Female Pleasure and the Gender Politics of “Girliyapa”

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Shailendra Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Girl Power ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Online Entertainment ◽  
Structural Inequalities

In this article, I examine the discursive portrayals of gendered experience and subject positions through Sarjita Jain’s “Girliyapa,” an online entertainment channel (on YouTube) for female-oriented content in India. I demonstrate how the question of female pleasure that the channel repeatedly foregrounds by way of introducing relatively censored topics of discussion (such as girls buying condoms or articulating their orientation toward same-sex love) is inextricably intertwined with a gender politics that never turns a blind eye to the existing conventions, stereotypes, or structural inequalities that precipitate gender-based violence and discrimination throughout the country. The widespread prevalence of marital rape, color prejudice, and workplace sexism which, in turn, does not allow for a straightforward valorization of girl power is thus satirically interrogated by “Girliyapa.”

Gender-Based Violence and Legal Frameworks

2020 ◽  
pp. 365-377
Author(s):  
Maria Louis
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Muscle Power ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Effective Deterrent ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Gender-based violence (GBV) has grown into a pandemic. It has spread its tentacles so far and wide that no country or community in the 21st century is immune from it. There are, of course, laws to prevent GBV and punish the perpetrators of GBV. But, the laws, in general, pathetically fail to yield the desired result and fail to play the role of an effective deterrent as lawmakers themselves, most often, become lawbreakers. It is well known that patriarchy has a vested interest in gender inequality, which is the root cause of GBV. The dominant gender, male, uses violence against all other genders, including female and third gender, as a lethal weapon to prove their muscle-power, pseudo-superiority, and enjoy what is not morally and ethically and legally right. GBV is undoubtedly a human right violation. However, in the land of nonviolence, India, marital rape, among others, is still legal. Things are slowly changing, and it gives hope.

scholarly journals “If You Buy a Cup, Why Would You Not Use It?” Marital Rape: The Acceptable Face of Gender Based Violence

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 321-325
Author(s):  
Fareda Banda
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
First Year ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Law ◽  
Gender Based

There are cases that one never forgets. DPP v. Morgan is one of those for me. I read it as an eighteen-year-old in my first year of law school. It was in the criminal law class where we were being taught about rape. The facts left me shocked and outraged. Morgan went out drinking with his friends. At the end of the night, he invited the friends back to his house. He told them that they could have sex with his wife and added that they should not worry if she appeared to resist, because she liked it that way. The friends duly came over and helped themselves to his wife as per his instructions. Morgan also forced her to have sex with him despite her protestations. She experienced injuries which necessitated medical treatment. His friends were convicted of rape, but he was convicted of indecent assault. This seemed strange. Had they all not forced her to have sex with them despite her clearly expressed refusal? Why was he charged with a lesser crime? The reason was simple: he was her husband. Under the law as it then operated in England, there was no recognition of marital rape. Her consent to lifelong sex on demand, even if it was against her will, was taken as part of the contract of marriage. The words “I do” spoken at the time of the marriage, were taken to mean free access for the husband for as long as they both lived, or until the marriage was legally dissolved or a formal separation was in place.

Traversing the ‘Particular’ through the ‘Universal’: The Politics of Negotiating Violent Masculinities in Cambodia

2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Lilja
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Men's Groups ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Depth Interviews

The article analyses programmes against gender-based violence (GBV) in Cambodia in order to understand what notions of power, agency and resistance reside within these programmes. The text relies on in-depth interviews with four different organisations in Cambodia. The interviews display a number of hands-on practices of resistance against GBV, which require a broad discussion of identity in order to be fully understood. In particular, the organisations emphasize the importance of approaching men—in men's groups, as trainers and role models—in the resistance against GBV. In their approach to Cambodian men, the trainers mixed representations of a more ‘particular’ character with representations of a more ‘universal’ appearance. Both in the establishment of new subject positions and new discourses, the Cambodian trainers leaned upon and alternated between universal and particular notions. In addition, men's ‘particular’ subject positions became the very lens through which they considered ‘universal’ notions of violent masculinities. New aspects of the resistance against GBV thus become visible as the concepts of universalism and particularism are put in use. It is in the nexus between ‘universal’ and ‘particular’ representations that a non-violent masculinity is fostered.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jane K. Stoever
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Domestic Violence Movement

The book, THE POLITICIZATION OF SAFETY, will critically explore political dimensions of interventions in or failures to intervene in domestic violence. The Introduction identifies how domestic violence is commonly assumed to be a bipartisan, nonpolitical issue, yet racial and gender politics, the move toward criminalization, reproductive justice concerns, gun control debates, and other factors and political interests significantly shape responses to domestic violence. The development of the anti-domestic violence movement and has a complex history, and the way forward during the Trump Era will certainly be fraught as protections and services for survivors of gender-based violence are under siege.

