films that are real scary ‐ authentic depictions of extreme sexual violence and death ‐ which may not give the appearance of being real or may be read by audiences as being faked. Further, using Jean Baudrillard’s theories of Simulation and Simulacra (1981), I argue that the case of Luka Magnotta, and his now infamous internet videos, exemplifies the hyperreality of snuff films in the post-9/11 context. To put it another way, simulated snuff films now appear more real than authentic recordings of murder in the digital sphere.
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RENTSCHLER, CARRIE. "Filmic witness to the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder." Urban History 43, no. 4 (July 13, 2016): 642. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926815000875.
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ABSTRACTThis essay examines a body of films that represent and re-enact the infamous 1964 Catherine Genovese rape and murder, helping to define the crime as a problem of bystander non-intervention exacerbated by urban living conditions and the ‘high rise anxieties’ of apartment dwellers. The moving image culture around the Genovese case tells a story about male violence against women in the city through the perspective of urban apartment dwellers, who are portrayed as bystander witnesses to both the city and to the social relations of stranger sociability in the city. Films depict the killing of Kitty Genovese, sometimes through fictional analogues to her and the crime, as an outcome of failed witnessing, explicating those failures around changing ideas about urban social relations between strangers, and ways of surveilling the city street from apartment windows. By portraying urban bystanders as primarily non-interventionist spectators of the Genovese rape and murder, films locate the conditions of femicide and responsibility for it in detached modes of seeing and encountering strangers. By analysing film as forms of historic documentation and imagination, as artifacts of historically and contextually different ways of telling and revising the story of the Genovese murder as one of bystander non-intervention in gender violence in the city, the essay conceptualizes film and filmic re-enactments as a mode of paying witness to the past.
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Pavlić, Ed. "“Indisputably Available”." James Baldwin Review 7, no. 1 (September 28, 2021): 16–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.7.2.
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Spurred on by Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys (2019), which is set in Tallahassee, FL, during the 1950s and 1960s, this essay presents a close-up look at James Baldwin’s visit to Tallahassee in May 1960. Moving between Baldwin’s writings about the South, especially “They Can’t Turn Back,” published by Mademoiselle magazine in August 1960, and subsequent writing about the movement in Tallahassee, and checking off against Whitehead’s fictional treatment, we find a lattice of silences obscuring the names and contributions of Black women. Most importantly, we find that the historic case of the rape of Betty Jean Owens in May 1959, and the subsequent trial that summer, appears neither in Baldwin’s nor Whitehead’s writing about Tallahassee at the time. This essay establishes the missing names of Black women in the places marked and unmarked by Baldwin in his work at the time, and puts the case of Betty Jean Owens on the historical map where it belongs. In so doing, we figure issues of race, gender, sex, and violence for the ways they twist together, ways suppressed in historical (and even some contemporary) writing, ways crucial to our deepening consideration of Baldwin’s work and the history which he drew upon and to which he contributed so profoundly.
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Schmidt-Hori, Sachi. "Symbolic Death and Rebirth into Womanhood: An Analysis of Stepdaughter Narratives from Heian and Medieval Japan." Japanese Language and Literature 54, no. 2 (September 25, 2020): 447–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jll.2020.94.
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Through a comparative reading of several premodern Japanese tales with a focus on Ochikubo monogatari (ca. tenth century) and Hachi-kazuki (ca. fifteenth century), this essay attempts to interpret the common literary trope of mamako ijime—stepmothers’ mistreatment of their stepdaughters—in a new light. Within the pre-existing scholarship, the fictional accounts of mamako ijime seem to have been viewed as a reflection of quasi-universal, self-evident phenomena at best. Consequently, little inquiry has been made regarding the ubiquity or functions of this particular form of female-on-female violence in literary texts. The present study, in turn, attributes the blind acceptance of the universality of mamako ijime to negative stereotypes against middle-aged women, shared by the readers of the past and present, and offers a more critical interpretation thereof. Based on the recurrent patterns found in premodern Japanese tales, mamako ijime can be read as the dead birthmothers’ “tough love” for their daughters. By enduring the abusive (albeit not deadly) deeds of the stepmothers—or the evil surrogates of the late mothers—the heroines mature into resilient, caring, and wise women and ultimately achieve strong marriage, wealth, and prestige, all of which would have been what the birthmothers wished upon their daughters.
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R, Bhuvaneswari, Cynthiya Rose J S, and Maria Baptist S. "Editorial: Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future." Studies in Media and Communication 11, no. 2 (February 22, 2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v11i2.5932.
