See Nadira Shalhoub-Kevorkian, "Towards a Cultural Definition of Rape: Dilemmas in Dealing with Rape Victims in Palestinian Society," Women's Studies International Forum 22, no. 2 (1999): 157-73; and Manar Hassan, "Murder of Women for `Family Honor' in Palestinian Society" (master's ...
Rape myths are “attitudes and beliefs that are generally false but widely and persistently held, and that serve to deny and justify male sexual aggression against women” (Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1994, p.134). In particular they serve to justify the cultural practice of sexual victimization of w...
Towards a cultural definition of rape: Dilemmas in dealing with rape victims in palestinian society - ScienceDirect It demonstrates the multidimensionality of the crime and the intricacy of social reactions to rape, the rape victim, and abuse of women, deriving from a... Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian...
Accordingly, the findings furnished evidence that the prototypical definition of rape has expanded, and that the sociocultural model of rape is useful in terms of explaining individuals' reluctance to define forced sexual intercourse between acquaintances as rape. Implications for future research, ...
‘Rape mythologising’ has been found to be a reason why survivors of rape feel blamed, and might contribute to low rates of reporting or conviction. No research to date examines whether ‘rape mythologising’ occurs in the conversations of sexual health
Finding a workable definition for obscene has sparked much controversy over the last century. It is not uncommon for pictorial magazines to depict nude women with their genitalia airbrushed over in black, and video pornography routinely depicts explicit sex scenes with the participants' genitalia ...
For the sake of this study, the definition of pornography was "media used or intended to be used to increase sexual arousal" (Carroll et al., 2008, p. 8). It can include media termed sexu-ally explicit, erotica, and that which is defined as online sexual activity. Research on ...
Lalubu: It’s odd because my definition of middle class is basically the same as yours, in that it’s the original, Marxist definition – one based on real economic assets, not cultural cachet or prestige. Those who reliably earn a wage that places them in the top third of the economic...
“Other”takes on multi-ple forms and methods that often do not directly lead to the death of thevictim.15Although the Genocide Convention (1948) does not include rape inits definition of genocide, it has been included in the definition of crimesagainst humanity in Article 7 of the Rome ...
Not, I think, because I want to preserve the freedom of goatish old men to prey on young women, but because it makes the definition of the crime depend on the victim's state of mind and not just the perpetrator's. This points to the pertinent difference between negligent homicide, and ...