I've come into my feminism the past several months, and spend a lot of time discussing and educating on violence against women and rape culture through my podcast ( Read more... )

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Self inflicted violence comes in many forms. It is easily recognized that cutting into one's skin is causing physical harm and can lead to death, but so too can unhealthy dieting, drug abuse and neglect in care. The psychic damage it can cause is the most dangerous. If one doesn't value their life, then they might neglect nutrition, or smoke, or ( Read more... )

Understanding Violence Against Women
edited by Nancy A. Crowell and Ann W. Burgess

Sourcebook on Violence Against Women
edited by Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffry L. Edleson, and Raquel Kennedy Bergen

Running from the Rescuers: New U.S. Crusades
Against Sex Trafficking and the Rhetoric of Abolition
Gretchen Soderlund

Defining Violence
edited by Hannah ( Read more... )

There is no simple solution to the complex problems of violence(s) against women. However, it is extremely important to work to figure them out and act on them to end it.

EQUALITY

The most overarching solution that should be pretty obvious, is what feminism strives for. Equality between women and men. Working for equality, thus, is working toward an ( Read more... )

“The definition of a problem determines the solution that are considered” (Defining Violence 1).

The Governor of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico said recently that international attention on the situation in Ciudad Juarez is damaging the city's public image. The purpose of Reyes Baeza's comments is unclear, but such statements in the past have had ( Read more... )

“The total figure of women who die unnecessarily-felled not by disease or accident, but by men’s purposeful policy-cannot be estimated. If this figure referred to a religious, ethnic, or racial group, we would be using the term “genocide.” What can we call this?” (French 118)

Femicide is the killing of females by males because they are female ( ( Read more... )

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This entry is a narrative from a woman affected by many kinds of violence, and how they are compounded. There are cycles of abuse, and many women fall into them. Childhood psychological, physical, and sexual abuse and violence can and does lead to more psychological damage and intrapersonal violence, which help may be absolutely necessary to end, ( Read more... )

Forced abortion, sterilization, population control policies such as China’s “one child” policy, and sex selective abortion are all denial of women’s reproductive freedom.

"Provisional estimates from the 2001 census of India, which showed unusually high sex ratios for young children, have sparked renewed concern about the growing use of sex- ( Read more... )