The female body at risk: media, sexual violence and the gendering of public environments

2013 ◽  
pp. 187-199
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Female Body

Philomela’s Marks

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Wells
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Poetic Representation ◽  
Rape Of Lucrece

This essay explores the significance of the mutual imbrication of ekphrasis and sexual violence in Shakespeare’s poetry. Beginning with a discussion of Philomela’s substitution of a woven picture (the teasingly opaque ‘purpureas notas’) for an oral account of violence in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, I analyse Shakespeare’s revision of this foundational story in Titus Andronicus. Arguing that in Shakespeare’s work ekphrasis functions as a gendered site of contestation between image and word in which the feminine image is organized and contained by the masculine ‘noting’ of an artist figure, I consider how Shakespeare’s other extensive use of the Philomela story in Cymbeline clarifies this pattern. My final texts, The Rape of Lucrece and The Winter’s Tale, allow me to unpack more fully the function of ekphasis in drawing attention to the predication of poetic representation on the abjection of the female body.

Chicana Teens, Zines, and Poetry Scenes: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Amanda Ellis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Young Adult Novel ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Fitting In

This chapter reads closely Isabel Quintero’s 2014 young adult novel Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. Quintero’s novel, which takes the form of a year’s worth of diary entries, and includes an illustrated copy of the titular character’s zine on female body diversity, narrates the story of a young Chicana outsider’s senior year of high school. In lieu of “fitting in” Gabi the teenage poet pens her way out of loss, homophobia, lurking sexual violence, grief, and depression. Gabi, A Girl in Pieces reveals that the creation of political art, the practice of writing, and the role of Chicana poetics can serve as vital creative outlets for Chicana outsiders, be they nerds, goths, geeks, or freaks.

Assaulting Sophia, Protecting Sophia: the Female Body as a Symbolic Artifact in Gnostic Mythology

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-171
Author(s):  
Cindy Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
And Function

Abstract This article explores the construction and function of the female body in four Gnostic texts: Pistis Sophia, On the Origin of the World, Hypostasis of the Archons, and Apocryphon of John. In these texts’ accounts of the mythological origin of the cosmos, the exposed bodies of Sophia and her daughters are consistently depicted as objects of excessive, often gratuitous sexual violence. Yet in the midst of this violence appears another, equally consistent motif: the Gnostic writers protected their female characters through a variety of narratival techniques, such as transforming the female body into a tree or a strenuous insistence on the violence’s ultimate failure. This article accounts for this curious pairing of violence and protection by evaluating the female body as a symbolic artifact embedded with the values of the patriarchal culture which constructed it, a culture which valued the female body as a reliable, untainted conduit of progeny.

Sexual Violence Against Women Living With or at Risk for HIV Infection

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 304-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Zierler ◽  
Bridgit Witbeck ◽  
Kenneth Mayer
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women

scholarly journals Physical and Sexual Violence During Pregnancy and After Delivery: A Prospective Multistate Study of Women With or at Risk for HIV Infection

2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (6) ◽  
pp. 1052-1059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda J. Koenig ◽  
Daniel J. Whitaker ◽  
Rachel A. Royce ◽  
Tracey E. Wilson ◽  
Kathleen Ethier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence During Pregnancy

Feminine gender norms and syndemic harmful drinking, sexual violence, and sexually transmitted infections among Black women at risk for HIV

2021 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 108566
Author(s):  
Erica Chan ◽  
Christina J. Catabay ◽  
Jacquelyn C. Campbell ◽  
Abby E. Rudolph ◽  
Jamila K. Stockman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Harmful Drinking ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Sexually Transmitted

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.

scholarly journals A systematic review of training interventions addressing sexual violence against marginalized at-risk groups of women

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Kouta ◽  
C. Pithara ◽  
A. Zobnina ◽  
Z. Apostolidou ◽  
J. Christodoulou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Training Interventions

scholarly journals Addressing the knowledge gap: sexual violence and harassment in the UK Armed Forces

2017 ◽  
Vol 164 (5) ◽  
pp. 362-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren R Godier ◽  
M Fossey
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Military

Despite media interest in alleged sexual violence and harassment in the UK military, there remains a paucity of UK-based peer-reviewed research in this area. Ministry of Defence and service-specific reports support the suggestion that UK service personnel may be at risk of experiencing sexual harassment. These reports however highlight a reluctance by service personnel to report sexual harassment through official channels. In this article, we discuss the paucity of UK-based research pertaining to the prevalence and impact of sexual harassment in the military, explore potential reasons for this gap in knowledge and outline future directions and priorities for academic research.

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