Gender, Sexuality and Violence: Permissible Violence Against Women During the Partition of India and Pakistan

Hawwa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 396-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepa Narasimhan-Madhavan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Communal Violence ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Partition Of India

AbstractAugust 15, 1947 marked the division of India and the birth of Pakistan and resulted in a mass migration of Hindus to India and Muslims to the newly formed Pakistan. This day also marked the worst communal violence in India's history. The threats to family, religion, national status and security during the partition magnified the tension over ownership and honor in female sexuality, leading to terrible violence inflicted against the women of both societies. The sexual violence that occurred during the time of the partition of India and Pakistan illustrated an extreme manifestation of the societal view of women's sexuality, namely the need to control and own her. The violence also illustrated how women's sexuality symbolically represented power in the arrangement of gender relations in both the Hindu and Islamic communities in India. This article will address these concepts of sexuality through the examination of the partition of India and Pakistan as a theatre, in which, due to the heightened emotion of the situation, sexuality and power became especially commingled.

Tolkien and Rape

Extrapolation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
T. S. Miller ◽  
Elizabeth Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Monstrous Feminine

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.

Views of Women’s Sexuality and Violence Against Women in Turkey

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Gursoy ◽  
William F. McCool ◽  
Serap Sahinoglu ◽  
Yasemin Yavuz Genc
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality

Transforming Lesbian Sexuality

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther D. Rothblum
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Lesbian Relationship ◽  
Lesbian Sexuality ◽  
The Media

Women are objectified and sexualized by the media and the economy, so that they live in a culture of sex. Lesbians are excluded from the mainstream sexual and appearance norms for women, yet are affected by these norms, including the association of sex and violence against women. The word sexuality has been used to connote both sexual orientation and sexual activity, and it is argued that this dual meaning illustrates the dominance of patriarchal definitions of women's sexuality. This article discusses methodologic issues in understanding who is a lesbian and presents various models or dimensions for understanding who is included in research about lesbians. It asks the question “What is sex?” and reviews the implications of this question for lesbian sexual activity. This question has implications for a collorary question: “What is a lesbian relationship?”, and the article discusses the implications of this question on various forms of sexual and nonsexual relationships among lesbians.

scholarly journals PEREMPUAN DI LUAR JALUR: SEKSUALITAS PEREMPUAN DALAM DUA CERPEN KARYA SUWARSIH DJOJOPUSPITO (Women Out of the Line: Women’s Sexuality in Two Short Stories by Suwarsih Djojopuspito)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Aquarini Priyatna, M.A., M.Hum., Ph.D.
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Marital Relationships ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Men I ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology

Tulisan ini mendiskusikan isu seksualitas dalam dua cerpen karya Suwarsih Djojopuspito, yakni Seruling di Malam Hari dan Artinah. Penelitian ini meletakan isu seksualitas dalam kedua cerpen tersebut dalam kerangka kajian gender dan feminis. Suwarsih adalah  salah  satu penulis perempuan pionir di Indonesia yang karyanya secara lugas mengambil posisi yang resisten terhadap ideologi patriarki. Dalam kedua cerpen yang dibahas, Suwarsih menunjukkan timpangnya praktik-praktik keseharian dalam relasi inti antara perempuan dan laki-laki, terutama dalam perkawinan. Melalui narasi dan penggambaran tokoh, ditunjukkan bahwa ideologi patriarki yang termanifestasi dalam nilai-nilai heteronormativitas telah menempatkan seksualitas laki-laki sebagai normatif dan berterima, sementara seksualitas perempuan sebagai peripheral saja terhadap seksualitas laki-laki. Juga diperlihatkan, bagaimana nilai-nilai patriarki yang diwujudkan dalam relasi personal menempatkan perempuan dalam posisi yang lebih lemah. Meskipun demikian, kedua cerpen mengambil posisi yang tidak memihak posisi laki-laki, melainkan memberikan perempuan agensi yang menyuarakan tubuh dan seksualitas perempuan sebagai bagian dari subjektivitas perempuan sebagaimana seksualitas adalah bagian dari laki-laki.Abstract: This writing examines the issues of sexuality in two short stories by Suwarsih Djojopuspito’s “Seruling di Malam Hari” and “Artinah”. This research locates sexuality in the two short stories in the framework of gender and feminist studies. Suwarsih is among the pioneering woman writer in Ind onesi a. Her wor ks ha ve been recogni zed a s a form of resista nce t oward  the domin ant patriarchal ideology. In the two short stories discussed in this article, Suwarsih elaborates the bias ag ai ns t wo men  i n th e everyda y pr actices  o f in ti mat e rela ti ons  b et ween  women an d men, particularly in marital relationships. Through the narrative and the portrayal of the characters, the short stories show that the ideology of patriarchy as manifested in the heteronormative values have established men’s sexuality as normative and acceptable, while female sexuality is  only as peripheral to men’s sexuality. Likewise, the two short stories also show that patriarchal values apparent in personal relationships have put women in the inferior position. However, the two short stories articulate feminist by giving the women’s characters the agency to articulate their bodies and sexuality as important parts of their subjectivity as a woman just like they are the important part of men’s.

scholarly journals OF GOD’S IMAGE, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND FEMINIST REFLECTIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-137
Author(s):  
Sidney K Berman
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
God's Image ◽  
Biblical Teaching

This article interrogates what appears to be an inconsistency – the enduring prevalence of Christianity and the surge of gender-based violence (henceforth GBV) in Botswana, particularly as evidenced by murder-suicides. It investigates the possibility of a connection between Christianity and GBV. To search for such a connection, I used a feminist analytical approach to analyse the text of Hosea, Christian/Biblical teachings relating to gender and traditional Setswana socialisation. The book of Hosea, some Biblical teachings and some aspects of Setswana culture separate men and women in dualistic terms, present women as inferior to men, perceive women’s sexuality as devious, and prescribe violent control of women. Since this flawed outlook is evident in GBV in Botswana, I was led to investigate a hypothetical connection between GBV and Christian/ Biblical teaching. The article ends with recommendations for a response and for reconstructing a gender-empowering alternative.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women Subjects ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Visual Artist

In many cases, desire lies like a bodily boundary between the everyday and the unspeakable. —Samuel R. Delany1 Black female visual artist crystal am nelson’s Building Me a Home (2009), an eight-minute, three channel video, engages the unspeakable pleasures of black female sexuality that anchor this book, an exploration of black women, BDSM, and pornography that presents BDSM as a stage for analyzing black women’s sexuality and its representation in order to unveil the complex desires and self-making practices of black women subjects....

Lament as Womanist Healing in Times of Global Violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-155
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Communal Violence ◽  
Loss And Grief ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Women And Girls

Globally, violence against women and girls is a pandemic—resulting in massive trauma and death. Certain scriptures and cultural texts condone the aggression; others adamantly protest heinous, unjust behaviors. Lament provides an avenue for naming and processing individual and communal violence, grief, and pain. This essay explores lament as response to pain and suffering generated amidst sexual and domestic violence, from a global womanist perspective. After providing a brief overview of my womanist biblical hermeneutic, this essay: (1) explores lament as a response to patriarchal misogynistic violence in Scripture, in dialog with global domestic violence; (2) explores lament embodied in selected Psalms, lamentations, and a lament by Beyoncé; and (3) concludes by invoking lament as a pathway of engaging global, daily loss and grief.

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