Dangerous Women Research Articles

‘So they hit each other’: gendered constructions of domestic abuse in the YouTube commentary of the Depp v Heard trial

ABSTRACT This study presents a critical discourse analysis of YouTube comments below five videos of the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard trial, which was live streamed by the platform in April and May 2022. The analysis examines the discursive resources used by commenters to construct domestic abuse. Commenters draw on three interpretive repertoires: ‘Perfect Victim’, ‘Mutual Abuse’ and ‘Dangerous Women’. The analysis explores the way these repertoires are used to rebut Heard’s allegations of abuse by mobilising the perfect victim repertoire to refute any claim she has to this experience, and the mutual abuse repertoire to implicate Heard in the abuse and minimise blame for Depp. Through establishing gender-symmetry in domestic abuse and drawing on traditional gender norms for each party, commenters construct the dangerous women repertoire to depict Heard as crazy, pathological and violent. The key implication of this study is that public constructions of domestic abuse can directly impact the attitudes and treatment of both victims and perpetrators. In this instance, they serve to maintain the oppression and control of women within anti-feminist narratives of female dominance, currently led by men’s rights activists and conservative outlets.

Ultrasound scans as risk rituals in obstetric prenatal care in South Africa

In this article I examine collective maternity risk understandings and practices from the dual-perspective of obstetricians and pregnant persons, focusing in particular on the role of ultrasound scans. Contributing to socio-cultural theories on collective risks, I draw upon data from a two and a half year, multisite ethnography that traced fourteen women and seven obstetricians’ corresponding experiences of private-sector childbirth in Cape Town. My findings show that ultrasounds, as habitual practices, are well-established as safe, yet generate medico-legal risks for obstetricians and delivery risks for pregnant women, while managing risks to the unborn. The unborn, culturally sanctioned as precious, emerges as central to the purposes of the ultrasound risk ritual that warrants both self-protective precaution and collective duty on behalf of both social groups. Directed by the same injunctions but for markedly different ends, this dual-perspective suggests an important addition to the risk rituals literature, while adding further important insights into the literature on ultrasounds. By examining the ultrasound scan as risk ritual with a dual-function, the unborn as the object of the risk ritual is both at-risk and poses risks to the groups taking part. Legal processes, risk aversion, and technocratic obstetric care delineate the unborn as a risk that 1) places obstetricians in danger of litigation for negligence 2) places women in danger of delivery by c-section within high-risk birthing cultures, and 3) reconfigures birthing intervention as normal and necessary.

Intimate Partner Femicide–Suicide in Eswatini: Offenders, Victims, Incident Characteristics and Sociocultural Contexts

Abstract The current article reports the results of a systematic study of 42 intimate partner femicide–suicides with 91 fatal casualties in Eswatini, Africa, from 2009 to 2022. The study used a media-surveillance methodology to identify the 42 cases from a major local online newspaper. Information on all identified cases was subjected to careful criminological analyses. Six of the cases involved seven collateral, or corollary, homicide victims. Results indicate that assailants and victims were generally of lower socio-economic background; assailants tended to be older than their victims; stabbing with a knife, shooting with a gun and slashing with a machete were the dominant homicide methods; ingestion of weevil tablets and other poisons, hanging and shooting with a firearm were the predominant suicide means. The results further show that femicide incidents overwhelmingly involved overkill, with the assailant using inordinately high levels of aggression against the victim. Male sexual jealousy, rage over the female partner’s abrogation of the relationship, and interpersonal disputes of variable origin were the major precipitants. It is recommended that deterrent sentences should be used to teach wife assaulters and would-be assaulters that society does not tolerate assaultive behaviour within intimate relationships. More resources should be provided for women who are victims of domestic violence. This should include legal aid, financial resources and refuges for women in danger and their children. Measures should be taken to control the proliferation of firearms in society.

Agents of Socialization, Anxiety, College Women, and Fear of Rape.

