Sexuality, Violence against Women, and Human Rights: Women Make Demands and Ladies Get Protection

Miller, Alice

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“…Protection, as a number of feminist writers have pointed out is a hierarchical, often gendered concept, entailing a bargain of material and physical protection against loyalty, propriety, and subordination (Kandiyoti 1988;Kapur 2002;Young 2003;Miller 2004). Familial, national, and transnational bargains of protection in return for "propriety" should be placed in the same analytical frame; all entail demands for loyalty, dependence, and submission.…”

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“…Did they signal a new status for women in which violations of their bodily integrity were considered a public matter, and did this, in turn, suggest an extension of the domains of state power? Feminist literature offers plenty of warnings for those tempted to equate strong state action or public reactions on rape with gender justice, showing how sanctions against sexual violence can be integral to or appropriated by a host of other projects ( Miller 2004;Halley et al 2006;Bumiller 2008). Much of this literature has focused on so-called strong states, where legal interventions might be used as mechanisms of social control of marginalized groups or of women's private lives.…”

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“…A woman's sexual purity was to serve as a measure of her eligibility for protection, based on the familiar notion "that the most important thing to know about a woman is her chastity" (Miller 2004). Moreover, in Afghanistan the parameters of respectability were extremely constricted, as shown by the Supreme Court directive that rendered all women outside family or government supervision criminals.…”

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The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

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“…Dichos discursos niegan sistemáticamente la agencia de las mujeres (Butler, 2011). La naturalización del binomio mujer-víctima adquiere tintes siniestros en los medios de comunicación en tanto que ofrece una imagen reduccionista de las mujeres como seres necesitados de protección (paternalista) -en lugar de participación e igualdad (Miller, 2004;Butler y Athanasiou, 2013)-y puede excitar el instinto morboso voyeurista del espectador, específicamente, al asistir a escenas gráficas de violencia cometida contra las mujeres (Projansky, 2001;Zecchi, 2006). De esta forma, los medios pueden estar (consciente o inconscientemente) contribuyendo, a través de sus representaciones, a la existencia de la violencia contra las mujeres, al tiempo que unifican las experiencias de la violencia (Núñez-Puente y Fernández-Romero, 2015) impidiendo la comprensión de la heterogeneidad de las condiciones sociales en las que se experimenta la violencia.…”

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Celebrities, violencia de género y derechos de las mujeres: ¿hacia una transformación del marco de reconocimiento?

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Nicolau

García³

2016

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Abstracts[ES] Introducción. Ante los límites que presenta el actual marco de reconocimiento de la violencia de género, el presente trabajo analiza las posibilidades que abre la acción de celebrities en la transformación de este marco y en relación a la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres. Para ello proponemos el concepto de ethical witnessing. Metodología. Se propone un modelo de análisis a través de la operacionalización de dicho concepto para el estudio de prácticas representacionales que puedan desestabilizar los actuales parámetros de representación en aras de la resignificación del sujeto-víctima de la violencia. Las cuatro dimensiones de análisis son: el tipo de relación que se genera entre el sujeto-víctima y quien atestigua; el grado de transgresión de los modelos reificados de la identificación del sujeto-víctima; la focalización en la capacidad de agencia; y las conexiones que se establecen con las luchas por los derechos de las mujeres y con otras luchas. Este modelo se aplica a tres casos de estudio: las actuaciones musicales de Beyoncé, la entrevista periodística realizada a Carmen Maura y la campaña mediática de Emma Watson. Resultados. Se discuten las posibilidades de las prácticas discursivas que se incardinan en los principios del postfeminismo. Frente a la identidad de la mujer como víctima emerge la de la mujer exitosa que compatibiliza vindicación feminista y lucha contra la violencia de género con consumismo, materialismo y capitalismo. Esto permite desestabilizar la narrativa fijada sobre la violencia pero no llega a constituir una re-significación del marco en tanto que puede quedar co-optado por la ‗economía de -1123 | ISSN 1138-5820 | Año 2016 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/071/paper/1123/43es.html Página 834 las celebrities', ser absorbido por el feminismo liberal o estar desvinculado de la lucha colectiva, lo que dificulta la aprehensión del carácter compartido de la vulnerabilidad.Revista Latina de Comunicación Social # 071 -Páginas 833 a 852 Investigación | DOI: 10.4185/RLCS[EN] Introduction. Due to the limitations of the current framework of recognition of gender-based violence, this article analyses the possibilities of the actions performed by celebrities in the transformation of such framework and in the fight for women's rights. To this end, we propose the concept of -ethical witnessing‖. Methods. The study proposes an analytical model based on the operationalisation of this concept applied to the examination of the representational practices that may destabilise the current hegemonic configuration and re-signify the subject-victim relationship of violence. The four dimensions of analysis are: the relations generated between the subject-victim and the witness; the degree of transgression of the reified representational models of the subject-victim; the focus on agency; and the connection with women's fights for their rights and other social movements. This model is applied to three case studies: Beyoncé's musical performances; the interview with actress Carmen Maura, and Emma ...

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“…In other words, sexuality and reproduction have not been separated in its very origins: sexual intercourse. Notions of women's sexual desire and pleasure as dangerous (Vance 1989;Miller 2004) have not been completely dissolved by modern discourses of sexual pleasure and choice. Therefore, for most of the participants, to actively prevent pregnancy would reveal that they wanted to have sex only for the purpose of pleasure.…”

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Body and embodiment in the experience of abortion for Mexican women: the sexual body, the fertile body, and the body of abortion

Amuchástegui¹

2013

Gender, Sexuality &Amp; Feminism

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In April 2007, Mexico City's Legislative Assembly passed a law that decriminalized abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy, and established that the Ministry of Health was to provide the service. This has allowed Mexican women to seek a legal termination of pregnancy (LTP) without any legal procedure at all, therefore setting different coordinates for the experience. This article explores the above issues through the qualitative analysis of 24 interviews with women who had an LTP in Mexico City public clinics during 2008 and 2009. The way the body is discursively constructed during the process of voluntary abortion is discussed, by looking at how its materiality is present in women's narratives. Consequently, the relations established between the subject and her body in the context of pregnancy and its termination are also looked at. The analysis shows that three kinds of embodiment come through in women's narratives of their experience of abortion: the sexual body, the fertile body, and the body of abortion.

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Sexuality, Violence against Women, and Human Rights: Women Make Demands and Ladies Get Protection

Cited by 124 publications

References 14 publications

The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

Celebrities, violencia de género y derechos de las mujeres: ¿hacia una transformación del marco de reconocimiento?

Body and embodiment in the experience of abortion for Mexican women: the sexual body, the fertile body, and the body of abortion

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