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Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"violence against women"”.
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Reforming institutional responses to violence against women
… (Avni, 1991), within which batterers use violence, threats of violence, isolation, and other tactics of abuse to enforce compliance with their rules. Battering has well-documented physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences for women. It flourishes within the …
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Violence against Women in Kashmir: Personal and Political
… the subversion and silencing of interpersonal violence against women in Kashmir due to a larger focus on political violence, both within the community and in academia, as well. A detailed examination of various forms of violence(s) faced by women has been carried out throughout the thesis, some …
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Daughters of Eve : violence against women in Pakistan
… was to conduct extensive research on domestic violence against women in Pakistan and to present the results in a comprehensive document. Some of the issues investigated through fieldwork and covered here include the social and cultural reasons for violence against women, the ways in which the …
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Intimate violence against women : a report on the incidence and correlates of intimate violence against women - an Mdantsane, Eastern Cape sample
… into the public domain. In this context intimate violence by men of their women partners, so long shrouded in silence, is now being hailed as one of our most serious and prevalent social problems. But despite this awareness the circumstances which underpin this sort of violence remain …
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Causes of gender-based violence against women at Enseleni Community
This study is about causes of gender-based violence against women, with special reference to eNseleni community. As a descriptive research, questionnaires were used for data collection. Samples of 50 informants who are considered to be victims of gender-based violence were drawn. Literature that …
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Women's perspectives : the role of alcohol in violence against women
… of this research was to understand what role women thought alcohol played in their partners' violence to them, from the perspective of women who experienced violence from men partners.It aimed to: 1) question whether women blamed alcohol for their partners' violence, as anecdotal claims …
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Violence against women on the college campus: evaluating anti-violence programming.
Violence against women is a significant problem on America's college campuses. In response to this violence, many universities have developed direct service programs to assist the survivors of violence as well as educational programs to raise awareness about and/or reduce the likelihood of such …
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
This dissertation clarifies the manner in which violence against women is implicated in the re-constitution of gender in Chihuahua. Using data collected with a mixed methods, multi-staged protocol, this dissertation investigates how the routine threat of gender violence and the common presence of …
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Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
<p>What happens to women’s rights when a country transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democratic state? This thesis examines how Spain’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy impacted the advancements of women’s rights through a specific analysis of violence against women. While …
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Faith-based interventions in addressing violence against women in Cape Town
Violence against women is a social reality in South Africa. In 2014, the country was named the world rape capital by media and humanitarian organizations because of the intensity of violence. Several legal reforms have been put in place to address such violence, which include the Domestic Violence …
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Normalizing Violence Against Women: What Motivates People to Justify the Gender System?
… of practices meant to (1) differentiate men and women as two distinct categories and (2) organize and justify social inequalities based on these differences. People tend to react negatively if someone or something threatens an existing system. One way in which people justify a system is through …
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Family Feuds: The effect of income shocks on domestic violence against women
Este documento estudia la relación entre ingresos familiares y violencia doméstica en un país en desarrollo. Para ello, me enfoco en los municipios de Colombia con altos niveles de producción de café. Utilizando choques negativos en los precios del café como una fuente de variación exógena que …
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Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts: towards a transitional justice perspective
… while their men were forced to watch. Then the women were held as the men were shot and bayoneted. Rape was being used quite deliberately as a weapon of subjection. As the women were being raped so were the Highlands. These women weren’t mothers and sisters like their own. They were savages, …
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Sexual violence against women and the criminal justice system's response in Malawi
Sexual violence against women is an endemic problem globally. In Malawi, about 21% of women have experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives. However, there is limited literature investigating how the Criminal Justice System (CJS) responds to these cases. This thesis explores this …
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Intimate Partner Physical Violence Against Women in Saudi Arabian Primary Healthcare Clinics
<p>Intimate partner violence against women (IPPVAW) is a serious public health concern. The Ecological Model provides a model to study several factors associated with IPPVAW. In Saudi Arabia, studies addressing IPPVAW are limited and do not cover the various aspects of the problem. The purpose of …
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The Danger Of ‘no’: Rejection Violence, Toxic Masculinity And Violence Against Women
… between toxic masculinity and rejection violence, here defined as instances where men react violently toward women who reject their expressions of romantic or sexual interest. It begins with an analysis of the definition and construction of toxic masculinity and, through the analysis of …
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Preventing Violence Against Women: Emerging Practices of Canadian Activism through Social Media
The Canadian women’s movement has seen a recent surge in attention and participation. In a rising cycle of contention, broad collective action campaigns can appear as a single social movement. This research uses a comparative case study to examine three cases of varying scale through the causal …
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Violence against women in the novels of Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor
… focusses on the author's thematic use of violence against women as a means of illustrating her feminist messages to the women of her time. The violent content of her work has the purpose of warning women about the cruel misogyny of men."
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