Christie-Miller's Report

Genocide has long had gendered effects, but those effects have long gone relatively understudied as with many other issues relating to feminism in academic scholarship. By gendering our understanding of power and violence, genocide must be rethought and even perhaps redefined, as the reality of genocide often finds itself in conflict with the genocidal realities women have faced throughout time. Through gendering our understanding of genocide in this analysis, the feminist viewpoint provides important acknowledgements for the effects of these human rights abuses on both men and women. Moreover, we will better understand how the

Picture this, a mother crying for her baby and yelling at her husband for killing her little girl, just because she was in love with someone else, other than the man her father chose for her to marry. Sad right? You here about his all over the news from all over the world. Family killing family because they have dishonored the family. It’s so stupid to see family going against each other just because their son likes men or daughters refusing arranged marriages and it always ends up killing their sons or their daughters because they have “dishonored the family name”. This murder is called honor killing, killing those who have dishonored the family.

The denial of the Armenian genocide and the use of the term “alleged” are insults to those who have agitated over the years in highlighting the genocide and the Armenian people themselves. The pictorial anger and anguish of this painful traumatic experience had left the survivors of this horrific event with deep scars beyond repairs. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a dark world for the Armenians who were held helpless and bound at the treacherous hand of the Muslim Turks of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. The Armenian Genocide includes: the context of power of the Ottoman Empire, the phases of destruction and Turkey’s refusal to acknowledge the genocide and provide support to the Armenians.

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

In our modern, 20th century society, we must deal with crimes by nation states. This involves governmental crimes, democratization, and transnational forms of policing. However, under this broad topic of crimes, it can be narrowed down to focus on particular topics. One I would like to focus on is genocide- the mass murder of a group of people that eliminates the social vitality of a group. And in delving deeper into this topic, I want to focus on the role and experience of gender, specifically women, in the case of genocide. In 20th century lives, genocide occurs often in times of war. The problem that is over looked is the consequences of genocide on women during times of war. The issue of gender, women’s rights, and violence against

There are times when a person believes that their honor is at stakes. Their honor and pride are something that must not be taken away, and if it does, then it must be taken back. They honor their honor in very serious ways, from keeping it to repaying it, some will even go to the ends of the earth to protect someone else's honor. In Turkey, there is a woman called, Nevin Yildirim, who, after killing a man, brought back her honor. Yildirim, was being raped at gunpoint multiple times throughout the days. She was told to be silent as not only did he threatened to harm her two children, but to reveal pictures that would ruin her and her families honor (Kayali, 2012). It is the womans job to keep the honor in the family or else you are nothing without it. After she found out he

Beginning with President Kemal, women began to have a much bigger voice on long standing issues in Turkey. “The new Civil Code, adopted in 1926, abolished polygamy and recognized the equal rights of women in divorce, custody, and inheritance” (Kandogen). Implementing the Civil Code ushered in a new era of the Turkish nation. No longer were women tied down in marriage due to the previous held laws that were reformed under President Kemal’s authority. Additionally, other strides were made to ensure the inclusion of women. “The entire educational system from the grade school to the university became coeducational. Ataturk greatly admired the support that the national liberation struggle received from women and praised their many contributions” (Kandogen). Education had mainly been given specifically to men during the Ottoman Empire in order to prepare them for battle, but Kemal’s efforts truly changed the male dominated nation. Although women’s rights continues to be an issue in Turkey to this day, the efforts made (beginning in 1926) established a more accepting and equal

According to Wendy Bracewell (2000), masculinity and the dominant role of men within both society and political settings, are the key features to the build-up of a nation. When masculinity is attacked through the act of rape, either through the rape of male soldiers or civilians themselves, the morale of a nation and the stigmas surrounding its being becomes highly unstable, making rapes strategic implementation by the enemy as a weapon highly efficient due to its ability to attack all categories of that particular group. In circumstances of conflict, where an enemy soldier would rape a male individual of the opposing group, it would emasculate the raped man within all aspects of his livelihood. When this would occur, the rapist however would be spared from any questions of his masculinity, or his sexuality (Quillinan, S. 2016). While in countries such as the former Yugoslavia, the rape of women during war represented the rape of a nation, the rape of men however represented the destruction of the building blocks of the nation, attacking it at its roots (Mostov, J. 1995. And Bracewell, W. 2000). At the same time, rape as a weapon of war destructs masculinity through its attack on nationalism, and the image that individuals have about and within their nation. As Serbs raped the Bosnian- Muslim women, Bosnian-Muslim men were left with no substance to