This paper examines the impact of messages about sexual danger women receive from parents, peers, media, school officials, and past victimization on fear of stranger and acquaintance rape. Analyzing survey data for 630 undergraduate women, we find that parental warnings, internalized mean world view, university crime alerts, and being more prone to anxiety are significant predictors of fear of rape across models, while effects of media and victimization are limited. When high and low proneness to anxiety subgroups are considered separately, numerous differences emerge. Results suggest the need to include formal measures of anxiety in future fear of crime research.

Transformation of the mythopoetic image of the "city woman" in the novel "Burn" by V. P. Aksenov

This article is devoted to the analysis of the postmodern novel "The Burn" by V. P. Aksenov, a representative of the Russian underground of the twentieth century. The purpose of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the transformation of the mythopoetic image of the "woman-city". A city in the meaning of "fenced place" was necessary for a person to protect himself from danger. Over time, it began to be filled with symbolic meanings, to turn into an archetype — an urban text appears. For V. P. Aksenov, the crossroads where art, history, destinies, friendship, love, creativity converge is Moscow, so it becomes the center of action of many of his works. However, the writer, departing from the tradition of N. M. Karamzin, N. V. Gogol, A. S. Pushkin and L. N. Tolstoy, creates an image of infernal space. The scientific novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the author analyzes in detail the central image of the practically unexplored novel by V. P. Aksenov, identifies the structure-forming motives for creating the image of the city and the mythopoetic basis, including individual images, situations, characteristics. As a result, the article proves that the mythopoetic image of the "city woman" in the novel "Burn" consists of a sophiological concept (archetype), allegory (fox), metaphor (the whore of Babylon), mythem (Isis, siren, Judas), color painting (eschatological myth of espyrosis) and mythologems (woman-city). In V. P. Aksenov's novel, Moscow is an infernal space, personified by a seductive and dangerous woman — Alice Fokusova.

The Fall of Masculinity: Helena as a Transgressive and Dangerous Woman in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well

This paper focuses on the healing scene and bed - trick in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, to prove Helena transgresses and overturns male - centered society. Critics have often understood Helena as an ideal female agent who physically and symbolically heals the endangered masculine world through her curing the king. However, going against this reading, this paper argues that Shakespeare does not simply portray Helena as a passive and obedient woman in male - oriented society. Instead, Helena seeks after her own desires and insistently subverts this male - centered society through her virginity. This subversion eventually leads to a flipping of gender roles when Helena makes Bertram a victim of her marriage plan. Thus, unlike previous readings of Helena, she should be understood as a subversive and transgressive character.

Poor, sinful and dangerous women: illegal prostitution in the Mezzogiorno before and after Unification

AbstractIn the nineteenth century, when Italy was undergoing significant institutional and socio-economic changes, the bourgeoisie affirmed its principles of ‘respectability’. In this context, the spread of prostitution among the poorest and most disadvantaged classes of the South became a real obsession for bourgeois society. Through the study of primary sources relating to various health institutions, this paper aims to assess the role of the Opere Pie in the control and management of prostitution. It furthermore highlights the hybrid function of the re-education, assistance and segregation of those women who represented a danger to bourgeois morality and order. Finally, it sheds light on the living conditions and social environment of young prostitutes.

IOT based Women Security System using Raspberry Pi

The term “Smart Bracelet” mainly refers to the wearable devices that monitor and record a person’s Security. Tracking physical activity and proves constructive to the women in danger and helps them to fight such odds . However, little information exists about the comparability of wearable trackers women’s location . This device is a real-time, portable, Scrabble system that consists of a button that triggers the Raspberry-Pi, which sends the alert message, and our device check pulse rate and pulse rate is high then victims current location with a recorded image of the crime and also produces a high frequency alarm to draw the attention of others. Although this device has been designed primarily for women security, it can also benefit other members of the society including elderly people, a girl child or anyone who faces an unsafe situation.

