LAWS 3904 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Religious Abuse, General Social Survey, Psychological Abuse
21 Apr 2016
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Gender asymmetry in abuse sex is something you are born with, gender is acquired gender neutral terms exasperate the problem of underreporting and also trivialize women"s experiences only allows us to see certain things ex. Forced penetration emotional and psychological effect of including these cheapens the effects of interaction that are characterized by violence some feminists characterize these as early warning signs of physical abuse but not abuse in and of itself. We still see various rates of abuse across studies huge levels of variation. Stitch rule tendency of most people to judge how badly abused a women by how many stitches are needed in the er presumption that a women who doesn"t need stitches was not abused in this case. 1993 201,000 women reported being physically or sexually assaulted by an intimate partner. In 1999 and 2004, 220,000 and 196,000 women, respectively, were physically and/or sexually assaulted by a spousal partner during the preceding year.
