You can't escape: inside and outside the ‘slasher’ movie

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona Miller
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Slasher Films

Since the 1970s, the ‘slasher’ movie, with its violence towards women and the surviving ‘final girl’, has been a constant presence in the horror genre to the delight of some and the perplexed dismay of others. Traditional academic approaches to the genre have tended to make assumptions about who is watching these films and why. This article uses a Jungian-inflected approach to reconsider the potential meaning of the genre, suggesting that the violence in the films is less an exhortation to violence against women, but rather a representation of women's experience of patriarchy, with the ‘final girl’ as a figure of resistance. The article also considers the meaning of the more contemporary ‘final girl as perpetrator’ slasher films.

Violence Against Women in the Yugoslav war as told by Women-Refugees

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Stevanović
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Women Refugees ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
Close Vicinity ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Definition Of

In the first part of the paper the author discusses and interprets the results of research carried out in 1994, on the basis of interviews with 70 women refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, presently situated in Serbia and Montenegro. Also, the first part of the paper was written as a result of the interviews which the group of authors conducted with 54 women refugees from Krajina in the period between 1 January 1995 and 15 March 1996 in Serbia, about their own definition of violence in war, which means that their subjective definition was given priority over the objective definition. This research was aimed at the analysis of women's experience of violence in the war conflict in our close vicinity, whose largest number of victims, as ever, were children and women. We tried to help the women to articulate their own experiences, in such a manner to avoid them being hurt in the process, but rather to relieve their burdens of piled up fears and emotions. In the second part of the paper the author evaluates the present situation in this area, especially the process of social adaptation.

scholarly journals Misrecognized Violence against Women and Perpetrated by Women. Seeking Remedies

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Joanna Dutka
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Physical Injury ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Prevention Of Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Common Misconceptions ◽  
The Way

This paper explores the misrecognition of women's experience with violence in order to understand better what kinds of approaches to the problem would make it possible to design successful strategies for the prevention of violence. Violence itself, as well as common misconceptions regarding its mechanisms, carries ramifications that go far beyond direct and physical injury. The prevalence of violence and lack of social awareness regarding its mechanisms result in limitations to the social participation of many individuals and groups. Among the groups affected, women have an important place, both due to their number and the way that femininity relates to and disturbs other identities.

The Slasher Film

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Bryan Turnock
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Slasher Film ◽  
Slasher Films ◽  
Lasting Influence

This chapter argues that of all the horror genre's many strands and variations, the original 'slasher' cycle of the 1970s and early 1980s remains the most disreputable and critically vilified, yet its commercial popularity and lasting influence are unquestionable. Whilst rarely making out-and-out slashers themselves, major Hollywood studios cashed in by buying finished films from their independent producers, giving the makers an instant profit and the studios a cheap marketable film virtually guaranteed an audience of teenagers. The chapter examines a film frequently cited as a forerunner of the slasher, one heavily influenced by the Italian giallo genre of crime fiction. In diverging from the established conventions of the giallo, Mario Bava's Bay of Blood (1971) introduced a number of narrative and aesthetic features found in many of the slasher films that followed. The chapter then considers the influence of the video industry on the evolution of the horror genre (and vice versa), and looks at the issue of censorship as it assesses the British 'video nasties' scare of the early 1980s.

Violence against women in Colombia under conditions of civil war

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haydee del Carmen Marin Ordonez
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Work Done

This research explores women’s experience of violence in civil war in Colombia. Its purposeis to allow women’s voices to be heard. Mostly women are unwillingly participants in the warand are at the mercy of competing armed groups. The research includes a review of academicstudies into the nature of violence, in particular violence against women, with an emphasis ongender and the work of feminist scholars. As violence against women in a civil war is littlestudied, is underreported and the violence is invisible the research also relies on reports byhuman rights groups and other organisations supporting women. It includes an examinationof the historical background and the nature of the civil war in Colombia and of work done byscholars into violence against women in other civil wars, notably in the Balkans.The data was obtained using semi-structured interviews with five women and an expertinterview with the director of an NGO as primary sources and 135 testimonies as secondarysources, all taken from the department of Santander in north-eastern Colombia. This materialwas then analysed and triangulated.The research explores how women’s experience and definition of violence differs fromthat of men, which is the predominant narrative. Women’s experience of war tends to bepassive, of a multiplicity of events which create feelings of helplessness and depression. The loss of a husband or relatives is accompanied by displacement, poverty, becoming the solehead of a household, threats and control by armed groups, all resulting in feelings ofabandonment and isolation. This occurs in the context of a patriarchal social system whichallows violence against women and of a state which is either complicit in the violence,particularly of paramilitary groups, or is too weak to provide support for victims.

Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the European Union: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Gracia ◽  
Marisol Lila ◽  
Faraj A. Santirso
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women ◽  
The Eu

Abstract. Attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) are increasingly recognized as central to understanding of this major social and public health problem, and guide the development of more effective prevention efforts. However, to date this area of research is underdeveloped in western societies, and in particular in the EU. The present study aims to provide a systematic review of quantitative studies addressing attitudes toward IPVAW conducted in the EU. The review was conducted through Web of Science, PsychINFO, Medline, EMBASE, PUBMED, and the Cochrane Library, in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) recommendations. This review aimed to identify empirical studies conducted in the EU, published in English in peer-reviewed journals from 2000 to 2018, and analyzing attitudes toward IPVAW. A total of 62 of 176 eligible articles were selected according to inclusion criteria. Four sets of attitudes toward IPVAW were identified as the main focus of the studies: legitimation, acceptability, attitudes toward intervention, and perceived severity. Four main research themes regarding attitudes toward IPVAW emerged: correlates of attitudes, attitudes as predictors, validation of scales, and attitude change interventions. Although interest in this research area has been growing in recent years, the systematic review revealed important gaps in current knowledge on attitudes toward IPVAW in the EU that limits its potential to inform public policy. The review outlines directions for future study and suggests that to better inform policy making, these future research efforts would benefit from an EU-level perspective.

Doing violence to "…violence against women."

1990 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 1386-1387
Author(s):  
Paul Block
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women
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