Theorising human trafficking through slow violence

Human trafficking is predominantly framed as a criminal justice issue with sensationalised, highly visible violence. Stereotypical figures of young women in danger, passively poised to be rescued by figures of the state or vigilante justice, animate public discourse and policy. Yet the reality of trafficking is often far more complex than the linear narratives presented in the mainstream. In this article, I argue that human trafficking is more readily accessible as slow violence, the accumulation and accretion of the consequences of systematic oppression over time. I use Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor to articulate a stance against the flash of trafficking's ‘master narratives’. Slow violence offers three key elements for theorising human trafficking, i.e. that the harms are so gradual or delayed they: become imperceptible; compound over protracted durations of time; and may be so mundane and unspectacular to not even register as ‘violence’ in our vernacular. Aligned with a critical trafficking studies approach that draws attention to power dynamics and imbalances, slow violence focuses on the forms of exploitation and precarity that are taken for granted or assumed to be static. I use a collection of artifacts and examples from dominant anti-trafficking organisations and media to demonstrate the urgency required to both rethink trafficking against these flattening overgeneralisations and recommit to a transformative practice that makes more lives liveable. In the tradition of feminist anti-violence scholarship, I conclude by shifting from the micro-level examples of trafficking that fuel misinformation campaigns to the systems that perpetuate violence, exploitation and extraction – and must be eradicated if we are committed to ending human trafficking locally and globally.

Mary Watson’s Vanishing Acts: From The Sign of Four to Sherlock

Abstract The character of Mary Watson first appears in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four (1890). Scholars have read Mary as a personification of late nineteenth-century British imperial and societal anxieties. Mary is identified both with the dangerous colonial Other and New Woman and, conversely, with the “pure” and safe British domestic order that uneasily triumphs over these threatening forces. Though the critical discourse on Conan Doyle’s work acknowledges the ambivalence surrounding Mary, many critics ignore her eventual childless death in the original Holmes canon. Considering Karen Beckman’s study of the Victorian “vanishing woman” magic act, Mary’s death can be interpreted as this sort of “vanishing”—one that further resists the uneasy containment of the threats so often read in Conan Doyle’s novel. In the television series Sherlock (2010–17) created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Mary Watson performs Beckman’s vanishing act in full, reappearing after her onscreen death. Though Sherlock’s Mary is seemingly divorced from her original Victorian context, a closer reading of her trajectory in the series suggests that the model of the “vanishing woman” is very much the same—with the historical points of context merely substituted. Sherlock’s treatment of Mary’s character in the twenty-first century, then, seems surprisingly even more inhibitive and violent than that of Mary’s character in its nineteenth century source material.

Dancing Toward Freedom

Dancing Toward Freedom

Cytogenetic findings of ectopic endometriotic tissue in women with endometriosis and review of the literature

ObjectiveTo determine chromosome and gene alterations in ectopic endometrial (EM) tissue which may be implicated in the clinical course or the progression of endometriosis and to review the literature concerning the cytogenetic findings of women with endometriosis. Study design15 women who underwent laparoscopic endometriosis surgery at the Athens Genesis Clinic were enrolled in the study. Ectopic endometrial tissue was surgically removed and further analyzed by conventional and molecular cytogenetic techniques. Fluoresent in situ hibridization (FISH) with probes for p53, ATM, MYC, MLL1 and IGH genes, the centromeres of chromosomes 7 and 8 and 7q22/7q31 chromosomal regions was carried out. ResultsKaryotypic analysis revealed no clonal chromosomal abnormalities. However, an increased frequency of polyploidy (55.6%) and sporadic chromosomal abnormalities (40.0%) concerning chromosomes 9, 11, 17 and X were noticed involving mainly deletions, trisomies or monosomies. FISH analysis showed IGH gene rearrangements in 54% of the EM cases and MLL gene rearrangements in 73% of the examined samples. Normal hybridization patterns were observed for p53, ATM and MYC. The increased frequency of polyploidy shown by conventional karyotyping was also confirmed by FISH. ConclusionPolyploidy, sporadic chromosomal abnormalities, as well as IGH and MLL gene rearrangements, may provoke genetic instability and play a potential role in the development of endometriosis. IGH and MLL gene rearrangements indicate a genetic relation between endometriosis and carcinogenesis. Confirmation of the above gene rearrangements in a large series of women may allow the determination of their possible involvement in the pathogenesis of this complex disease and their possible contribution in the early identification of women in danger for malignant transformation.

