Fifty Shades Of Grey Domestic Violence

Intimate partner violence is characterized not only by physical violence, but also sexual, emotional, and mental violence through the use of threats (Understanding Intimate Partner Violence, 2011). In Black and Blue, Anna Quindlen delves into the mind of a woman who faces intimate partner violence in her everyday life. Fran, or Beth, and her son attempt to get away from Fran’s abusive cop husband. While Black and Blue is a fiction novel, its points about intimate partner violence hold true in many cases such as the breaking of traditional gender roles, high levels of stress, alcohol overconsumption, and learned behavior.

The article constructs domestic violence as an issue of gender, race and socioeconomic status. Women are identified as the “majority” of victims (Taylor 2014). Consequently, the article conceptually represents domestic violence as events of intimate terrorism where one partner violently terrorizes the other partner to gain complete control over the relationship, which is entirely perpetrated by men (Johnson 2012). With that said, Johnson (2012) points out that majority of domestic violence is situational couple violence, where both the man and the

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

Romanticized Domestic Violence, and all forms of Dating Violence are some very crucial, and critical commodities that unfortunately plague our societies today. According to Timmons, “…dating behaviors and dating violence are entrenched in the various media that surround our daily lives…” (Timmons, 1). Victims’ include countless Men, Women, and LGBTQ individuals, and can come/be seen in many forms. For example, according to Collins & Carmody (the authors of the Deadly Love article) romanticized domestic violence can come in the forms of Physical, Emotional, Sexual, Financial, and Psychological abuse. They also state reasons for this violence. Those reasons include (and as briefly stated), the varying content of different media types such as,

On average,in the United States, twenty people per minute are physically abused by their partner. Which if you make the math, that is more than ten million women and men. In the short story, “ It will look like a Sunset” by Kelly Sundberg, she effectively asserts her targeted audience which consists on couples and mainly young women in their late twenties who are in a relationship. Sundberg supports her assertions by appealing to ethical, emotional, and logical examples as well as using rhetorical strategies. The author's main purpose is to urge the readers to accept life is complicated and anyone who faces a similar situation should seek help because you may not be in the right state of mind to make the right decision.

This began to change in the 1980s, as women’s groups were organized locally and internationally to demand attention to the physical, psychological, and economic abuse of women (p.369-370). Domestic violence is a serious social issue that happens to many women in our world today. This type of abuse is not declining but continually rising on a daily basis. There have been issues in the past with the way these cases were being handled. Today, there has been some improvement concerning the laws that have been enforced in order to protect women from this type of abuse. There has been extensive research done on this issue in the past concerning domestic violence. Over the last ten years there have been a number of surveys on domestic violence that have been published from around the world.

Sexual abuse, specifically from a male, generates many negative consequences, especially to the victims involved. Male violence occurs all over the United States and has been steadily rising (Hooks 117). In Bell Hooks’ article, “Feminist Move to End Violence”, she discusses the reason why male violence is occurring. She explains, “While male supremacy encourages the use of abusive force to maintain male domination of women, it is the Western philosophical notion of hierarchical rule and coercive authority that is the root cause of violence against women, of adult violence against children, of all violence between those who dominate and those who are dominated” (Hooks 118). Due to the relevance of male violence today, feminist writers have been addressing this issue and its impact in their novels.

Picture a room full of whips, rope, floggers, a wooden St. Andrew's cross, riding crops, and handcuffs. To some, the thought of this room is disturbing and atrocious. To others, this could be their sanctuary and a pleasure palace. In light of a certain pop culture phenomenon, the once taboo and hidden bondage/discipline, domination/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM) lifestyles have been unearthed. E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey series brought the unique relationship between Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey into the homes of millions of average individuals. A once secret lifestyle was now written out upon countless pages, sitting on the best seller’s table for the world to pick up and read. The

225). The outcome of intimate partner sexual victimization demonstrated a 79.7% of participants having reported experiences of sexual violence from intimate partners within the past year (Moreau et al. 228). From the same study, 65.2% of the females have also reported the experience of minor intimate partner sexual violence, while 50% reported experiencing severe sexual violence (Moreau et al. 226). The data demonstrates that sexual violence among women is at large, as they are countlessly objected to subordination and dehumanization all throughout mainstream and pornographic media. From the calculations of the descriptive statistics, the study eventually specifically assesses the consumption of pornography and its association with forced sexual relations within the context of intimate partner sexual

•1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the United States have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner.

