Based on the article ‘After Gang Rape of Girl, 16, First a Fine, and Then a Murder’ written by Kai Schultz. Throughout my entire reading of the essay, it is crystal clear that the article focuses on the criminal cases that happen in the country. It is quite shocking as the number of cases increasing day by day, most of the criminal cases involving the violence, murdered and rape cases towards women. The author begins the article by stating the recent gang rape and killing that happen in that country and state the weakness of the recent government in handling the sexual assault in the country. Kai Schultz drives most of his argument in explaining that even crimes happened, the people would take advantage at the victim.…
These models provide different lenses to see the intersection of multiple forms of oppression. Women are exposed to violence in home, sexual assault, sexual harassment and corporate violence. As a result, women experiences a wide range of health impacts as a consequence of violence including direct physical consequences of inquiry and sexual abuse, long term consequences of stress and mental and emotional abuse. So, steps needs to be taken to prevent violence against women by understanding the women’s diversity and drawing attention to the ways, where people in positions of professional privilege and power have potential to either reproduce and reinforce, or resist and oppose…
Office for Victims of Crime. "Rape Is a Serious Problem for Women." Violence against Women. Ed. James D. Torr. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999. Current Controversies. Rpt. from "Rape and Sexual Assault." 2006 Resource Guide for National Crime Victims ' Rights Week. 2006. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 9 July 2013.…
According to Burt (1980), rape myths are defined as ‘prejudicial, stereotype or false beliefs about rape, rape victims and rapists’ that serve as a kind of denial and justify male sexual aggression towards women. Burt (1980) identified the examples of rape myths such as 1) “she asked for it”; 2) “it wasn't really rape”; 3) “he didn't mean to”; 4) “she wanted it”; 5) “she liked it”; 6) “rape is a trivial event”; and 7) “rape is a deviant event”. Rape myths vary among societies and cultures(Burt 1980). Rape myths are also highly related to why the rape cases are under-reported (Grubb and Turner 2012). However, they consistently follow a pattern, which they blame the victim for their rape, express a disbelief in claims of rape, exonerate the perpetrator…
After ten months of a horrible marriage, November 21, 2010 in a public parking, my so called husband was angry at me for getting into a terrible car accident. He began choking me, and put a knife to my neck, I do not remember exactly what I did but I did scream until the cops got there. I denied everything, so they let us go, and the police escorted me to my family’s house and I stayed there. As I look back at my denial, I can find similarities with the Congolese women. For example in page 164, when Lisa asks the women “how many of you have been raped?” a few hands go up then quickly retreat. These women won’t talk about sexual violence in public, I am exactly the same…
The reaction that women also commit violence against women is a counter argument against the notion that women are unjustly facing violent discrimination in society. In this course we talked about FGM (female genital mutilation) and honour killings as examples of woman on woman violence. Though women do play important roles in both of these acts of violence, I think the cause is bigger than any one sex.…
Sexual assault occurs due to the stereotyped theory that powerful positions that men may have in society, this wider image of women living in a society which is dominated by men arises from past gender binaries. Most individuals seek to understand the several reasons why it is them that become victims of sexual assault or abuse. These unidentified reasons may vary from the fear of one leading this crime onto them, feeling that life is unfair and accounting for the…
Violence against women (VAW) is an issue that, for many years, was widely unrecognized. However, the rise of the feminist movement in the 1970’s brought this issue back to the forefront of public policy. While the first wave of feminism focused on topics such as women’s suffrage and the right to vote, this second wave expanded to topics concerning sexuality, legal inequalities, and reproductive rights. Women were openly discussing their life experiences and bringing attention to these barriers (Mallicoat, 2015).One of the most important roles this feminist movement played was establishing violence against women as a social problem that concerned not only public health but also the criminal justice system. Having an accurate measure of VAW is…
When women are trapped in violent marriages, abused, and overly under the control of their husbands, that consider a violence against women. I feel like the differences found in these cultural factors as mentioned above effects of socioeconomic variables, such as neighborhood disadvantage and low education and employment status, particularly for the perpetrators of violence against Filipino and African-American women. In addition, racial discrimination towards African-American men may lead to lessen access to resources and circumstances, causing tension and violence among African-American men. As an opinion, community and cultural context of violence between cultures especially African-American men have adopted alternative ways of utilizing their “manhood” because the traditional methods have been unreachable for them—establishing manhood includes violence. Every day violence that is seen as “not serious”: harassing girls in the street because of what she is wearing. Men can stop violence by expanding their minds regarding what violence looks like and be ethical. Sexuality education can contribute an appropriate factor for educating individuals especially students about sexual violence. As an example, differentiating between “good” and “bad” touch, learning how to express feelings, and to ask for help…
Violence towards the female population in countries all over the world is continues to be prevalent because there are no laws at the time to prevent such behavior, which further promote negative cultural norms opposing…
The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) is a major step in the effort to end violence against women and girls across the globe. It directs the US government to create a comprehensive, five-year strategy to reduce violence in up to 20 diverse countries identified as having severe levels of violence against women. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women has been commemorated on November 25 for more than three decades. It’s a day each year when my colleagues and I focus on the courageous women we have met, the injustices they’ve suffered, and the hope they inspire.…
WHO. “Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women, taking action and generating evidence.” ISBN 978 92 4 156400 7. (2010) 6-7…
Violent crimes like forcible rape cannot be taken lightly. Why such crimes are committed puts some societies back against the wall and forces it to come up with an answer, especially when a nation tries to balance its gender equality. In society, today and in this twenty-first century, rape is for once gaining more traction in awareness, how it can be avoided, and theories can help with finding reasons behind these crimes.…
Cross-cultural research has shown that rape is most common in cultures that are dominated by males and violence. This means cultures in which males dominate the political decisions and cultures adhering to the male ideology of toughness, interpersonal violence and war (Groth 7). In a culture of people with more traditional or sexist gender role, attitudes are more tolerant of rape than are people with more nontraditional attitudes. Traditional men are more likely to report that they would commit rape if they knew they would not be caught; some researchers have found that a traditional man is much more likely to commit a rape than a nontraditional man is. Many attitudes in our culture perpetuate rape, for example: A husband is entitled to have sex with his wife," "A 'real man' never passes up a chance to have sex," and, "A women who…
Stereotypes. We've all used them when talking about someone and have all hear someone use the when describing us. But how deep do stereotypical cuts run? How do stereotypes contribute to violence and oppression?…