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Culture of Patriarchy in Law: Violence from Antiquity to Modernity
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Culture of Patriarchy in Law: Violence from Antiquity to Modernity Orit Kamir, Every Breath You Take: Stalking Narratives and the Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 245 pages. $55.
Stalking is a social behavior of repeatedly watching and imposing surveillance on the victim (usually a woman) in ways that intimidate her autonomy. On April 3, 2001, a jury in Miami, Florida, had found a 46-year-old man guilty of stalking the tennis superstar Martina Hingis. He sent her flo...
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International Women's Day, 1991: coalitions never more important. (Cover Story)
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Women and violence.(Editorial)
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; On the Women's Monument Project in Vancouver, British Columbia - 14 benches of pink granite each with the name of one of the 14 women slain at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique on December 1989 - the following is inscribed: We, their sisters and brothers, remember, and work for a better world. In
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SHARING THE BURDEN OF ABUSE MEN TAKE STEPS AGAINST MALE VIOLENCE
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; Probably every man knows men who have sexually assaulted women. According to the FBI, at least 3 million women are battered by their husbands or lovers every year, and one of every three women in the US will be raped. And yet according to the Organization of Men Against Sexism, no more than 80 men
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A habit of violence grown ordinary (1): constraints on Muslim women's participation in war.
Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military
; On 2 August 1990, Iraq invaded its neighbor Kuwait. For the next seven months, until Kuwait was liberated by an American-led coalition in February 1991, the Kuwaiti population was subjected to a brutal and terrifying occupation. Many Kuwaitis were killed or imprisoned; homes, schools and hospitals
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off our backs
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