Application Of Feminist And Family Violence

Feminism has not changed today, but its focus has changed. Many women today have good education and employment opportunities just like men, as the early feminist fought for them. Now, after getting all these, men are now discriminating them and at times abusing them in order to undermine their hard work and potentiality. Men are doing all they can to undermine the success women have been able to acquired, however, today’s feminism is struggling to protect women and girls from domestic violence, sexual harassment, and rape as well as discrimination.

Women abuse is a problem that plagues society in numerous ways. It is a problem that lacks proper definition in today’s society, and as a result has many misconceptions regarding the subject. It has been a problem that has been going on for centuries and has only recently been discussed as inappropriate and a disgusting act against women. The stereotypical family of a mother, father and children, loving, caring and happy with each other is always depicted on television. Real life relationships and families range from happy and loving to extreme dysfunctional in today’s society. Not every relationship and family experiences the “haven in the heartless world” (Momirov, 2011), many experience more heartless world within the family. This paper will focus on women abuse within the family. The purpose of this paper is to explore women that are victims of domestic abuse and the social structures that create the social problem women will face for the rest of their lives. This paper argues that neoliberal state policies create the social conditions that force abused women to stay in abusive relationships. This paper covers women abuse through three main parts. Part one of this essay will

“Domestic violence is a type of abuse by one or both partners in marriage, friends, family, dating or cohabitation” (Aziz & Mahmoud, 2010). There are many forms of abuse from verbal and emotional to physical that often escalates over time in intensity for the victim. Data from the criminal justice system, hospital patient medical records and mental health records, police reports, surveys and social services reports of thousands of women revealed that many are injured and killed as a result of violence from someone close to them. “The US Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) defines domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender” (Robertson & Murachver, 2009). Researchers and the criminal justice system have not been able to agree on a clear definition to domestic violence which can range from physical injury, stalking, verbal abuse and humiliation, denial of shelter and access to money, and intimidation through aggressive behaviors. The definition of domestic violence may vary but the results from physical injury, mental and emotional trauma, and sometimes even death can last a life time.

The intersectionality of women’s health issues such as domestic violence overlaps this problematic worldwide situation and connects vastly across cultures and continents, as domestic violence does not discriminate against women--people do. In the peer-reviewed academic design study article, “Intersectionality and Framing Domestic Violence”, Jennifer Nixon and Cathy Humphreys investigates intersectionality of feminist framing of domestic violence, and hypothesize a feminist theory specifically aimed at issues of violence against women. Nixon and Humphreys postulate that “deconstruction, not to cause harm on feminist activism has made ideological, material, and political gains for survivors of domestic violence” (Nixon and Humphreys 138). Additionally, they establish meaning that domestic violence is extensive, oppresses women, and is multi-cultural and the economic segments require revision. Subsequently, recommending that need to re-frame domestic violence should be a concentration on intersectionality, with its focus on the overlapping repetitions of gender, race, and ethnicity, class, disability, and sexuality. As the empirical results are constantly fluctuating, incorporating inclusions of updated results are vital, especially to include intersectionality which comprises the larger overlapping inclusion of the violence against women movement. In fact, Portwood and Finkel Heany’s (2007) peer-reviewed design study, “Responding to Violence Against Women: Social Science

Violence against women and girls is internationally prevalent. Regardless of class, age, or race, women everywhere are subject to physical, sexual, psychological, and economic aggression (United Nations, 2015; 1). According to the World Health organization, 1 in 3 women will experience physical and/or sexual violence by a partner a non-partner. Moreover, studies conducted by the World Health Organization suggest that exposure to violent behavior can have detrimental impacts that can affect the physical, mental, and emotional health of a woman or girl; some instances of extreme violence also lead to death. Due to the epidemic of gender-based homicides, the term ‘femicide’ became apparent. The term ‘femicide’ was coined by a woman named Carol Orlock, but was later defined in 2001 by an expert on violence against women and girls, Diana E. H. Russell. Femicide, as Diana defines it, is "the killing of females by males because they are female”. Presented by the World Health Organization, the main types and prevalence of femicide are intimate femicide, murders in the name of ‘honor’, dowry-related femicide, and non-intimate femicide (Garcia-Moreno, Guedes and Knerr, 2012; 1-2). Indeed, the forms of femicide existing vary among all cultures internationally, however, in this paper; I will primarily focus on non-intimate femicide in the region of Ciudad Juarez.

Domestic violence is an issue in almost every corner in the world. It is a public health and human rights issue. The accepted levels of violence have changed with history and varies between societies. Here in the United States, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on average nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused. 1 in 3 women have been victims of physical violence from an intimate partner. The presence of a gun increases the risk of homicide by 500%. On average 3 women are killed each day by an intimate partner, Intimate partner violence is 15% of all violent crime. An analysis done by Every Town for Gun Safety found that 54% of mass shootings were related to domestic or family violence. This paper will be looking at the problem of domestic violence in the United States through the sociological conflict feminist theory.

