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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...