Living in the United States, the population as a whole tends to forget that not all cultures are as lenient and tolerable as their own. Many immigrants who now live inside the U.S. borders today try dearly to hold on to their customs. However admirable this may seem it can lead to grisly events. One issue that has arose due to immigrants’ desire to hold on to their beliefs is honor killing. Honor killings have had a major increase in the U.S. due to the immigration of many people from the Middle East and North Africa. So it has become the responsibility of the United States to work to end

To understand deeply on an intellectual level, the radical revolution which the Kurdish female fighters are undertaking in Kurdistan, states that the Rojava Revolution is essentially a woman’s revolution. As the YPJ combatant claims that, “to be born female is to be at risk for violent abuse, childhood marriage, honor killing, polygamy (Biehl, 2014).” However, today the Kurdish female fighters have reshaped the traditions not only in theory, but in practice. The Yekitiya Star women organization in Rojava ecliptically claims, “women are essential to democracy (Biehl, 2014)” which aims to free everyone. The Yekitiya Star organization states that these brave female fighters, once where women who could not read before the revolution, but these women “have gone to the academies that been set up and become educated and empowered (Biehl, 2014).” Many feminists see YPJ as “confronting traditional gender expectations in the region and redefining the role of women in the conflict (Cox, 2015).” An 18-year-old volunteer in the YPJ, Sara Zilan states “in the past, women had various roles in the society but all those were taken from them.

Our text uses an honor killing example to further oppose and question cultural relativism. Duran Halitogullari was a rape victim and as a result, her father felt that she, “ had dishonored their family by having been raped. He then exercised what he regarded as his rightful authority…..Such “honor killings” usually go unpunished. That’s because the cultures in which they are committed often regard them as justified. In such cultures, a family’s honor is often dependent on the “purity” of its women. ” (294) This honor killing represented a threat to their pride, dignity, and community standing and deemed unacceptable challenge to their position and thus Duran Halitogullari was killed. Shader-Landau then asks “If morality is in the eye of the beholder, then everyone is seeing things equally well.“

The Piers-Harris is designed to assess children ages seven through eighteen it consists of a 60-item self-report questionnaire which is designed to assess self-concept in children and adolescents. This assessment uses 6 domains to assess self-concept as well as a total score. The Piers-Harris is perhaps one of the easiest formats because of its easy yes or no responses and because of its reading level qualities which is designed for a second-grade reading level.

An “honor killing” is an epitomized murder committed against a woman for actual or perceived “immoral” behavior that is deemed to have breached the ‘honor code’ of a household or community. It is the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family name or societal standard. These so-called ‘’honor codes’’ are the product of condoning deep-seated patriarchal societal and ethnic injustices, where women are compelled to assume all responsibility for upholding the morality of an entire culture. It is the most extreme case of gender-based violence. Honor killings are the ultimate sanction against women who are deemed to have offended the collective morality of a group. Typical behaviors or suspicion of actions

The number of honor killings each year is unknown. Figures are only estimates at the very best. The Iraq government dismisses the numbers that are published and those outside the country have no way to identify how many honor killings take place, if they are even recorded somewhere. According the Human Rights Watch, honor crimes are “acts of violence, usually murder, committed by male family members against female family members who are perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family” (Stop Violence Against Women). Just sheer suspicion can be seen as a reason to commit an honor killing. This is because honor is a huge aspect of the culture in Iraq. Without it a family has little left. So if honor is needed to be restored then it must be

Honor becomes an obsession and “a biased scale both men and women use to judge all women.” The problem with honor killings has to do with “domination, power and hatred of women”. They are seen as servants to the family-physically and sexually.