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Computational model based on shannon entropy to analyze violence against women: A case study in Peru
(International Research Publication House, 2018)
Violence against women is a social problem that not only affects women involved, but also their relatives and their environment. In Peru, it is a topic that is becoming increasingly more visible. In this work, a computational ...
An Ongoing Journey in the Pursuit of Agency: The Hindu Women’s Organisation of Trinidad andTobago
(2013-07-25)
Where women are honoured, There the Gods are pleased: But where they are not honoured, No sacred rite yields rewards ”So declares the Manu Smriti(111.56) —a text on social conduct. In reviewing the attempts of the Hindu ...
Violence Against Women: Contributions from Latin America
(2020-07)
Beginning in the 1980s, Latin American feminist movements identified violence against women as one the main social problems in the region, resulting from a system of gender oppression intertwined with economic and political ...
Deconstructing “The Equalizer” Beyond A Balance of Terror: The Equaliser
(2013-07-11)
During the Calypso season of 1998 a well-known calypsonian, Singing Sandra, presented her major offering for the year at Kaiso House; it was the calypso The Equaliser, which like her 1999 smash hit Voices from the Ghetto, ...
Giving up reporting the aggressor: reports of female victims of domestic violence
(Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 2008-12-01)
The goal of this study is to describe the experience of female victims of domestic violence, who forfeited the lawsuits against their aggressors. The interviews were oriented by the question: What was your experience of ...
Giving up reporting the aggressor: Reports of female victims of domestic violence
(2008-01-01)
The goal of this study is to describe the experience of female victims of domestic violence, who forfeited the lawsuits against their aggressors. The interviews were oriented by the question: What was your experience of ...
MISOGYNY IN THE TRAIT: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AS THE THEMATIC PRETEXT IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
(Univ Federal Paraiba, 2018-07-01)
This article discusses the use of violence against women as a thematic pretext used as an visual argument in the production of editorial cartoons. We understand that editorial cartoons consist of a mode of graphic humor, ...
Violence With Femicide Risk: Its Effects on Women and Their Children
(Sage JournalsUS, 2021)
The objective of this study is to assess the effects that a specific type of severe violence—violence with femicide risk (VFR)—has on women’s physical and mental health, as well as the physical health of their children. I ...