Controversial advertising: transgressing the taboo of gender-based violence

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 1448-1469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Gurrieri ◽  
Jan Brace-Govan ◽  
Helene Cherrier
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Cultural Intermediaries ◽  
Gender Based

Purpose To date, the cultural and societal effects of controversial advertising have been insufficiently considered. This study aims to investigate how advertising that uses violent representations of women transgresses the taboo of gender-based violence. Design/methodology/approach This study encompasses a visual analysis of the subject positions of women in five violent advertising representations and a critical discourse analysis of the defensive statements provided by the client organisations subsequent to the public outrage generated by the campaigns. Findings The authors identify taboo transgression in the Tease, Piece of Meat and Conquered subject positions, wherein women are represented as suggestive, dehumanised and submissive. Client organisations seek to defend these taboo transgressions through the use of three discursive strategies – subverting interpretations, making authority claims and denying responsibility – which legitimise the control of the organisations but simultaneously work to obscure the power relations at play. Practical implications The representational authority that advertisers hold as cultural intermediaries in society highlights the need for greater consideration of the ethical responsibilities in producing controversial advertisements, especially those which undermine the status of women. Social implications Controversial advertising that transgresses the taboo of violence against women reinforces gender norms and promotes ambiguous and adverse understandings of women’s subjectivities by introducing pollution and disorder to gender politics. Originality/value This paper critically assesses the societal implications of controversial advertising practices, thus moving away from the extant focus on managerial implications. Through a conceptualisation of controversial advertising as transgressing taboo boundaries, the authors highlight how advertising plays an important role in shifting these boundaries whereby taboos come to be understood as generative and evolving. However, this carries moral implications which may have damaging societal effects.

Conflicts Within the Roman Catholic Church

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

This chapter situates the controversies about sex and gender in the Roman Catholic Church within the context of ongoing debates about the nature of the Church, the dynamism of the tradition, and the authority of the magisterium. It argues that underlying many of the most contentious of these disagreements, including those about reproductive rights, same-sex relationships, and gender-based violence, one can discern fundamentally different theological understandings about the nature of the human body, the relationships between the sexes, and the malleability of sexuality. Having examined these underlying theological controversies, this chapter considers the contours of the contemporary debates about reproductive rights and same-sex relationships. It notes moreover that these controversies are not abating. Rather, the positions are becoming more polarized and the divisions more intractable.

scholarly journals Rape is Rape: The Need to Criminalise Marital Rape in Tanzania

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Fatuma A Mgomba
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
The Other ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Significant Opportunity

It is obvious that marriage in a patriarchal community is the backbone of society on which the whole definition of society lies. The desire to get married and stay married often overrides the risks of gender-based violence a woman faces in the marriage institution. A married woman is instructed to stay married, be obedient to her husband and never say no to his sexual demands regardless of his behaviour. Generally, women are taught to tolerate and accept acts of domestic violence (including marital rape) perpetrated against them. On the other hand, a man’s conjugal rights included his right to have sexual intercourse with his wife when he pleased. The equal treatment of women and men under the law is vital to ensuring the recognition of women as full citizens and ensuring their freedom from violence. Therefore, the criminalisation of marital rape in Tanzania constitutes a significant opportunity to enact laws which effectively proscribe marital rape specifically and violence against women generally.

Navigating Norms: Charting Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Sexual Health Rights Through Global-Local Sport for Development and Peace Relations in Nicaragua

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst ◽  
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom ◽  
Emma Arksey
Keyword(s):  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Girl Power ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Local Ngo ◽  
Health Rights

International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) funding sport for development and peace (SDP) programs are drawn to the promise of such initiatives for young women in global South countries such as Nicaragua to promote their sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and prevent gender-based violence (GBV). While “international” feminist norms in support of “girl power” tend to be advocated by INGOs, gender norms in Nicaragua emphasize "machismo’ that tend to uphold male domination. Based on a case study of international-regional-local NGO relations as they “play out” in Nicaragua, this paper connects international relations studies that explore the conditions through which norm change “happens” with postcolonial feminist participatory action research (PFPAR). To conclude, we discuss how to better understand the tensions of "norms in conflict’ in SDP, with a particular focus on the pressures for local NGOs to accommodate—and connect—their contextual circumstances to the demands of transnational partners and the rising focus of Western donor organizations on “measurable” outcomes.

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