While not a somatic assault, emotional abuse can cause lasting effects on a woman’s health, so much so that researcher, B. Van Houdenhove and others working on the project have found “that emotional abuse and neglect may be contributing factors to the development and/or severity of illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia” (Karakurt and Silver). Finally, emotional abuse is a rampant issue, Karakurt and Silver report that “Psychological aggression by an intimate partner was reported by 48.4% of women,” which was found in the National Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence Survey (“Emotional Abuse in Intimate Relationships: The Role of Gender and Age”). Nearly half of the population of women report being victims to psychological abuse, making it a widespread epidemic faced by not only women in dystopian novels but also real life. Psychological abuse can take many verbal and non-verbal forms, which can put great strain on a woman’s health, and affects nearly half the population of the United States.

Historically, domestic violence on females has evolved drastically. It used to be a norm for women to be objects of their fathers or husbands and lacked civil rights. In many cultures, domestic violence was not preceded as a crime. According to Marcia Chaiken’s article “Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice,” she explains the history of violence against women and how it has evolved through the centuries. Chaiken states how women experience physical and sexual violence by their intimate partners which leave harmful effects on mental and physical health, and their ability to live healthy and productive lives. In the past, men had the right to use physical force against their wives and forcing sex was considered a private relational problem. Forcing sex was sought as romance back in the day, not rape. Religions generally discouraged the act of physical abuse within relationships, but women had to obey the men because they lived under his roof. A common perception of the past was that a man’s home was inviolate and authorities cannot interfere with relationships. Around the 1960s, women

The five forms of domestic violence are economic, emotional, physical, psychological and sexual. The most commonly known physical violence occurs when a partner or parent inflicts injury such as hitting, stabbing, and shoving. Physical violence also takes place when food or fluids, medical care and other sources that maintain health get withheld. The most commonly recognized form of sexual violence is rape, or non-consensual sexual intercourse. Sexual and physical violence oftentimes both wind up reported by the same victim. Some individuals actively engage in sexually abusive lifestyles, bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism, or “BDSM” is a wildly growing underground culture in America. It focuses on dehumanizing the submissive partner and empowering the dominant one. Certain pop culture books and films such as Fifty Shades of Grey have been giving this type of lifestyle a veil and treating it like a glamorous relationship to be

“Every year in the United States there are over 3 million incidents of domestic violence. That means that every nine seconds a women is beaten by her domestic partner” (Findeley). There are many women that stay silent when being abuse by their partners. The consequences of staying quiet when obtaining abuse can be dangerous and can also lead to death. Many women do not recognize the importance of the fact that there is in speaking out if they are being abuse by their partner. No woman should take domestic abuse by their partners. Every woman deserves a healthy relationship; A healthy relationship involves trust, respect, and consideration for the other person. Domestic abuse has gotten worse during the past years and is still rising up. One can see that domestic abuse can occur everywhere. Domestic abuse is considered a crime and woman should not keep silent when being abuse.

Domestic violence is an act of abusive behavior inflicted by someone in your household. The film No one would tell (1996) is about an abusive relationship that takes place outside of the home but was most likely influenced by domestic abuse. Stacy Collins, who is sixteen met and started dating a popular jockey named Bobby Tennison who went to her school. At first, everything seems perfect, but it ends up taking a turn for the worse. Bobby grew more and more abusive throughout the film and ended up murdering Stacy. The movie is based on a true story and teaches how hard it is to detect abuse, and how hard it can be to leave an abusive relationship.