Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance

This essay examines two Portuguese novels about colonialism and its legacies: António Lobo Antunes’s Fado Alexandrino (1983) and Aida Gomes’s Os Pretos de Pousaflores ( The Blacks from Pousaflores) (2011). Fado Alexandrino perpetuates the use of Black women’s raped bodies as a plot device to represent colonial violence, while Gomes’s narrative empowers racialized victims of sexual abuse and challenges dominant public memories of the Colonial War. A close reading of these novels, contextualized against the background of scholarly debates about the representation of sexual violence, exposes both the perils and potential of cultural works to preserve the memory of rape in armed conflict.

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Airing Dirty Laundry and Squealing on Pigs

Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190931650.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 83-110

Author(s):

Abigail C. Saguy

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Coming Out ◽

The Internet ◽

Take Back ◽

Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽

Clothesline Project

This chapter examines the use of coming out tactics to draw attention to sexual violence—focusing on the internet-based #MeToo movement that began in 2017. It shows how the internet-based #MeToo built not only on Tarana Burke’s earlier offline Me Too movement, but also on the Clothesline Project, Take Back the Night marches, and “slutwalks.” It examines the extent to which each of these movements has I dentified the issue of sexual violence versus the identity of the victim, perpetrator, or both. It shows how and why the act of naming one’s harasser, assaulter, or rapist has been controversial—hearkening back to debates over outing in the 1990s. While some worry that people will be falsely accused, others argue that the cards are stacked against victims of sexual abuse and that they need to use whatever means possible to protect and defend themselves.

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Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package

Journal of Peace Research ◽

10.1177/00223433211044674 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002234332110446

Author(s):

Logan Dumaine ◽

Ragnhild Nordås ◽

Maria Gargiulo ◽

Elisabeth Jean Wood

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

Forced Marriage ◽

Sexual Slavery ◽

Forced Sterilization ◽

Sexual Torture ◽

Research Questions ◽

Forced Prostitution ◽

Global Patterns

Scholars increasingly call for documentation and analysis of specific forms of conflict-related sexual violence. Moreover, accountability for crimes is stronger when specific patterns of victimization are documented. This article introduces the Repertoires of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (RSVAC) data package, which assembles reports from 1989 to 2015 of forms of sexual violence by government/states forces, insurgent/rebel organizations, and pro-government militias for each conflict and year. RSVAC compiles the reported prevalence of eight forms of sexual violence – rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage, forced prostitution, sexual mutilation, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization and abortion, non-penetrative sexual torture, and sexual abuse (as well as that of multiple-perpetrator reports of each form). It includes extensive qualitative notes on reported incidents, as well as ‘conflict manuscripts’ that include the relevant portions of source documents. Disaggregating ‘sexual violence’ into its distinct forms enables analysis of the reported presence of forms of sexual violence across time, conflicts, and organizations. We illustrate its usefulness by highlighting hitherto neglected global patterns it suggests, and also discuss limitations, potential biases and underreporting that users need to take into account. We outline several research questions that the data can help answer and suggest how the data package could inform policy efforts to address sexual violence and its consequences.

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Narasi Kekerasan Seksual pada Gay Anak: Negara Absen dalam Perlindungan?

Raheema ◽

10.24260/raheema.v3i1.565 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nikodimus Niko

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Sexual Orientation ◽

Data Collection ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Analysis Approach ◽

Scientific Journals ◽

Victims Of Sexual Abuse

Gay were victims of sexual abuse who tends to blame and thought to be the cause of sexual violence. Sexual orientation tend to be justification the cause of action of sexual abuse. This paper describes exploration paradox of sexual violence on gay children, and act done by state in effort to protection the victims. The reseacrh method used was descriptive analysis approach. Data collection used was secondary data from literature and scientific journals. On gay children as the victim justifiying as a criminal of sexual violence because his sexual orientation.

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#MeToo and testimonial injustice: An investigation of moral and conceptual knowledge

Philosophy & Social Criticism ◽

10.1177/01914537211017578 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 019145372110175

Author(s):

Hilkje C Hänel

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Conceptual Knowledge ◽

Social Groups ◽

Minority Communities ◽

Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽

Testimonial Injustice ◽

Conceptual Progress

Two decades ago, Tarana Burke started using the phrase ‘me too’ to release victims of sexual abuse and rape from their shame and to empower girls from minority communities. In 2017, actress Alyssa Milano made the hashtag #MeToo go viral. This article’s concern is with the role of testimonial practices in the context of sexual violence. While many feminists have claimed that the word of those who claim to being sexually violated by others (should) have political and/or epistemic priority, others have failed to recognize the harm and injury of instances of sexual violence that are not yet acknowledged as such and failed to listen to victims from marginalized social groups. In fact, some feminists have attacked #MeToo for mingling accounts of ‘proper’ sexual violence and accounts that are not ‘proper’ experiences of sexual violence. My aim in this article is to show why this critique is problematic and find a philosophically fruitful way to understand the #MeToo-movement as a movement that strives for moral and conceptual progress.

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