Pornography

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa Smith
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Outer Edge ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Sexual Media

The effects of pornography and sexual media are endlessly debated. The debate runs the gamut from fears of moral decline, through coarsening of attitudes, to the promotion and normalization of male violence against women and the rising problems of sex and/or pornography addictions. Historically, pornography has been understood in relation to the category of obscenity. In other words, it depicts actions, functions, and identities that lie on the outer edge of the permissible and have the potential to “deprave and corrupt” likely viewers. In more recent times, the focus has moved away from ideas of corruption of individual viewers toward the broader category of cultural “harms” and effects on society.

Male violence against women

2018 ◽  
pp. 394-402
Author(s):  
Shana L. Maier ◽  
Raquel Kennedy Bergen
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Male Violence

scholarly journals Filmic witness to the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-642
Author(s):  
CARRIE RENTSCHLER
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Street ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

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.

The Dance of Dependency: A Genealogy of Domestic Violence Discourse

Hypatia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen J. Ferraro
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Feminist Activism

Domestic violence discourse challenges cultural acceptance of male violence against women, yet it is often constituted by gendered, racialized, and class-based hierarchies. Transformative efforts have not escaped traces of these hierarchies. Emancipatory ideals guiding 1970s feminist activism have collided with conservative impulses to maintain and strengthen family relationships. Crime control discourse undermines critiques of dominance through its focus on individual men. Domestic violence discourse exemplifies both resistance to and replication of hierarchies of power.

A Review of Economic Consequences and Costs of Male Violence Against Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-434
Author(s):  
M. J. López-Sánchez ◽  
J. A. Belso-Martínez ◽  
J. L. Hervás-Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
World Health ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Country Study ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Domestic Violence And Abuse ◽  
Initial Results

This article focuses on male violence against women. As it takes place in what is often considered to be ‘the private sphere’ of the home, violence is difficult to prove, to measure, to prevent and easy to ignore. A multi-country study (WHO, 2005, WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence against women: Summary report of initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and women’s responses, Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization) shows that there are wide variations between countries resulting in 15 per cent to 71 per cent of women aged between 15 and 49 years saying that they have been victims of physical or sexual violence in intimate relationships. This article reviews and summarises literature that analyse types of economic costs that result from domestic violence and abuse perpetrated against women.

scholarly journals Justicia y género en Nariño en casos de violencia contra las mujeres

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Isabel Goyes Moreno ◽  
Sandra Montezuma M.
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
El Alto ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Circuit Courts

Resumen: Como resultado de una revisión de los fallosproferidos por los juzgados municipales, los juzgadosde circuito y la Sala Penal del Tribunal Superior delDistrito Judicial de Pasto, entre los años 2005 y 2011,en relación con los delitos de violencia cometidos contramujeres, fue posible establecer que las principales formasde agresión contra la mujer se enmarcan dentro delos delitos de acceso carnal violento, actos sexuales yacceso carnal abusivo con menor de 14 años, homicidio,violencia intrafamiliar y lesiones personales. La parejao ex pareja sentimental de las mujeres, se constituye enuno de los principales victimarios en estos casos, aunqueresulta alarmante el alto porcentaje de episodios en losque el agresor forma parte del grupo familiar de la víctima,especialmente aquellos tan cercanos en grado deconsanguinidad como lo es el padre, el abuelo, el tío o elhijo. Causa gran preocupación el tiempo trascurrido entrela ocurrencia de los hechos y la fecha del fallo, situaciónque en muchos casos supera los siete años. Además,en la mayoría de administradores de justicia pervivenformas patriarcales de entender los roles de hombres ymujeres en la vida social, lo que se manifiesta en unajusticia comprensiva de la violencia masculina y condenatoriade los roles femeninos no tradicionales.Palabras clave: justicia, género, violencia, mujeres, NariñoJustice and Gender in Nariño in Cases of Violenceagainst WomenAbstract: Following a review of the judgments handeddown by the municipal courts, circuit courts and theCriminal Division of the Superior Court of the JudicialDistrict of Pasto, between 2005 and 2011, in relationto crimes of violence against women, it was possibleto establish that the most common forms of aggressionagainst women were violent carnal acts, sexual and abusivecarnal acts with girls under 14 years of age, homicide,family violence and personal lesions. The woman’spartner or ex-partner is one of the most common aggressors,although it is alarming that in high percentagesof cases the aggressor is a member of the family, especiallyfathers, grandfathers, uncles and sons. It is alsoworrisome that the time lapse between the occurrenceof the facts and the sentence given was in many casesmore than seven years. Additionally, most administratorsof justice exhibit patriarchal ways of understanding theroles of men and women in society, which is manifestedin judicial leniency toward male violence and condemnationof non-traditional female roles.Keywords: justice, gender, violence, women, Nariño

scholarly journals Reflecting on criminalizing male violence against women under human rights and human security discourses: a feminist legal and policy analysis

Global Jurist ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Pividori ◽  
Paola Degani
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Individual Accountability

Abstract Violence against women is an established issue of concern under international law as well as in the international security domain. More in general, it is contended that issues related to gender-based violence need to be countered with strategies aimed at fighting sexual hierarchies and structural discrimination affecting women at different levels and in different contexts. Despite this, international legal and policy responses to male violence against women are increasingly turning to criminal law enforcement with a strict focus on perpetrators’ individual accountability. The article critically analyzes this trend within the two international legal and policy frameworks that in the past decades have most consistently integrated the issue of violence against women, that is, human security and human rights. The article contends that the increasing focus on criminalization that has emerged in both these frameworks risks obfuscating and downsizing the collective and “public” dimension of States’ responsibility with regards the social phenomenon of violence. Indeed, criminalization strategies allow States to circumvent their duty to work on the social, political and economic structural dimensions at the root of this severe form of violation women’s human rights.

Anthropological Perspectives on Two Documentary Films on Women in the Middle East

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
Esther Hertzog
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Honor Killing

In this essay, I refer to two documentaries demonstrating some common features of male violence against women in the Jewish and Palestinian societies in Israel. Abeer Zaibak Haddad’s film about ‘honor killing’ illustrates the profound threat on girls’ and women’s physical safety. Yael Katzir’s film is about Jewish women’s struggle for religious rights. It is argued that being subjugated to patriarchal control, both Arab and Jewish women are denied fundamental rights. This understanding implies that, despite basic differences in socio-economic conditions and civil rights, women’s oppression is present in cultures that are perceived as ‘modern’ and ‘advanced’ just like in those that are perceived as the opposite. Both films point to the failure of the state to ensure women’s rights and safety and to women’s compliance to men’s oppression.

The culture and context of male violence against women.

1994 ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary P. Koss ◽  
Lisa A. Goodman ◽  
Angela Browne ◽  
Louise F. Fitzgerald ◽  
Gwendolyn Puryear Keita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Male Violence

scholarly journals Male violence or patriarchal violence? Global Trends in Men and Violence

2016 ◽  
pp. 316-330
Author(s):  
Gary Barker
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Multiple Power ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Socially Excluded

Abstract Policies and research have focused recently on men's use of violence against women, and the terms "gender-based violence" or "domestic violence" have often been used rather than "patriarchal violence." This article argues that instead of talking about "male violence," or gender-based violence, a more useful analytical framework is "patriarchal violence." Applying this lens examines how violence is based in complex power relations - with low-income men and men in specific groups, such as indigenous men or men of socially excluded ethnic groups, experiencing it more at the hands of more powerful men. The article argues for moving beyond a simplistic repressive model of violence prevention that often ignores structural inequalities, to one that understands intersectionalities and multiple power dimensions while also taking into account power dimensions of men's violence against women.

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