A Journal on Cervical Cancer Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks

Artificial neural networks (ANN) assume a significant part in numerous clinical imaging applications. Cervical cancer ranks the 4th dangerous women cancers in less developed countries due to insufficient trained staffs and medical procedures. The location of cervical malignancy cells utilizes ANN for characterizing the typical and unusual cells in the cervix wall of the uterus. Cervical malignancy location is exceptionally difficult on the grounds that this disease happens with no manifestations. The order between the typical,unusual and malignant cells produces exact outcomes than other manual screening techniques.The ANN utilizes a few models for a simple and precise identification of cervical cells. The main aim of artificial neural networks is to supply right information at a right time. Hence we implement artificial neural techniques with collected data Analysis,to improve the life of an individual and to decrease the death rate of the society respectively. 

THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMAN AS FEMME FATALE IN ROALD DAHL'S LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER

The purpose of this study is to know the representation of woman as femme fatale in Lamb to the Slaughter. The research methods of this study is a qualitative research method. The primary source of data is the Lamb to the Slaughter short story, and the secondary source of the data is the main character Mary Malony. The result of this study shows that Mary became as a femme fatale is actually triggered by the conflict that occur between her and her husband. Knowing the fact that her beloved husband asks for a divorce when she is pregnant is not the right time. Mary, who is originally an innocent and normal wife, suddenly turns into a dangerous woman.

Dangerous Women or Women in Danger? Women and Properties of Extinct Households in Late Imperial China

Over its evolution, imperial China’s legal tradition has produced as series of laws and regulations on the issue of vacant successions, which were supplemented by a host of local practices or “customs”. This body of legal and customary rules had a profound impact on the rights of women to ownership, in a context in which there existed a profound cultural bias in favor of men. Even though social status and the role played in the family circle did account for some differentiation, fundamentally, it was all but impossible for women to be treated on an equal footing with men, especially with regard to assets’ inheritance. In fact, in the eyes of male family members, widows, daughters and daughters-in-law were often considered as threats to the integrity of a household’s properties. As numerous Qing dynasty judicial cases show, these “dangerous women” –especially widows– were regularly confronted to all sorts of pressures from the families to which they belonged, which could end up jeopardizing their material and physical well-being. Confronted with this category of “endangered women”, in time state authorities devised legal tools and highly symbolic gestures in order to provide some form of protection for them.

Women in Danger of Femicide: Predicting Population at Risk of Femicide from Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in Turkey

The highest threat for intimate partner femicide (IPF) is previous history of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study estimates magnitude of women with an increased IPF risk in Turkey based on prevalence data of different forms of violence among specific high-risk groups from the Research on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey (2014) and 2014 population size. Correspondingly, around 2 million 15-59-aged-women are currently exposed to IPV. Some 1 million women face concurrent threats of physical, sexual, emotional violence. 170 thousand women are threatened/attacked with lethal objects. Among divorced/separated women, almost 123 thousand severe violence survivors confront high-risk of femicide.

Smart Device to Protect Women from Dangerous Situations

India is a country which is having more youth man power. If we want our country to be a developed one we need to utilize both man and women resource also [2]. In order to achieve this both men and women should be treated equally without any gender discriminations. In order to achieve this we need to provide security for women who is working in late nights and travelling alone for home in order to prevent them from rapes and molestations. If any kind of molestations and rapes happen means it will going to be international news. Because of this entire government and whole country will put into shame. As women’s are going out for work and there are coming to home lately security for them from rapes and molestation plays a vital role in this security. We have to design a device to prevent this for some amount of time so that she can at least escape from that critical life threatening situation because always no one can able to monitor or can stay with her [2]. In order to achieve this we are designing a device that will going to use stun gun to generate small amount of electric shock so that it can make any person to be unconscious for some amount of time as well with the help of this device when she press stun gun it will going to trigger the Arduino [7] so that with the help of GSM [9] and GPS module [8] present in the device we can share the current location of the women in danger an alert message to the predefined users so that we can help the women in no time.

