Gender Violence

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• A Brief History of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

  
  Levellers — Authority: 417
  Like the International Fellowship of Reconciliation ( IFOR ), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) began out of the horrors of the First World War.  It also grew from the first wave of international feminism.  As women in Europe and North America were struggling for the vote (suffrage) ...
  18 hours ago

• “The Killer in Me” Promo (NSFW! And Major Trigger Warning!)

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  Cate M. emailed us about the promo for the movie “The Killer in Me,” saying, The level of violence is at NSFW levels and quite possibly one of the most ‘trigger warning’ vids I’ve ever seen used to promote a non-horror film. We get a lot of submissions about sexualized violence toward women, so I ...
  2 days ago

• “The Killer in Me” Promo (NSFW! And Major Trigger Warning!)

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 709
  Cate M. emailed us about the promo for the movie “The Killer in Me,” saying, The level of violence is at NSFW levels and quite possibly one of the most ‘trigger warning’ vids I’ve ever seen used to promote a non-horror film. We get a lot of submissions about sexualized violence toward women, so I ...
  2 days ago

• Violence Against Women on Prime Time Up Since 2004

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  Parents Television Council just released their new data comparing the incidence of violence against women and girls by CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX during prime time sweeps in 2004 and 2009 (report here ).  They found a 120% increase in depictions of violence against women and girls amidst a steady rate of overall ...
  3 days ago

• 5 Reasons The Cleveland Serial Killer Case Flew Under The Radar [The Missing]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 825
  How does a sick fuck like Anthony Sowell , who lives next to a sausage factory, get away with murdering eleven (or more) women in just four years? The answer is an ugly examination into our societys structural failings. While the sausage factory provided a little cover for the horrible stench, the other reasons ...
  4 days ago

• Rihanna Interview Part 2 (Video)

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 540
  Rihanna talks about the violent assault by Chris Brown in this clip from Good Morning America. Tonight on 20/20, ABC will air the full interview. See Part 1. Feminist News Gender Politics Patriarchy Terrorism Violence Against Women Hate Crimes
  4 days ago

• Rihanna Talks: Eff Love (Video)

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 540
  Rihanna shares her experience, as a victim of domestic violence, with the world via an interview with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America . Be advised. This is just a preview, but its painful to watch. Anna N. at Jezebel writes: One of the saddest parts of the interview was the singers admission that she ...
  5 days ago

• Morgan Harrington’s Disappearance Sexualized by Nancy Grace

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  Victoria S. observed that, when 20-year-old Morgan Harrington went missing, the Nancy Grace show didn’ t do a story about missing Morgan Harrington, they did a story about the missing “co-ed beauty”: As Victoria said, if any of us go missing, let’s hope we’re lucky enough to be beautiful with ...
  5 days ago

• FotoPres 2009 at CaixaForum Barcelona

  
  NN Experiences - Nuez i Navarro Hotels Blog. — Authority: 122
  FotoPres 2009 The 135 photographs corresponding to the six projects awarded prizes and grants are now being shown at CaixaForum until February 2010 to prompt visitors to think deeply about living conditions in countries in conflict. The competition, which came about thanks to a determination to recognise the ...
  5 days ago

• Brutalized Women as Entertainment: A “CSI” Ad (Trigger Warning)

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  In 2005, Entertainment Weekly criticizing violence against women in crime procedural shows such as “CSI” and “Law & Order.” Descriptions of some of that fall’s episodes (I put in the Trigger Warning because these are pretty graphic descriptions of rapes and brutality): A woman thrashes in a cage, ...
  1 week ago

• Brutalized Women as Entertainment (Trigger Warning)

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 709
  In 2005, Entertainment Weekly published an article criticizing violence against women in crime procedural shows such as “CSI” and “Law & Order.” Descriptions of some of that fall’s episodes (I put in the Trigger Warning because these are pretty graphic descriptions of rapes and brutality): A woman ...
  1 week ago

• TV Violence Against Women Skyrockets in Family Values USA

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 540
  I used to be a fan of Family Guy, that was before I noticed that the show is one big misogyny festival. Move over Bill Maher! Speaking of broadcasting misogyny across the nation, a recent report finds that violence against women on U.S. television has skyrocketed in the past 5 years -- by 120 percent! And the ...
  1 week ago

• Door finally open to gender-based asylum claims?

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  After 14 years of limbo, Rodi Alvarado may receive a grant of asylum . As IntLawGrrl Amy Senier then posted , this summer the administration announced its intention to adopt regulations that have been pending since Matter of R-A- was first litigated in the mid-1990s. This week, in a one-paragraph brief issued from ...
  1 week ago

• Justice and rape in Liberia

  
  To Africa, from New York... — Authority: 396
  Glenna Gordon and I have a couple posts up on the Pulitzer Center blog focused on justice and rape in Liberia. The first gives some background on the difficulties of prosecution here and the second gives two different takes (hers and mine) on how to handle the confidentiality of victims. On confidentiality in ...
  1 week ago

• Violence Because of Gender, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Disability

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 540
  Yesterday I searched old and new media for some acknowledgement that the long-awaited historic Hate Crimes Prevention Act does include gender, or women . Other than the National Organization for Women and Violet Socks , I found no such acknowledgement. The surrealness is much like the futility of tuning into ...
  1 week ago

• Are Women Human? by Catharine MacKinnon

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 540
  In acknowledgement of the fact that women are actually included in the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, but our mostly male media and our President forgot to notice, Catharine MacKinnons ovarian Are Women Human? seems painfully appropriate. Read the essay -- or an excerpt: Fifty years ago the Universal ...
  1 week ago

• Rihanna’s New Single References Chris Brown Beating

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 709
  Rihanna’s first new single since getting beaten by boyfriend Chris Brown is titled “Russian Roulette.”  On the cover, she is wrapped in barbed wire with an eye patch that looks like a black eye: The lyrics include: And you can see my heart beating You can see it through my chest And I’m terrified ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rihanna’s New Single References Chris Brown Beating

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 160
  Rihanna’s first new single since getting beaten by boyfriend Chris Brown is titled “Russian Roulette.”  On the cover, she is wrapped in barbed wire with an eye patch that looks like a black eye: The lyrics include: And you can see my heart beating You can see it through my chest And I’m terrified ...
  2 weeks ago

• Push Comes to Shove: When Kids get Physical with Stepmom

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  While researching my book Stepmonster , I interviewed a number of women who described being on the receiving end of aggressive and even violent behavior from teenage and young adult stepchildren. They described shoves, pushes, and in more than one cases, slaps and punches, usually in the context of a "showdown" when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Polanski Polemics

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  So there I was listening to the morning news in Paris when I heard that Roman Polanski (right), the director of Rosemarys Baby , Chinatown and The Pianist , had been arrested in Switzerland in response to a 30-year-old international warrant issued by the United States seeking to bring Polanski to trial for ...
  2 weeks ago

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