Essays about: "male perpetrators"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words male perpetrators.

  1. 1. Gender-Based Violence in Resettlement Camps: the Internally Displaced People of Northern Mozambique

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Marta Pinhal Rocha; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender-Based Violence; Internally Displaced Girls and Women; Resettlement Camps; Mozambique; Cabo Delgado;

    Abstract : Gender-based violence has been widely used by various actors against the most vulnerable individuals in conflict-affected settings. Internally displaced girls and women are especially susceptible to suffer from this type of violence; nevertheless, they frequently choose not to report it. READ MORE

  3. 2. "30 million women rejected me" - a narrative analysis of perpetrators of gendered mass murders

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Tova Wedding; [2022]
    Keywords : mass murder; misogyny; narrative criminology; hegemonic masculinity; homosociality; male entitlement; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how perpetrators of misogynistic mass murder utilise narrative and storytelling to make meaning of their violent acts towards women. This thesis is hereby an attempt to understand gendered mass violence, and its narrative resources that precede and promote such actions, as part of a wider, misogynist culture centered on a denial of the existence of patriarchal societies and oppression of women. READ MORE

  4. 3. What Male Victims? : An Analysis of Male Sexual Violence and the United Nations’ work in the DR

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sandra Malmgren; [2021]
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    Abstract : The Democratic Republic of Congo has been tormented with a rape epidemic ever since the beginning of the war in the mid-1990s. Sexual violence is frequently used as a “weapon of war” to humiliate and dehumanize the victims as well as destroy communities. READ MORE

  5. 4. Mediating Justice in Sex Trafficking : A closer look to media representations and discourses about the sex trade in the context of the Epstein case

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Author : Maria de la Huerga Alonso; [2020]
    Keywords : Sex trafficking; sex trade; human rights; media justice; media responsibility; postwestphalian; representation; recognition; discourses; power; ideology; patriarchy.;

    Abstract : Sex trafficking, the fastest growing form of human trafficking, exacerbates among the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized women and girls. News media, as powerful social institutions, have the potential to shape opinions and attitudes towards critical issues (Sobel 2014). READ MORE

  6. 5. "I feel that I have no one to help me" : Women’s perceptions of causes of alcohol-related violence and what coping strategies these women use in the context of Livingstone, Zambia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH)

    Author : Evelina Flodkvist; [2019]
    Keywords : Gender-based violence; Intimate partner violence; Alcohol abuse; Coping strategies; Zambia;

    Abstract : Background: Intimate partner violence is a major human rights problem, that affects all sexes of all ages in all societies. Men are the primary perpetrators, and women are more likely to get injured since the violence against women also tends to be more severe. READ MORE