Foreword by Germaine Greer

Greer, Germaine

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“…But the damage caused by this oppression also affects the well-being of the children, considering the tensions within the family. A woman who is a mother without desire remains castrated socially, sexually and culturally, living as a slave or as a domestic animal (GREER 1975).…”

Section: The Effects Of the Destructive Relationship On The Mental He...mentioning

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The impact of destructive parental relationships on children's mental health

Campos

2023

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This literature review seeks to understand destructive parental relationships, contextualizing these relationships, not forgetting the concepts necessary to understand the topic, such as the classification of different types of abuse. The effects of destructive relationships and intrafamily abuse on the children's mental health and, finally, the short and long-term psychological consequences for victims of intrafamily abuse and the negative impacts that may arise in the future relationships of these children, who are adults, were also investigated. as children who grow up in environments of destructive parental relationships are more likely to develop emotional disorders, compromising their mental health and judgment to interrupt the cycle of violence. For the work to reach its objective, it was necessary to use books, articles, monographs, dissertations, among others, configuring a bibliographic research, which allowed the understanding of how harmful the abuses of destructive parental relationships are in the mental health of individuals and the need awareness of the signs of intrafamily abuse and measures that can be taken so that it does not happen or is repeated in future generations.

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Section: The Effects Of the Destructive Relationship On The Mental He...mentioning

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The impact of destructive parental relationships on children's mental health

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2023

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“…Feminist critics such as Greer (1999), Gullette (1997), Steinem (1994), and Woodward (2002) have offered a different reading of anger in older age, remarking on “the possible galvanizing effects of anger for stimulating personal and social change” (Woodward 2002, 56). Furthermore, empirical research in organizations has shown how organizational practices contribute to constructing the older female worker as cranky and difficult, but—at the same time—how embodying this subjectivity may offer liberation from constraining sexist and ageist norms about “feeling” and “behaving” (Cutcher et al 2022; Irni 2009; Jack et al 2019).…”

Section: The Gendered Politics Of Emotions In the Trump Eramentioning

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The Politics of Female Anger in Older Age:The Good Fight, Older Femininity and Political Change

Fegitz

2022

Television & New Media

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This article identifies an important conversation about the politics of female anger in older age in the CBS show The Good Fight (2017–). By centring the narrative around the emotional life of a woman in her 60s, the show offers older femininity as a site for discussing social and political changes that have occurred in the USA in the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump. Through a close analysis of the four seasons that were released before the Covid-19 pandemic, this article maps the emotional journey of Diane Lockheart through her personal, economic, and political crises, showing how different emotions are connected with Diane’s engagement—and at times disengagement—with politics. Ultimately, the article contributes to the field of feminist cultural studies by exploring the way The Good Fight offers female anger in older age as key to feminist engagement and political change.

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“…The nature and frequency of commonplace rape have recently inspired Germaine Greer (2018: 28) to propose that the legal penalties for rape be vastly reduced, and that women’s word be taken as sufficient for conviction. While Greer’s too-flippant tone is misplaced in my view, her claim that ‘rape is not a rare and catastrophic event or an extraordinary act carried out by monsters; from the banal to the bestial rape is part of the tissue of everyday life’ (2018: 3) is certainly right when we consider commonplace rape.…”

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“…While Greer’s too-flippant tone is misplaced in my view, her claim that ‘rape is not a rare and catastrophic event or an extraordinary act carried out by monsters; from the banal to the bestial rape is part of the tissue of everyday life’ (2018: 3) is certainly right when we consider commonplace rape. She suggests that the psychological trauma from such ‘banal rape’ results more from the aftermath (especially the trauma of reporting) than from the rape itself (Greer, 2018: 57). Yet, and in seeming contradiction to this statement, Greer sites ‘a startling Swedish study’ which ‘shows just how normal it is for victims of sexual assault to experience a temporary paralysis that keeps them from fighting back or screaming’ (2018: 42).…”

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“…Yet, and in seeming contradiction to this statement, Greer sites ‘a startling Swedish study’ which ‘shows just how normal it is for victims of sexual assault to experience a temporary paralysis that keeps them from fighting back or screaming’ (2018: 42). In the study, ‘seventy per cent of the women said they experienced significant “tonic immobility,” or involuntary paralysis during the attack’ (Greer, 2018: 42). Greer does not attempt to explain how it is that such a supposedly ‘banal’ event would have such a dramatic physiological effect, essentially short-circuiting the victim’s subjective capacities.…”

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Rape and social death

Mann

2021

Feminist Theory

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Rape that does not involve life-threatening physical violence, is committed by someone known to the victim, and is not reported to law enforcement (called, here, commonplace rape) raises two questions: “Why didn't she fight back or run away?” and “Why didn't she say anything at the time?” Recently, research on “tonic immobility,” based on animal predation studies, has provided a physiological explanation for experiences of immobilization during sexual assault. The juxtaposition of animal predation with commonplace sexual assault raises the question: How is it that a response reserved, in animals, for lethal, no-way-out scenarios is present in modes of violation where the victim does not report fear of death or extreme physical harm? Neither does this research help explain why women fail to report. This philosophical exploration of the meaning of tonic immobility in sexual assault helps to justify the juxtaposition of life-or-death scenarios with less-than-life-threatening violation, and sheds light on the reason for women's silence after sexual assault. Rape is accompanied by deep historical meanings that can be encapsulated in the notion of “social death,” associated in the U.S. with colonial conquest, enslavement, and impoverishment. The specter of social death haunts commonplace rape, producing life or death responses.

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Foreword by Germaine Greer

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The impact of destructive parental relationships on children's mental health

The impact of destructive parental relationships on children's mental health

The Politics of Female Anger in Older Age:The Good Fight, Older Femininity and Political Change

Rape and social death

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