The women had no choice but to be punished the same way as men were; brutally. This involved being beaten, burned alive, and the women specially, drowning for committing adultery. The men sent to drown these women had been practising how to do so and this was a very common practise that would occur. There were torture devices that were used specially for women such as the ‘Breast Ripper’ also known as ‘Spider’. As the name suggests, the female’s breasts were ripped off by using claws which either would be heated or used cold.
Did Lepine come up with these ideas himself or was he a product of a society that dictated classical roles and oppression of women? The latter is probably true. The double standard that exists needs to be altered. When examining terrible acts like this threw a feminist perspective on crime, this idea becomes even more painfully
The simile represents the attack as a corruption of a mother child bond. Both writers’ use vampiric imagery to stress the bloodthirsty nature of the act; however Sethe’s attack can be viewed as more degenerate than the slave woman in Loveact. Sethe is physically oppressed by grown men, not children. The mental oppression that slavery inflicts upon Sethe is evidently seen throughout Beloved. “I’m still full of that”, “full” could be a metaphor for Sethe’s past, the iniquitous memories that slavery has
The story of Aileen Wuornos was of specific interest to the feminist movement. Wuornos was one of America’s most notorious female serial killers. She confessed to murdering seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, later asserting they raped or attempted to rape her while she was earning a living as a prostitute. She was found guilty, condemned to death for six of the murders, and put to death by means of a lethal injection on October 9, 2002 (Chesler 170). Was Aileen Wuornos justified in her retaliation?
Compelled to Crime: the gender entrapment of battered black women tells the stories of battered African American women who are being imprisoned at Rikers Island Correction Facility. Beth Richie explains that through “gender entrapment” these women have been marginalized by society and thrown aside, and left vulnerable to violence by the men in their lives. Without any other choice these women turn to fear and are thrown through the revolving door of the criminal justice system, which builds on their oppression. Summary Introduction Richie begins her book with a basic introduction; she explains how poor African American battered women are being restricted through their gender roles, stigmatisms based on their race and social class, and oppressed
She was torn to shreads, and was by far, the most horrific murder. All these victims, were infact prostitutes, all married at some point, and some in a going relationship, “JACK THE RIPPER” was known to see prostitutes as “unwealthy”, “dirty”, “useless”, and “a waste of London”, next we go onto looking at some of the top suspects for “JACK THE
How effectively is madness portrayed in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar? Between the 1940s and 1970s, in response to the conditions which were fuelling the second wave of feminism, literary women were exposing accounts of male oppression and irrationality towards women who would hitherto have been perceived as mentally ill. The Bell Jar (1963), by Sylvia Plath is a perfect example of an exposure of male brutality not uncommon of the time in which it was written: the account of the Argentinean misogynist, for instance, who beats and attempts to rape the novel’s protagonist. A few years later, ‘as if both to stress the historical weight of such behaviour and to emphasise the post-modern woman’s horror at its intensification’, Jean Rhys wrote a prequel to the classic Jane Eyre, rewriting the relationship between Bertha Mason Rochester and her husband from the point of view of the ‘madwoman in the attic’. In Wide Sargasso Sea, repainting the image given to the reader of Rochester, Rhys characterises him as the antagonist rather than the hero portrayed Jane Eyre, sympathetically transcribing Bertha’s stream-of-consciousness as the oppressed wife sinking into the madness he helped to cause.
The horrible murders had innumerable variations in the form and scope of the killing. Chinese soldiers were most often lined up in front of already dug mass graves and either open fired on them, used them for bayonet practice, or used them for their own amusement in killing competitions. Innocent men and women were burned alive, children, toddlers and infants were bayoneted, and life was truly Hell on earth. The treatment of Women in Nanking was even worse than that of the men. Women all over were rounded up and stolen as “prostitutes” (sex-slaves) for the Japanese soldiers.
She had no remorse in doing this. She also blackmailed most of the men she prostituted herself with for her own benefit. Cathy mentally destroyed many people like her English teacher who she mentally tortured so much that committed suicide. Cathy is a vulgar woman who lacks everything but corruption and her evilness is
If we look at the dishonorable and deadly women in the story we have to examine: Kalypso, Kirce, Skylla and Kharybdis, and the Sirens. Here we receive that overwhelmingly western message of woman as femme fatale: that deadly mixture of lust and love, pleasure and danger, pleasure and pain, pleasure and death, pleasure and slavery. Women consume, women demean, and women destroy. Kirke's who beguiles and bewitches. Kalypso’s dominates and hold captive.