“With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.” CommunityClearViolenceMessagesInternationalGenderAdoptionDeclarationViolence Against WomenEliminationInternational CommunityStop Violence Against Women Author:Jenny Shipley
“Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.” AgeViolenceEmotionalGenderCommandOld AgeTerritoryHormonesViolence Against WomenMidlife Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.” MenReasonNumbersViolenceGenderViolentEmpowered Author:Steven Pinker
“Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.” GivingMindHeartHas BeensTwoSexPowerfulViolenceFemalePhilosopherVicesGenderRevengeRageVanityExcitementAppropriateMost PowerfulWoundedSlightedFemale Mind Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.” KindCertainValuesOrderChoicesCasesViolenceSubjectsMovementExpressionProductsGayCapitalismGenderSexualityLifestyleTendenciesConventionsConventionalUniformsCommodityHostilityParadigmFetishDisapprovalCapitulationLifestyle ChoicesGender And Sexuality Author:Bruce LaBruce
“In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.” WorldGirlRolesGreaterViolenceRiskExpectationsAspectGenderAidsVulnerableExploitationHivGender RolesInfectionHiv Aids Author:Hillary Clinton
“Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.” WorldHumansEffortIssuesRightsViolenceCrimeDevelopmentDeserveAbuseThreatHuman RightsObstaclesGenderPersistSeriousnessViolationGender EqualitySystematicViolence Against WomenViolation Of Human Rights Author:Ban Ki-moon
“One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.” PeopleNeedsWantedFormOrderForceViolenceTroubleMetsConceptsBoxesGenderCardsCategoriesCaptureShelterAdministrativeMarkersBasic NeedsIllustrating Author:Dean Spade
“Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.” PeopleMenFacesViolenceRiskStreetsDangerParticularGenderEnormousShelterHomelessExposureTransHarassmentInaccessible Author:Dean Spade
“From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.” FacesViolenceSkillsGenderOppressionJoblessnessLack Of Education Author:Zainab Salbi
“We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.” PeopleMenNeedsWellsSchoolYoungClassViolenceGroupsOffersConstitutionCurrentsGenderAlternativesYoung ManIslamicImmigrantsRefugeeEnlighteningGender EqualityProactiveSharia Author:Alice Schwarzer
“Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.” YearsIdeasHardEnoughGirlJusticeViolenceIntegrityMental HealthGenderIntimate Author:Peggy Orenstein
“When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.” PeopleReasonHomeRolesViolenceConcernedSticksGenderReason WhyCommentaryGender RolesViolence Against WomenStay At Home Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.” PeopleTryingSometimesBodySeemsBornDealsViolenceFemaleMalesExtremesGenderMedicalEstablishmentTransgenderPsychiatristCritiqueContinuumBinaryIntersex Author:Judith Butler
“While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as well as the overwhelming burden of sexual violence is disproportionately borne by women.” MenWellsViolenceNegativeImpactMajorityBurdenGenderInequalityOverwhelmingStereotypeGender StereotypesGender Inequality Author:Laura Bates
“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.” MenNeedsKindStillsDesireSexSidesRolesIssuesViolenceConditionsHavensHonestyConversationHappeningsFemaleIndependenceMalesGenderTraditionalVulnerabilityAggressionGender RolesAurasSusceptibilityVacillationAggression And Violence Author:Laura Kipnis
“I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.” WorldMeanRealizingStruggleViolenceThreatGenderArguingHarassment Author:Judith Butler