What Is Physical Torture?

Chapter 1, Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide, discusses the history of and gives us an introduction to genocide. The author talks about the treatment of bodies, in particular Native bodies, and how colonial thought and theory regards Native people as inherently “rapable” and “violable,” a colonial conviction that stretches past the physical bodies of Natives, to Native independence and lands as well. She explains that patriarchy is the foundation by which power is established over Native women's bodies because hierarchal, patriarchal authority and control systems of society are seldom found within native societies. Europeans, on the other hand, have long depended on these methods to suppress and infuse fear into their people.

Women, unfortunately, have been very discriminated against, even in this century. Women are so cruelly thought of that now, women see nothing wrong with mental and physical cruelty towards them. Since the status of women in Africa, is so low, it has caused many men to overpower women…physically. More

She emphasizes that the life of a slave woman is incomparable to the life of a slave man, in the sense that a woman’s sufferings are not only physical but also extremely mental and emotional. Whether or not a slave woman is beaten, starved to death, or made to work in unbearable circumstances on the fields, she suffers from and endures horrible mental torments. Unlike slave men, these women have to deal with sexual harassment from white men, most often their slave owners, as well as the loss of their children in some cases. Men often dwell on their sufferings of bodily pain and physical endurance as slaves, where as women not only deal with that but also the mental and emotional aspect of it. Men claim that their manhood and masculinity are stripped from them, but women deal with their loss of dignity and morality. Females deal with the emotional agony as mothers who lose their children or have to watch them get beaten, as well as being sexually victimized by white men who may or may not be the father of their children. For these women, their experiences seem unimaginable and are just as difficult as any physical punishment, if not more so.

In chapter one, also known as ‘the hurting’, the author focuses on trauma that people have dealt with such as sexual abuse from a father or relative, failed relationships with parents, and difficulty with one’s self-expression. One of the poems in chapter one states that the girl’s first kiss was by the age of five and was carried out in an aggressive manner by the young boy, she assumes that he had picked that up from his father’s interactions with the mother. In the poem it says “He had the smell of starvation on his lips which he picked up from his father feasting on his mother at 4 a.m.” It is insinuated that the father uses forceful actions towards the mother during times that should be gentle and affectionate. In that specific poem she felt as if that was when she was taught that her body is only for giving to those who wanted out of satisfaction but she should feel ‘anything less than whole’. In another poem in chapter one, there is a family setting during dinner in which the father orders the mother to hush. This represents how women are constantly oppressed in their own

David Figueroa Eng. 101A Professor Stern 4/20/15 Final draft In conclusion, in discussions of torture, one controversial issue has been on the use of it. On one hand, the people against torture argue that it is cruel and unusual punishment. On the other hand, those for torture argue that it should be used for the greater good. Others even maintain that under extreme circumstances, it may be admissible if it can save American lives. My own view is that no one should be subjected to cruel punishment because it is not only illegal, unreliable, ineffective, time consuming, it also has too many flaws that could potentially ruin innocent lives. The definition of torture is any act, whether physical or emotional, or maybe both, is intentionally subjected to a specific individual or a group for many reasons. Most of these reasons that torture is administered is for extracting information from an individual or just for punishing him/her for a crime that he/she has committed or is suspected of committing. The use of torture can be used to intimidate a person to give information that may be beneficial for a nation. The use of torture has been used for many centuries. The purposes of using torture have changed over the years as well as the methods in which a person is tortured. One crucial piece that has been established that separates us human beings from barbarians is the prohibition of using torture. There are many reasons why torture has been deemed a crime now in society. There are

1). Ms. Greenlee is one of the most identifiable survivors of this type of tragedy. Greenlee told Ms. Martin (2013), “ she was forced to go through anywhere from 25 to 50 men a day or she would receive unimaginable punishments,” (para. 3). Greenlee told Martin (2013), “punishments were beyond severe, if she was not able to go through the number of customers they told her to she would pay with beatings, multiple rapes by multiple men, or even worse they would force her to watch as they tortured one of the other women they had kidnapped as her punishment,” (para. 6). Martin (2013) reports that, “Greenlee, who was kidnapped at age 12, was part of about eight girls who were kidnapped by a group of men who injected them with heroin and sometimes handcuffed them to the bed,” (para. 4). The tortures that Ms. Greenlee faced are unimaginable. She is one of the few women who have been able to escape from that world and talk about it openly.

The author, Margaret Atwood demonstrates the theme that in a violent isolated world, feminism is despised by the offended society, the inhuman treatment that women received may lead to physical and psychological perils; conversely, one’s firm belief could embody hope and reveal a precise future. Atwood uses irony to impart the theme. Significantly, the protagonist Offred feels she increasingly losing control of her body as “ an instrument, of pleasure” (Atwood 84). But the infinite emptiness inside her can never swap out the

Jacobs’ narrative is open and honest in its depiction of sexual harassment, describing the nature of the abuse and the tortured emotional state it leaves its victims in. Though the narrative tells of a girl’s life over one hundred and fifty years ago, it remains timely in its reminder that many suffering women do not have the ability to safely end the harassment they face every day, and yet, they continue to endure the consequential