The first key question that the authors Alaggia, Regehr &Rishchynski, (2009) are to figure out that how come there is not addressed the domestic violence and continue to persist as a social problem affecting a large number of Canadian Women. The authors are trying to answer this question giving some statistics, how the women are abused from their partner, such as the violence reported when the relationship is ended, and is some other case the violence starts after the separation.

The Battered Women's movement of the 1970's enlightened society about a much secreted, and what at the time, was considered a family matter, that of violence against women by their male intimate partners. Many lives have been saved as a direct result of society's public awareness of this much-hidden scourge on our families. Federal and state laws prohibiting Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) have been enacted, and funding has been put in place for battered women's shelter programs. These changes have made a significant difference in the lives of battered women and children over the last few decades. The feminist theoretical perspective of IPVIPV has been depicted throughout our

One of the most significant health and social problems affecting every society in the world today, irrespective of age, race, ethnic, socio-economic, and religious groups, is Domestic Violence against women.

Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a global, social issue which refers to any violence occurring between intimate partners(same sex or other sex, married or unmarried) and against children. This behavior can take on a variety of different aspects, such as physical assault, sexual abuse, threats of either, or psychological abuse. This form of oppression occurs within a social context which makes violence against an oppressed group possible, or even acceptable (McCue, 2008; Lockhart, Danis, 2010;Dutton, 2006) . With regard to the reasons for domestic violence, Gelles(1987:40) states: “The last two decades of research on the various aspects of family violence are in agreement on one major point- there are a multitude of factors associated with

Patriarchal Theory explains the history, and they why gender equality exists throughout the ages, and I chose to mention Mary Wollstonecraft, who was the first woman to advocate on the education of women, in a time when women could not even own property. I feel as if it necessary to refer to and educate individuals on feminist patriarchal theory. I read that women outnumber men in higher education in the US, since women feel they need more than a BA to get the same amount of money men earn. The most commonly used theory on domestic violence is the feminist patriarchal approach. Gender relationships are measured as a fundamental piece of society and social norms.

There has been an increase interest in family violence but little research has been obtained on the subject. Some social studies have found that about one out of five deaths by murder in the U.S involved a family member. This social problem has been identified all across the world and not just in the U.S. Florida in 1978, the murder rate was 10.6 per 100,000 population. Of these murders 19.3 percent of them was the murder of one family member by another. Not only had that but 12.75 percent of all murders accounted for one spouse killing another. A study “Patterns of Criminal Homicide” looked at 588 homicides in Philadelphia to observe criminal family violence. Half of these murders involved one spouse killing another.

The definition of domestic violence is highly dependent on the setting that it is applied too. Let us go a step farther and add, the definition is contingent on the culture in which it is referred to. The US Department of Justice defines domestic violence as “abusive behavior in any relationship, it can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions designed to intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound. (U.S. Dept of Justice 2014)” Cultural norms researched for this paper, that would be considered violent and or domestic violence in the culture of the United States, would not be classified as violent behaviors in the cultures of Malawi and South Asia. Domestic violence, by perception and definition, although categorized differently by culture, doesn’t change the fact that the most vulnerable are at risk.

I also agree that women were mistreated badly and also most played stayed at home. I find it interesting how over the years how the events played out for women. According to our readings this week it states that "Betty Friedan, the first president of the National Organization for Women, demanded an end to discrimination and called for equality between the sexes" (Barnes & Bowles, 2014, pg. 389). I even wonder if this event helped women since we are still having issues with violence today. Domestic violence and abuse are still silent nightmares; the worse abuse is mental. Nonetheless, as you stated in your discussion women are critical to our society for reproducing. Your overall post was interesting and well organized.

Domestic violence is one of the worlds best kept secret, as an estimated fifteen percent of violent crimes are accounted by intimate partner violence (ncadv.org), yet it is rarely reported, or resulted in a conviction. This issue is prevalent in the United States, and it is a widely represented population, as there are many resources available to those that are victims of this crime. For this literature review, I was interested to see how this heinous crime is seen within Muslim culture, specifically in Iran. My initial interest sparked from hearing a friend of mine say that the women in her home country of Iran were treated as property, and that what the United States sees as being crime, is just typical behavior there. Another reason that this issue is not commonly talked about, aside from the fear of judgment and embarrassment, is the aversion that those within the Muslim culture are overly violent; a direct cause of the religion. It is then that I decided to commence my effort to dive into the world of research on my topic: Prevalence of Domestic Violence within Muslim Culture. My hypothesis was that mental illness of ones partner was the largest risk factor associated with the victimization of relational violence, and continued below is information derived from previous research.