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IntroductionIndian Literature with its multiplicity of languages and the plurality of cultures dates back to 3000 years ago, comprising Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. India has a strong literary tradition in various Indian regional languages like Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and so on. Indian writers share oral tradition, indigenous experiences and reflect on the history, culture and society in regional languages as well as in English. The first Indian novel in English is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s Wife (1864). Indian Writing in English can be viewed in three phases - Imitative, First and Second poets’ phases. The 20th century marks the matrix of indigenous novels. The novels such as Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé (2001), and Khuswant Singh’s Memories of Madness: Stories of 1947 (2002) depict social issues, vices and crises (discrimination, injustice, violence against women) in India. Indian writers, and their contribution to world literature, are popular in India and abroad.Researchers are keen on analysing the works of Indian writers from historical, cultural, social perspectives and on literary theories (Post-Colonialism, Postmodernity, Cultural Studies). The enormity of the cultural diversity in India is reflected in Indian novels, plays, dramas, short stories and poems. This collection of articles attempts to capture the diversity of the Indian land/culture/landscape. It focuses on the history of India, partition, women’s voices, culture and society, and science and technology in Indian narratives, documentaries and movies.Special Issue: An Overview“Whatever has happened, has happened for goodWhatever is happening, is also for goodWhatever will happen, shall also be good.”- The Bhagavad-Gita.In the Mahabharata’s Kurukshetra battlefield, Lord Krishna counsels Arjuna on how everything that happens, regardless of whether it is good or bad, happens for a reason.Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future portrays the glorious/not-so-glorious times in history, the ever-changing crisis/peace of contemporary and hope for an unpredictable future through India’s literary and visual narratives. It focuses on comparison across cultures, technological advancements and diverse perspectives or approaches through the work of art produced in/on India. It projects India’s flora, fauna, historical monuments and rich cultural heritage. It illustrates how certain beliefs and practices come into existence – origin, evolution and present structure from a historical perspective. Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future gives a moment to recall, rectify and raise to make a promising future. This collection attempts to interpret various literary and visual narratives which are relevant at present.The Epics Reinterpreted: Highlighting Feminist Issues While Sustaining Deep Motif, examines the Women characters in the Epics – Ramayana and Mahabharata. It links the present setting to the violence against women described in the Epics Carl Jung’s archetypes are highlighted in a few chosen characters (Sita, Amba, Draupati). On one note, it emphasises the need for women to rise and fight for their rights.Fictive Testimony and Genre Tension: A Study of ‘Functionality’ of Genre in Manto’s Toba Tek Singh, analyses the story as a testimony and Manto as a witness. It discusses the ‘Testimony and Fictive Testimony’ in Literature. It explains how the works are segregated into a particular genre. The authors conclude that the testimony is to be used to understand or identify with the terror.Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the select Partition writings by Muslim Women, explores the predicament of women during the Partition of India through Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided (1990) and Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (2009). It addresses ‘Feminist Geography’ to escape precarity. It depicts a woman who is cut off from her own ethnic or religious group and tries to conjure up her memories as a means of coping with loneliness and insecurity.Nation Building Media Narratives and its Anti-Ecological Roots: An Eco-Aesthetic Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, analyses the post-Partition trauma in the fictional village, Mano Majra. It illustrates the cultural and spiritual bond between Mano Majrans — the inhabitants of Mano Majra — and nature (the land and river). It demonstrates how the media constructs broad myths about culture, religion, and nation. According to the authors, Mano Majrans place a high value on the environment, whilst the other boundaries are more concerned with nationalism and religion.Pain and Hopelessness among Indian Farmers: An Analysis of Deepa Bhatia’s Nero’s Guests documents the farmers’ suicides in India as a result of debt and decreased crop yield. The travels of Sainath and his encounters with the relatives of missing farmers have been chronicled in the documentary Nero’s Guests. It uses the Three Step Theory developed by David Klonsky and Alexis May and discusses suicide as a significant social issue. The authors conclude that farmers are the foundation of the Indian economy and that without them, India’s economy would collapse. It is therefore everyone’s responsibility—the people and the government—to give farmers hope so that they can overcome suicidal thoughts.The link between animals and children in various cultures is discussed in The New Sociology of Childhood: Animal Representations in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Garden in the Dunes, Amazon’s Oh My Dog, and Netflix’s Mughizh: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. It examines the chosen works from the perspectives of cross-cultural psychology and the New Sociology of Childhood. It emphasises kids as self-sufficient, engaged, and future members of society. It emphasises universal traits that apply to all people, regardless