Violence against women

Anti-Sexism | Feminist Movement | UN Fourth World Conference on Women - Bejing, China | GLBTQ | INCITE | Men's Liberation | Conclusion| Anti-Sexism Sources

Part of the way sexism stays in place is the societal promise of survival fase and unfulfilled as itis, that women will not suffere violence if we attach ourselves to a man to protect us. A woman without a man is told she is cunverable to external violence and, worse, that there is something wrong with her... When she seeks assistane fromwoman friends or a battered women's shelter, he recognizes the power in woman bonding and fears loss of her servitude and loyalty: the potential loss of his control. The concern is not affectional/sexual identity: the concern is disloyalty adn the threat is violence - Suzanne Pharr