Padayachee, AnshuSingh, Swaroop RaniPadayachee, A. & Singh, S. R. (1998). Violence against women: A long history for South African Indian women, with special reference to Hinduism and Hindu law. Social Science International, 14(1-2), 1-10....
The women’s movement in India is traced from the start of the 1970s, when the issue of gender began to gain traction and visibility as an issue separate from other concerns, worthy of being tackled in itself. However, the women’s movement in India is actually a far older phe...
The ancient Chinese called their technique ‘amma’ (push-pull), which was particularly concerned with the movement of Life Energy (Ki, Qi or Chee) in the body using the therapists hands rather then acupuncture needles. The Chinese studied the flows of Yin and Yang energies (masculine and fem...
To estimate the prevalence of sex trafficking as a mode of entry into sex work, and to examine associations between sex trafficking and recent violence experiences and HIV vulnerability among female sex workers (FSWs). In a cross-sectional study in 2006 in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, 812 FSW...
In a recent win for the country’s women, the Egyptian cabinet amended the current law to provide increased protection and ensure the confidentiality of the identities of sexual assault victims, encouraging more women to speak up and without fear of the consequences. ...
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However, women in Nigeria still play significant roles in the economy, especially in rural areas. Women are often expected to earn significant portions of the family income. As a rule, men have little obligation to provide for their wives or children. Therefore women have traditionally had to ...
CHAPTER 1 History and Definitions of Family Violence May 14, 2009, Daily Press (Victorville, CA): On Mother's Day, sheriff's deputies discovered a 94-year-old woman living in a wooden shed with no running water or cooling. The depu- ties arrested her 59-year-old son Ronald Rego and ...
number of Asian immigrants, and it deprived them of a place in American memory." Another reason the early violence against Asians isn't often discussed, she said, is that it was "effective. The violence was meant to push people out of communities, and in many communities, they succeeded."...
Reed, who often sang in explicit terms about violence against women, always insisted that his lyrics were rooted in fiction — but Sounes insists that after interviewing more than 140 sources on the legendary musician for his new biographyNotes From The Velvet Underground(including school f...