Gender Base Violence In The Film 'Stoning Of Soraya'

From the time we are born, we are immediately introduced to influences that will shape and develop our character for the rest of our lives. Our character can be affected in a positive or a negative way by various influences that we encounter on a daily basis. We need to be aware of how much we absorb and let those influences change our behavior. External influences, such as video games, movies, and television shows impact our everyday lives, even when we are not conscious of them.

The feature film Australia directed by Baz Luhrmann gives the viewers a great insight into life in rural Northern Territory during the 1940s. He includes characters that both compliment and oppose the setting and the way he has captured the Australian farming style of living is impeccable. Racism and sexism are alive during this time period primarily to the Aboriginal people and to women. Cultural identity is a big part of this movie, especially with an Aboriginal child, Nulluh, and the personality change that lady Sarah Ashley experiences is a critical part of the plot.

Octavia Butler portrays a realistic side of violence in her novel, Parable of the Sower, violence is some time necessary if you want to live. When Lauren is forced with an obvious yet painful decision of killing her attacker that grabbed her on the road, she stabs the man but she also feels the pain of the knife being thrusted into her chest due to her hyper-empathy syndrome. Lauren had to kill the man because if she didn’t she would not just feel the pain she would have died instead. Violence is not pretty nor painless but when it comes down to Lauren’s life or another’s she eliminates the threat. Butler also demonstrates a proper side to war, Lauren never started a war but when she found herself in one she made sure to win. Throughout the entire book Lauren not once was looking for a fight, she was actually avoiding them, like when they were camped off

Iron Jawed Angels is a film that portrays the cruelty and brutality woman faced throughout the Suffrage movement in the 1900s and the Women faced many issues, but some accepted inequality while others waited patiently as asked to for years. Alice Paul and Lucy burns took a stand and stroke up determination within women.

The letter Abigail Adams wrote to her husband in the March of 1776 had one purpose. She encouraged her husband to “remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” Adams wanted her husband to include women in the formation of the United States. Unfortunately, women were scarcely mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, Article of Confederation, or Constitution. It was not until 1919 when women were given the right to vote, and there is still a pay gap between the genders. Throughout history, the oppression of women has been a common theme. Women have been seen as the weaker sex, restricted to domestic work, and treated as less than their worth. The limited rights of women in the 1950s and 1960s

In 1978, Bittaker and Norris met in prison at the California Men’s Colon at San Louis Obispo. To pass time, the two would trade stories of sexual fantasies they had, including the rape and torture of young teenage girls. According to Pulham, Bittaker and Norris felt comradery and comfort in each other when it was evident that both had similar rape and torture fantasies. Specifically, Norris stated to Bittaker that he always loved to overwhelm woman with fear and terror mainly because those were the emotions he constantly felt and experienced as a child. However, it was Bittaker who came up with the idea of having some “fun” when both were released from prison. Bittaker told Norris that they should rape, torture, and murder teenage girls, one from each age group (13,14,15…, etc.), but prolong the rape and torture for as long as possible before murdering them. They etched out a plan while in prison, promising that they would eventually put their words into action.

Today’s world is dominated by the great influence of advertising media, which often depicts the objectification of women. The film Killing Us Softly 3, discusses how influential the negative portrayal and misrepresentation of women is throughout advertising media. The Versace advertisement I have chosen to analyze displays a slim, scantily clothed woman of color guarded by a shirtless, muscular man. Based on concepts from the film and the course’s text, it is clear that this advertisement sets a particular feminine beauty standard and, nonetheless, illustrates women as solely being sexual objects of men, having little to no power. This fashion ad influences the way women view their physical appearance, along with their position and function in society.

In the novel, Burned Alive by Souad, the author and the main character, explores the mistreatment of women based on her experiences and what she has witnessed in her village. First, women are supposed to look down while walking or else she will be judged; as the author states, "She may never stray from her path or look up, for if a man were to catch her eye, the whole village would label her a charmuta" (1). A woman does not have the privilege to look up unless she wants to be labelled as a charmuta or a whore. Then, in their village, it was normal for men to beat women. The beating usually happened because it was in their law, as the author declares, "It was the law of men. The girls and the women were certainly beaten every day in the other

After viewing the film 13th directed by Ava DuVernay, my perspective towards the black community in the United States has been altered. I felt the film was appropriate with its incorporation of violent images, videos, and statistics, which later persuaded me that there is maltreatment towards blacks in the United States. The police/ guard brutality aspect of the film directed towards blacks was inhumane and was a shock to me as a viewer. This same feeling that I had regarding brutality in the film was similar to one of the course reading excerpt, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vasa written by Olaudah Equiano himself. As Equiano describes his particular conditions while aboard of the slave ship to the destination of the Caribbean island of Barbados, the treatment of these black slaves I felt was equivalent to the maltreatment in which the film had visually provided. Both in the film directed by Ava DuVernay and Olaudah Equiano’s excerpts from his document, each provide examples of brutality directed towards the black race. This

In the film Girlhood by Liz Garbus we are introduced to two young girl’s named Megan and Shanae, who committed a crime and are getting help through a facility that helps young girls reflect on their actions. Both Megan and Shanae share similar viewpoints for example, they mention that their role model is their mother. They also added that daughters need to be with their mothers. Both girls are following the development of gender roles which states that socialization leads girls to identify with traditional female roles where nurturing and caring are reinforced. Shanae got nurtured and follows everything her mom says because she wants to be just like her as she as growing up. Megan says her mom is her role model, but she doesn’t want to be like her because she wants to be someone in the future and not a drug addict.

Finally, Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media causes the gender power imbalance in the society through the use of Toulmin System of Logic. All of the components are suitably organized into the Toulmin System of Logic. The filmmaker uses this system as the model to recognize, analyze, and construct her logical argument smoothly. Moreover, based on the guide of the system, the audience can easily break down the argument of the film into different aspects. There is a list of dissimilar aspects in the documentary, such as claim, reason, evidence, warrant, backing, and qualifier. The first facet is claim, which states that the media has impacts on the women’s values. The second part is reason, which means

Rape is not just an issue in the military but; gender discrimination is one as well. This

Society’s view of women has changed as a result of what they have accomplish to become relevant inside a man oriented culture. Women are accused of being untrustworthy, due to their approach of going around the rules. Although this may be true, their limited possibilities push them to use their cleverness to look for alternatives that will help them reach their goals. The stories of The Arabian Nights demonstrate that when women are in control of a situation they must be trusted, as long as they act upon good will.

Throughout motion picture history, women have experienced more transition in their roles, as a result of changing societal norms, than any other class. At first, both society and the movie industry preached that women should be dependent on men and remain in the home, in order to guarantee stability in the community and the family. As time passed and attitudes changed, women were beginning to be depicted as strong willed, independent minded characters, who were eager to break away from convention. The genre of the crime film represents such a change in the roles handed to women. Two films that can be contrasted, in order to support this view, are: The Public Enemy by William Wellman (1931) and Bonnie

In society, women are often perceived as the weaker sex, both physically and mentally. In modern times women have leveled the playing field between men and women, and feminism is a highly discussed topic, but for years, women faced discrimination and prejudice both in life and in the workplace, due to their sex. This way of thinking flooded into the world of film. In their works, the authors of each of the various sources address the limitations and liberations of women both on and off the screen in nineteenth century Film and Cinema. Not every source is completely filled with information related to the research topic, but they do cover and analyze many of the same points from different perspectives. Prominent points addressed in each