of culture. It acknowledges anthropomorphized cartoons create a bond between kids and animals.Life in Hiding: Censorship Challenges faced by Salman Rushdie and Perumal Murugan, explores the issues sparked by their writings. It draws attention to the aggression and concerns that were forced on them by the particular sect of society. It explains the writers’ experiences with the fatwa, court case, exile, and trauma.Female Body as the ‘Other’: Rituals and Biotechnical Approach using Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman and Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, questions the society that limits female bodies for procreation and objectification. It talks about how men and women are regarded differently, as well as the cultural ideals that apply to women. It explains infertility, which is attributed to women, as well as people’s ignorance and refusal to seek medical help in favour of adhering to traditional customs and engaging in numerous rituals for procreation.Life and (non) Living: Technological and Human Conglomeration in Android Kunjappan Version 5.25, explores how cyborgs and people will inevitably interact in the Malayalam film Android Kunjappan Version 5.25. It demonstrates the advantages, adaptability, and drawbacks of cyborgs in daily life. It emphasises how the cyborg absorbs cultural and religious notions. The authors argue that cyborgs are an inevitable development in the world and that until the flaws are fixed, humans must approach cyborgs with caution. The Challenges of Using Machine Translation While Translating Polysemous Words, discusses the difficulty of using machine translation to translate polysemous words from French to English (Google Translate). It serves as an example of how the machine chooses the formal or often-used meaning rather than the pragmatic meaning and applies it in every situation. It demonstrates how Machine Translation is unable to understand the pragmatic meaning of Polysemous terms because it is ignorant of the cultures of the source and target languages. It implies that Machine Translation will become extremely beneficial and user-friendly if the flaws are fixed.This collection of articles progresses through the literary and visual narratives of India that range from historical events to contemporary situations. It aims to record the stories that are silenced and untold through writing, film, and other forms of art. India’s artistic output was influenced by factors such as independence, partition, the Kashmir crisis, the Northeast Insurgency, marginalisation, religious disputes, environmental awareness, technical breakthroughs, Bollywood, and the Indian film industry. India now reflects a multitude of cultures and customs as a result of these occurrences. As we examine the Indian narratives produced to date, we can draw the conclusion that India has a vast array of tales to share with the rest of the world.Guest Editorial BoardGuest Editor-in-ChiefDr. Bhuvaneswari R, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. She has pursued her master’s at the University of Madras, Chennai and doctoral research at HNB Central University, Srinagar. Her research areas of interest are ELT, Children/Young Adult Literature, Canadian writings, Indian literature, and Contemporary Fiction. She is passionate about environmental humanities. She has authored and co-authored articles in National and International Journals.Guest EditorsCynthiya Rose J S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. Her research interests are Children’s Literature, Indian Literature and Graphic Novels.Maria Baptist S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. His research interests include Crime/Detective fiction and Indian Literature.MembersDr. Sufina K, School of Science and Humanities, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, IndiaDr. Narendiran S, Department of Science and Humanities, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
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Sharma, Indira, Shruti Srivastava, MS Bhatia, Uday Chaudhuri, Sonia Parial, Avdesh Sharma, Dinesh Kataria, and Neena Bohra. "Violence against women." Indian Journal of Psychiatry 57, no. 6 (2015): 333. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.161500.
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Pinho, Camila Noronha de, Cemille Luz Alves, Daniela Silva Leite, Dennis Ramos Alves, Vera Lúcia Lameira Picanço, and Eugênia Suely Belém de Sousa. "Violence against women." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 325–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol10.iss1.3621.
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Violence against women is any form of discrimination, aggression or coercion, caused by the simple fact that the victim is a woman and causes physical, psychological, sexual, or moral damage, whether in the public or private sphere. It is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between genders, which were gradually built and which continue today, showing the importance of knowledge of the actions of the Unified Health System (SUS) that coordinate and guide the conduct of health professionals, especially from the doctor. The present study aims to investigate medical conduct in the care of women victims of violence, SUS actions, and programs, specifically carried out at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará Foundation. This is a quantitative study and the instrument used was a questionnaire, prepared by the authors. Thirty-three physicians answered the questionnaire, where 97% have already assisted women in situations of violence, 97% know the protocols for the care of women victims of violence, and 67% judge public health actions to support these victims as ineffective. The data allow us to conclude that SUS actions have the potential to have a direct impact in the context of violence against women, if the necessary support is provided to make complaints, in addition to long-term protection and prevention protocols.