Drawing Dangerous Women: The Monstrous-Feminine, Taboo and Japanese Feminist Perspectives on the Female Form

During the twenty-first century, global developments with graphic texts have seen positive changes in the representation of characters and storylines representing female-led narratives and perspectives. Recent Japanese graphic texts offer an instructive window into concerns about feminist comics and graphic novels which not only represent a vital intervention in terms of contemporary Japanese feminist politics but also reinforce their relevance as feminist art activism within a global frame. Taking into account the popularity of manga worldwide this article argues that the growing range of Japanese texts with clear feminist messages marks an intervention on behalf of female creators in keeping with the theory and practice of contemporary feminist discourse. Additionally, this Japanese evolution illustrates the ways in which second wave feminism, particularly feminist art, has impacted women on a global scale. Consequently, the article explores the important role of intersectionality alongside themes relating to the body and sexuality, subversion of the monstrous feminine, feminist activism by considering the narrative of Rokudenashiko’s graphic memoir What is Obscenity?: The story of a good for nothing artist and her pussy (2016).

Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA): An Examination through Differential Association Theory

This paper applies Differential Association Theory to Patty Hearst’s involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a domestic terrorist group active in the 1970s. Developed by Edwin Sutherland, Differential Association Theory rests on the premise that behaviors – including criminal behaviors – are learned through prolonged group interaction and the sharing of ideas. This theory is frequently used in group psychology. An important conclusion of this analysis is that, as Differential Association Theory postulates, Hearst’s exposure to the SLA’s ideology and experience of physical and mental abuse resulted in her active participation in criminal activities with that terrorist group and rebellion against the wealthy elite that had raised her for the first 19 years of her life. In a similar vein, the impact of the media on shaping society’s perception of the SLA and Patty Hearst is also of utmost importance. Today, society remains unsure of whether Hearst was a violent terrorist and a dangerous woman, or an innocent victim and woman in danger.

Mestizaje mágico en la ciudad. Intercambios, apropiaciones y recepciones. El proceso inquisitorial contra María Flores «la llana Candela», 1699-1709

El siguiente artículo analizará uno de los procesos inquisitoriales desarrollados por el Santo Oficio de Lima entre los años 1699 y 1709. Entre los folios 109v y 111r del expediente 5.345, sección Inquisición de Lima (AHN), se describen las características per­sonales de una mujer cuyos actos, conocimientos e interacciones sociales demuestran las alianzas étnicas, culturales y, sobre todo, supersticiosas en torno a las prácticas mágicas urbanas. Su origen cusqueño, su oficio de hilandera y su calidad de mestiza ejemplifican los intercambios y las apropiaciones de aquellas prácticas y expresiones mágico-religiosas desarrolladas en la ciudad. En cada una de sus confesiones relata a los inquisidores las mo­vilidades, los conocimientos y las habilidades adquiridas a través de los años, pues su cali­dad de mestiza le permite fluctuar entre los mundos hispano e indígena y, al mismo tiempo, cargar consigo una serie de prejuicios que la facultan para el reconocimiento por parte de sus pares. No obstante, este mismo reconocimiento social la etiqueta como una mujer peli­grosa y, por tanto, transgresora. Por consiguiente, detallaremos aquellos diálogos, acciones y expresiones que aseveren las prácticas mágicas urbanas desarrolladas por sujetos cuya posición social simbolizan, por un lado, el intercambio mágico-religioso entre las distintas categorías étnicas y, por otro, una amenaza para las autoridades inquisitoriales.