Catharine Mackinnon

In certain communities in South Asia, the low status of girls has to be compensated for by the payment of a dowry by the parents of the girl to the husband at the time of marriage. This has resulted in a number of dowry crimes, including mental and physical torture, starvation, rape, and even the burning alive of women by their husbands and/or in-laws in cases where dowry payments are not met.

Violence against women during times of war is something that is very rarely discussed, especially the violence that was directed towards Vietnamese women during the Vietnam War. Even now there is discourse surrounding these Vietnamese women, or “comfort women” as they are called. Today there is very little officially known about what took place, and what happened to these women. The women were stolen from their homes, violated, assaulted, and blamed as victims. Their children were discriminated against, seen as lower class citizens, and forgotten about by their fathers. These women and children were not only discriminated against at the time of these events, but they are also being discriminated against now.

In the article entitled “The Longest War” from her 2014 book “Men Explain Things to Me”, Rebecca Solnit speaks about the issues surrounding the subject of male violence. She vehemently writes about how the plethora of male violence is being directed solely at women. She explains that a multitude of innocent women around the world are being abused by men. The amount of male violence taking place around the world is staggering; so much of it is happening everywhere. Solnit states the male gender is responsible for the deluge of violence, and that women in all parts of the world emotionally and physically suffer from it.

Writer and activist, Rebecca Solnit, addresses the issues of gender inequalities and violence against women in her essay “The Longest War.” Solnit’s purpose is to shed a light onto the inequitable and often detrimental treatment of women, and to emphasize the need for change. She utilizes a compelling, matter-of-fact tone to optimize the effect her words will have on her readers, both male and female. “The Longest War” by Rebecca Solnit employs the rhetorical strategies of substance and context to highlight gender issues worldwide, and to inspire people to act in favor of equality.

“Women aren’t the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity” (Kristof & WuDunn, 2009, p. xviii). This quote does an excellent job of introducing the issues discussed in the book Half the Sky. In this book, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn present us with the issue of the unjust and cruel treatment of women in today’s world. Women throughout the world are treated in unthinkably bad ways, but the majority of people are not even aware of the suffering these women face on a daily basis. According to Kristof and WuDunn (2009), “Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined” (p. 61). However, Kristof and WuDunn (2009) also point out that if something dramatic such as a school shooting or bombing takes place, it makes breaking news, and everyone is aware of it all at once (p. xiv). Plenty of women are being mistreated every minute of

Gender discrimination and violence against women were not part of the Human Rights Agenda until the 1990s when feminists began to push for this change (p84/book). One of the slogans of their campaign was that “Women’s Rights

For my rhetorical analysis, I read Rebecca Solnit’s essay “The Longest War,” which shed a light on the unequal treatment of men and women and the violence that women face throughout their lives, and around the world.

The future of genocidal intervention must allow us to move beyond a definition affixed to body counts, and particularly when we don’t gender those victims. By gendering the way violence impacts both men and women, we can both detect genocidal acts earlier as well as paying attention to the act of rape as genocidal in and of itself. While those who committed these acts certainly are evil, to understand the gendered logic (if it can be called such) of violence is conducted provides us better perspective in identifying it within conflicts, and understand which populations are at risk and in what ways.

MacKinnon believes that pornography is violence because all women are forced. On the other hand McElroy says that we should all accept whatever women choose to do with their body. As proven there is no link between pornography and violence, and all the evidences that were presented were unreliable as McElroy says in her article. McElroy agrees that every industry has it’s own abuse. If a woman is displayed without

Owens’s claims over the topic of women in combat happen to be that he is against the idea of placing “American women in combat or in support positions associated with direct ground combat” in the military. He states that there physical differences between the sexes, men tend to treat women differently, and that the presence of women lead to double standards. Therefore, with this reasoning that Owens claims allows the readers to have a better understanding of his perspective on women in

The article by Meetoo and Miraz define extreme forms of domestic violence, which often lead to the death of a woman at the hands of her loved ones or community. Interestingly, "honour" only arises as a motivation for murder when religion or ethnic communities are involved. In the article, the author asserts that ethicized women (women of colour and other minorities) who are victims of honour killings are unrecognized in both multicultural discussion and domestic violence discussion. Since 9/11, these women have become much more visible, but unfortunately this increased recognition is due to a heightened sense of fear and danger associated with the idea of a "Muslim alien 'other'". By employing an approach focused more on human rights, people

Women, Violence, And Resistance In chapter 54 Women, Violence, And Resistance by Melanie Kaye/ Kantrowitz. You will read about how women are abused. Should women be treated with violence such as being raped, beaten, physically and emotional abused? No women small or big should be abused, so when being attacked I believe if the women feels as if she can defend herself she should fight back.

The number of woman suicide bombers has increased since the official first case of 2002, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Whether the purpose of the fights is for independence, recognition, or religious ideology, woman are now being seen as having a critical part in the act of war and they are actively being recruited and trained. As shocking as it may seem, they are prepared to use the utmost violence to achieve their aims.

It also represents a careful deliberation, effort, and commitment to this life-long engagement he is getting himself and his bride into. It is a cultural way of ensuring that the women is not to be brought down by marrying a man who makes her suffer in poverty. This is not universally entirely an anti-feminist value, it can even be good for women in practice at the end of the day for its intention is to guarantee married women of a safety net for her new family’s economic status and well being. In a society that makes a law that bans dowry system because of the reason that such an act propagates the objectification of women and therefore curtails women’s rights, it will also be a law that goes against the cultural values of the communities that uphold the belief systems such as that in Thailand. In this case, the intrinsic value, judged by the intent and the consequence that it brings, dowry system does not have an intrinsic value that goes against the progression of women’s right, and therefore, in Okin’s view, this area of culture could be tolerated under the realm of multiculturalism.

Today I read “U.N. Condemns Sex Abuse by Peacekeepers in Africa” by Mary Bowerman and Oren Dorell. This article was published on January 13th, 2016 on USA Today. This article was about how U.N. peacekeepers are going to the Central African Republic and having sex with underage girls. Bowerman and Dorell go on to talk about how the sexual violence by peacekeepers is a violation of human rights and must be investigated. I chose to read and analyze this article because the title intrigued me. The words sex abuse and peacekeepers should mean completely opposite things. Sex abuse is a terrible crime and peacekeepers are supposed to be people that work to preserve the peace. This article shows that there are problems in Africa regarding the people