In 1980’s the Forum Against Oppression of Women took action against the sexual harassment of nurses in public and private hospitals by doctors, patients and their male relatives, other staffs, teachers by colleagues principals, students by teachers, professors and other staff. But nothing stopped...
Treatment of prostitute victims of sexual assault. In Irving R. Stuart and Joanne G. Greer (Eds.), Victims of sexual aggression: Treatment of children, women and men. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhard, 1984, pp. 251–269. Google Scholar ...
Sexual Harassment at Workplace (SHW) has remained one of the central concerns of the women's movement in India since early eighties. (Patel, 2002) During the 1980s, militant actions by Forum Against Oppression of Women (Mumbai) against sexual harassment of nurses in the public and private ...
in the present work, we propose the Media-Induced Sexual Harassment framework, which addresses the link between media contents that sexually objectify women (sexually objectifying media) and sexual harassment of women. To
There is no capitalist-friendly way to end the oppression of women, particularly Black and brown women. Srinivasan points to a fact that’s well-known even among the most liberal of girl-boss feminists— that gender-based violence almost always correlates to poverty. But while the hegemonic cla...
Female sexual dysfunction affects 41% of reproductive-age women worldwide, making it a highly prevalent medical issue. Predictors of female sexual dysfunction are multifaceted and vary from country to country. A synthesis of potential risk factors and pr
One of Adams’ most pervasive theories compares the ongoing oppression of women and consumption of animals as influenced by their roles as “absent referents,” which divorces the consumable object (figuratively as the female body and literally as the animal body) from the individual. When I was...
The definition of sexual harassment has always been a key topic for feminists who seek to provide women with a political vocabulary with which to resist male oppression. Therefore, recent contributors to the sexual harassment debate have been concerned by women's apparent non-labelling of “sexual...
One of the things they have in common is that both the young men in question were ‘doing masculinity’ in such a way that both the young women were, minimally, humiliated. What I hope to demonstrate in this chapter is, first, that the humiliations and oppressions which young women ...
refugee; women; reproductive health; sexual violence; trauma-informed care; service-providers1. Introduction Gender-based violence shapes women’s experiences of forced migration [1], amplifying the critical need to address the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care of refugee women in resettlement...