Archivo etiqueta «Violencia sexual»
By Mary Lou Hartman, a documentary filmmaker (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/12/09):
I was just raped.
Not just, as in recently, though sometimes it feels like yesterday, but just as in only. I was only raped, not mutilated. I did not have a bottle or stick or gun shoved into my vagina, twisted to inflict maximum injury. Though damaged, I did not have my breasts lopped off, nor did I lose a limb. I was left intact, though far from whole.
I did not feel lucky 4 1/2 years ago, when I was raped, but I do feel lucky today as… Seguir leyendo
By Eve Ensler, a playwright and activist and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls (THE WASHINGTON POST, 30/06/09):
Just over a year ago, in answering whether sexual violence in conflict was an issue that the U.N. Security Council should take on, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice proclaimed, “I am proud that, today, we respond to that lingering question with a resounding ‘yes!’ ” With this statement, and with the cooperation of other power brokers at the table, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1820, which finally recognized sexual violence as a widely… Seguir leyendo
By Sarah Tofte, a researcher at Human Rights Watch (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/07/08):
Every two minutes, someone is raped in the United States. Every year, more than 200,000 rape victims, mostly women, report their rapes to police. Most consent to the creation of a rape kit, an invasive process for collecting physical evidence (including DNA material) of the assault that can take up to six hours. What most victims don’t know is that in thousands of cases, that evidence sits untested in police evidence lockers.
The backlog of untested evidence gained national attention in 2001 when Debbie Smith, a rape… Seguir leyendo
By Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia and the author of the novel The Opposite of Love and the forthcoming The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/05/08):
This Memorial Day, as an ever-increasing number of mentally and physically wounded soldiers return from Iraq, the Department of Veterans Affairs faces a pressing crisis: women traumatized not only by combat but also by sexual assault and harassment from their fellow service members. Sadly, the department is failing to fully deal with this problem.
Women make up some 15 percent of the… Seguir leyendo
By Anne Applebaum (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/12/07):
“A court in country X sentenced a black man who had been severely beaten by white men to six months in jail and 200 lashes.”
How would you react if you read that in a newspaper? Shock, horror, anger at the regime in country X, no doubt. And once you learned that punishing blacks for associating with whites is routine in country X, you might even get angrier. You might call for sanctions, you might insist that country X not participate in the Olympics. You might demand that country X be treated like… Seguir leyendo
Por Beatriz Preciado, profesora en la Universidad París VIII-Saint-Denis (LA VANGUARDIA, 11/11/07):
Cuando François D´Eaubonne inventó en 1969 el término falocracia para hablar de la dominación simbólica y política del falo en la cultura occidental, no hubiera podido imaginar que ese mismo falo era en realidad objeto de una intensa vigilancia y que se convertiría en el centro de una creciente normalización biopolítica. Entre mediados del siglo XX, cuando el psiquiatra Harry Benjamin descubre el efecto de las hormonas sexuales sobre la respuesta genital a la excitación, y los albores del XXI, cuando los laboratorios Pfizer, Bayer y Lilly se… Seguir leyendo