Sexual Violence Deconstructed: Simone de Beavoir, Angela Carter and Rikki Ducornet Investigate Sade

The Marquis de Sade and induced abortion.

In 1795 the Marquis de Sade published his La Philosophic dans le boudoir, in which he proposed the use of induced abortion for social reasons and as a means of population control. It is from this time that medical and social acceptance of abortion can be dated, although previously the subject had not been discussed in public in modern times. It is suggested that it was largely due to de Sade's ...

These Women Murder : Sexual Politics in Sade and “ The

Often called the most “modern” of the great classical tragedians, Euripides is a figure of some ambivalence, and his final play, The Bacchae confirms the ambiguities—as well as the power—of Euripidean drama. This paper examines the dynamics of gender and sexual politics in late classical Greece via The Bacchae. After an analysis of the play in its social and historical context, attention will t...

Leda or Living Doll ? Women as Dolls in Angela Carter ’ s The Magic Toyshop

Social constraints and sexual violence: experiences of female victims of sexual violence of receiving health care services

Because of the nature of sexual violence, using medical services by female victims is different from use of these services in other circumstance. Thus, this qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis to understand particular experiences of female victims of sexual violence of receiving medical services. In-depth non-structured interviews were performed with 10 purposefu...

Bullying and Sexual Violence

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Abstract Bullying experiences and male sexual violence (SV) perpetration are major public health problems, and while extant literature suggests that they may share some developmental correlates, there is no established emp...