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It is a challenging pursuit for people to extract racism, sexism, and hetersexism among other systems of opression from their daily lives. The truth, is if you are a woman, queer person, or person of color, it is twice if not three times harder to eliminate these types of oppression. This is because these systems…

The past few years sexual violence trials have become publicized through news coverage and social media outlet. They have had a huge impact on society and involve celebrities like Taylor Swift and Alyssa Milano. The trial involving Taylor Swift was started based on a man of power sexually assaulting a vulnerable woman. The trial also…

The Mandrake also is known as the La Mandragola is a satirical play, written by Niccoli Machiavelli and published in the year 1524. The play is set in 1504 during the period of Florentine Republic, has five acts, and takes place in the span of one day. The mandrake, a popular plant during this time…

Violence is at crisis levels all over the world. A person is justified when violence using force against another person when that person is reasonably beliefs that the conduct is necessary to defend herself, which results in likely injury, or death to that person. Despite growing evidence of the size of the problem, the is…

When rap and hip-hop was first written, it was meant to be a type of self-expression that people could sing and relate to. These catchy, addicting songs changed from lyrics about challenges to focus on sex and words that offend and degrade women. On January 26, 2009, Jamie Foxx released his number one hit ‘Blame…

  National Organization for Women (NOW) and MADREThere are various women organization today worldwide that have their own objectives, strategies and philosophies with a vision of achieving certain stated objectives. This paper will discuss two Women (NOW) and MADRE both of which are women organizations that are on the forefront in fighting for human rights especially…

When people think of Egypt what usually comes to mind is their pyramids, pharaohs, and of course Cleopatra. Mostly people think and adore Egypt’s past. Though what will be brought to mind is Egyptians women status. Today their sociocultural still involve fighting wide gender gaps, sexual violence laws, and reducing the gender enrollment gap at…

Armed conflicts, in which violence is applied to civilians, have a diverse impact on particular social groups. One of the criteria determining differences in the way and scope of abuse is sex. Analysis of the different consequences of infringements in the case of women requires that the same violation has a different effect and leads…

Mara Viverto’s journal, Masculinties in the Continuum of Violence in Latin America (2016) touches ground on the notion of violence – specifically, how it seen as a symbolic and social structure governing the mechanism of gender subordination. Too many times have women been manipulated into submission and do as others command, or face death. To…

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book “We Should All Be Feminists”, she talks about her friend Louis, who she considered to be enlightened about many subjects. One time they were talking and Louis stated “‘I don’t see what you mean by things being different and harder for women. Maybe it was so in the past, but…