They mutilate her in order to silence her after tearing her precious chastity away from her unwilling body. They cut her tongue from her mouth and cut off her hands as to remove any and all forms of possible communication, therefore extinguishing any possible outcry of revealing truth. “An environment that makes it shameful to speak of rape disallows a critique of rape and the culture that sustains it” (Detmer-Goebel 221). Women whose most private and sacred piece of their spiritual, emotional, and physical humanity has been forcibly robbed from them are likely to be silenced or shamed. Along with the dangers in speaking, there are also dangers in silence. Women have fought long and hard to have a voice in society, and for the most part they’ve gained that respected privilege, yet when it comes to the main things that affect women so deeply, they are shut down and shamed for the things that they had no personal control over. In this silence they are tormented and blamed. Speaking out against the abomination of rape is so feared and rejected. Due to this, silence is not only physical, it is also metaphorical. As Derek Cohen quotes Peter Stallybrass in The Rape of Lavinia, “Silence, the closed mouth, is made a sign of chastity. And silence and chastity are homologous to woman’s enclosure within the house.”(256) This is saying that the general reason rape victims are silenced, is to save

Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined takes place at Mama Nadi’s brothel in the Congo where a civil war is being waged and coltan is the new gold being mined from the earth. Mama Nadi reluctantly takes Sophie and Salima into her establishment to work alongside Josephine as entertainment for miners and soldiers. Before coming to Mama Nadi’s, Sophie, Josephine, Salima all experienced rape. The word rape is so common in our society that it has lost its intensity and heinousness to a person who has not experienced it. Rape is a general term to describe what the women experienced but it does not give any hint to the struggle that comes after the event. For example, what it does to a person’s mind, the lasting scars on someone’s body, and how it can change a person’s personality. Many critics assume that rape is the tragedy in the play, but Nottage’s use of the word “ruined” emphasizes that the real tragedy is the consequences of those soldier’s actions on these women 's lives and how it affected their interactions with society.

Brutalization includes the taking ceaselessly of singularity and goes the most unnoticed. As Infants copy what is on TV, rationally and physically they start to wind up not able to partitioned dream and reality. At the point when a tyke is presented to gore on TV, on computer games, and in tune verses savagery is grasped and to them soon turns out to be genuine. Established molding instructs kids to associate brutality with delight, passing identified with parody, and human misery with giggling. I see some kind of problem with this photo and think about how this all came to be. Operant molding plans youngsters in a way that despite the fact that they may be dreadful, regardless they do precisely what they have been adapted to do. In all reality

Since the beginning of the colonial process, Indigenous bodies have been seen as disposable. The dehumanization of the Indigenous body and the creation of the other, has allowed for the destruction of Indigenous Femininity. A system rooted in epistemic violence created by the colonial era. Continues to affect how Indigenous women are treated in modern societies. The demotion from “Indian Queen”, an exotic and powerful presence in colonial societies, to the “Dirty Squaw”, a figure depicted as lazy, and troublesome. Indigenous women have struggled to be seen as human people, rather than sexual object in the minds of the white settlers. A systematic dehumanization though through the process of epistemic violence. Which continues to affect how Indigenous women are treated today.

Anahita, was a fourteen-year-old young girl from Iraq. Her brother was killed by terrorist group, and she was left with her parents and a younger brother. Anahita’s family could not even afford to buy food, and loved in old, destroyed ownerless house. One day, Anahita was forced to marry a forty- six-year-old man named Naseefa by her parents. She denied to marry the him, but, she did not have a choice. Anahita’s family sold her to forty- six old man to marry him. Naseefa was already married to four wives while Anahita got married to him. She was abused by Naseefa, his wives, and his parents. Anahita was also raped by Naseefa sons. She did not have right to speak up about her rapists or she did not have anyone to asked for help. She ran away from her husband, but unfortunately, she was caught back by her husband’s servants. She was brought back to Naseefa, and he cut her nose and her fingers for punishments. Anahita was ashamed by her husband family and they called her airhead,slut, and the devilious during her punishment. Many of the bystanders were watching Anahita dying without any mercy. She was left with pain and in the blood pool without any medical treatment. Should Anahita be receiving these punishments for running away? Why can’t she speak up for herself and was it society 's fault? She did not have choices unless to kill herself. Women’s rights are not practiced in Society; yet, should adjust its view of femininity. Women’s rights are being violated by

The poem ‘Honour Killing’ details a woman’s struggle for freedom and reclamation of her own identity. The main focal point of this poem is finding one’s self and staying true who you are despite what your culture or societies tells you to do. Throughout the poem the poet highlights both religious and culture related issues associated with women in South Asia.

Once, Nujood was married to her abusive husband Faez Ali Themar, she was forced to move back to her old town Khardij. In Khardij, she would live with her sister-in-law and mother-in-law as well as her monster of a husband. “As of tomorrow, I’m going to teach the child to work like the rest of us”, announced my mother-in-law, without saying my name”, Nujood’s mother-in-law announced about Nujood. Faez Ali Themar’s mother was Nujood’s primary oppressor. I was surprised that this lady would allow her son to mentally and physically abuse and also rape a ten-year-old girl. Nujood’s mother-in-law has a very strong personality and treats Nujood extremely harshly. During, Nujood’s first night back in Khadij, she was raped by her husband. She screamed for one of the women living in the house to come and save her. No matter how much she screamed for help, no one came to save her. “Why didn’t she come earlier, when I needed her help? Now in any case, it’s too late-unless she was his accomplice in what he just did to me?”, thought Nujood (90). Nujood was forced to obey all of her mother-in-law’s orders. If she stopped for a moment, her mother-in-law would pull her hair. Nujood a ten-year-old was use to playing with children her age. Since Nujood was forced into marriage, she was not allowed to play with children her age anymore. “A married woman cannot allow herself to be seen with just anyone - that’s all we need, for you to go ruining our reputation”, the mother-in-law demanded to