... genital mutilation/cutting/excision, gender-based violence by police and military forces in armed conflict as well as everyday life, violence against refugee women and asylum seekers, trafficking in sex workers, sexual harassment, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, forced sterilization, female foeticide and infanticide, early and forced marriage, honor killings, and widowhood violations (see Cook 1994a: 20 ... rights are not only newcomers to the human rights field but also rather uneasily adapted to its core categories. For example, Jack Donnelly, a prominent human rights legal scholar...

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... disrobing before entering a bathtub four times, a woman taking off her bra, another her pants, and a final scene of a woman refusing to have sex with a man but giving in. Here we are presented a blatantly scopophilic view of the objectified female form in cinema. This montage simultaneously represents Sergio's ... . However the next film, El Mariachi, made twenty-five years later by Robert Rodriguez, delivers the most stereotypical view of females as instrumental objects of the male phallocentric interest. The highly conventional narrative portrays a single male hegemon6 again, el Mariac...

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... . Though out times people were always comparing themselves to others and history of the country, civilization played a big role in shaping societies' image of pleasant and attractive. In India first objects to represent feminine were terracotta figures. The physical features in these figures were representing ideal features in feminism. These figures had big hips, breasts and supple legs and were believed ... 's revenge" is predicated upon a popular mode of double seduction: the selling of male bodies to both heterosexual women and gay men. To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduri...

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... the interest of those who control them, men. The media endorses sexism making men appear superior and women inferior. "Sexism is the subordination of one sex, usually female, based on the assumed superiority of [another] sex" (Kendall, 2004, p. 76). This oppression is usually shown as marginalizing and objectifying women so men can retain social power, privilege, and opportunity. When looking ... , many of which perpetuate unrealistic, stereotypical, and limiting perceptions of women. Men are typically portrayed as strong, smart, powerful and sexually aggressive. Women on the other hand ...

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... example, many believe that "it is not sexual abuse unless intercourse is involved"(Crawford-Clark). But, that is not true. Sexual abuse, although it includes a constant demand of sex, can also include criticizing the victim in sexual terms, calling the victim names such as "whore" and "frigid", forcing the victim to witness sexual acts with ... other people, and using threats to back up demands for sex. Physical abuse can escalate from painful pinches or squeezing to strikes that can cause permanent disabilities to the victim. As the violence increases, the abuser targets parts of the b...

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... other will be forgotten. The mistreatment of women by their men occurs throughout the play. The main characters view their wives or significant others as inferiors and usually merely as objects of lust and physical desire. This misogynistic view is reflected in some form or other by all of the main characters. Iago is the most misogynistic of the men. He ... a woman that she thought he would want more – the pure, virginal model. When they were wed, she became less of a person and more of an object to engage in sex with and procreate. "Motherhood is dangerous because it affirms a situa...

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... of knowledge; clearly seen in literature, politics, plays, and even art. Women can be seen in paintings, where they are positioned so only their profile is exposed and various personal objects are scattered about the background. These items usually include jewelry, pictures, or maybe if their lucky, a book. Women in these types of paintings were depicted as the mother and wife ... her resolve. Her final speech, impressive and illuminating eloquence and strength, so deviates from the soft spoken, unheard Renaissance woman that, (utilizing the conventional, and superior, image of the male...

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