Tag: rape
The Rape Index: Statistics Speak for Themselves
In the words of Harper’s Magazine editor Roger Hodge, the magazine’s monthly Index is “a statistical poem.” He presumeably meant that it allows the reader to experience it and come to his or her own conclusions. Today, instead of explaining a position, I offer a ‘statistical poem’ about rape. Each statistic is preceeded by the [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 under abortion, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, sexual assault.
Tags: abortion, born-again Christians, california, Catholic Church, college, emergency contraception, evangelical Christians, Florida, genocide, harper's, HIV, incest, marriage, medical professionals, New York, Pakistan, poetry, race, rape, Rudy Giuliani, rwanda, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, sexuality, social class, socioeconomic class, statistics, three strikes
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Congratulations, Professor Kristin Bumiller!
The formidable mind of my mentor Kristin Bumiller always deserves mention. Luckily, the American Political Science Association agrees with me. Bumiller’s excellent book, In An Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriate the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence, won the APSA’s 2009 Victoria Shuck Award for the best book published in the previous calendar year on women [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under book, policy, politics, power, power structure, sexual inequality, sexual violence, state.
Tags: abuse, award, book, book review, boundaries, central park jogger, criminalization, domestic assault, empirical analysis, exclusion, feminism, gender, government, identity politics, inequality, kristin bumiller, marginalization, neoliberalism, o.j. simpson, polarization, policy, political science, politics, postfeminist, power, race, rape, rape trial, rape trials, rights, scholarship, sexual violence, social control, state, strategy, surveillance, trauma, violence against women, women
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Lady Justice: "They've Never Been a 13-Year old Girl."
The case Redding vs. Safford Unified School District #1 was decided by the Supreme Court this week. The 8-to-1 decision was awarded to Savana Redding, who as 13-year old girl, was strip-searched by school officials when she was suspected of carrying prescription-strength ibuprofen to school, each of which would have had the strength of two [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Supreme Court, drugs, gender, human dignity, human rights, objectification, politics, student.
Tags: dangerous, delerious, fear, gender, hazing, justice, men, objectification, pills, rape, ruth bader ginsburg, savana redding, school, strip-search, Supreme Court, violation, women
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Onward, Feminist Soldiers: The Battle of . . . Do We Really Want a Battle?
Jessica Lynch “was born in Palestine, West Virginia,” according to the Wikipedia page about her. It continues, “her family could not afford to send her to college; her older brother had to drop out for financial reasons. Searching for a way to pay for the children’s educations, the Lynch family met with an army recruiter [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2008 under discrimination, female, female empowerment, female leader, feminine energy, femininity, feminism, fight, male worldview, maleness, males, man, masculine systems, masculinity, military, military casualties, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, obama, september, september 11, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, stereotype, stereotypes, terrorism, terrorist, violation, violence, war, war on terror, weapons, women, women in the military, women's liberation, women's movement, women's rights, work, working conditions.
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A Mile In Her Shoes: Men Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk
Hat tip to Bust for their coverage of this well-heeled event in their August/September issue: there’s a a new annual parage of feminist men who strut their stuff and walk the walk, literally. The “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” which bills itself as an “International Men’s March Against Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence” [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2008 under Self Objectification, Sex Roles, Uncategorized, feminine, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminists have more fun, gender role, gender roles, gender theory, gender violence, heels, males, objectification, objectification of men, objectification of women, objects, protest, rape, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual objectification, sexual violence, sexuality, sexy, shoes.
Tags: demonstration, femininity, feminism, feminist, gender violence, heels, international, male feminists, march, men, men's march, parade, pumps, rape, sexism, sexual assault, sexual violence, shoes, talk the talk, violence, violence against women, walk a mile in her shoes, walk the walk
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U.N. Rules that "Rape is a Weapon of War": Um, duh, now what?
As The Austrailian reports, “In his remarks, UN chief Ban Ki-moon stressed the world body was “profoundly committed to its zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation or abuse by our own personnel”.” “”Violence against women has reached unspeakable and pandemic proportions in some societies attempting to recover from conflict,” he said.” The BBC notes that China, [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2008 under United Nations, pedophilia, prostitution, rape, rape culture, rape victim, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual morality, sexual objectification, sexual violence, survivor, violence, violence against women, war.
Tags: abuse, Ban Ki-moon, congolese, goma student fund, mapendo, nations, peacekeepers, pedophilia, prostitute, rape, scholarship, security council, sexual exploitation, sexual violence, U.N., united, violence, violence against women, war, weapon
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Jane Doe Wants YOU to Join the Fight Against Rape Culture
In the past, women who experienced rape or sexual assault were faced with the immediate decision of whether or not to prosecute, even as they still reeled from the trauma of violation, which is often manifested as post-traumatic stress disorder. This was necessary because any action such a woman took following her rape, such as [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under agency, military, police report, popular culture, posttraumatic stress disorder, prosecution, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, sense of self, sexual abuse, sexual advance, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, sexual objectification, sexual violence.
Tags: administration, agency, Bush, culture, DNA, domestic violence, evidence, harassment, injustice, military, patriarchy, pentagon, posttraumatic stress disorder, prosecution, rape, rape culture, rape kit, sexual, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, survivor, trial, u.s., victim
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