Women Violence in Mexico
In ancient history, women were treated and accepted differently in societies, due to their gender. An example of such gender-based practices was violence against women. Unfortunately, women violence still exists today. Every day, women from multiple backgrounds are affected by this practice, a violation of human rights. An example of a country in which the women are currently facing this problem is Mexico. Violence against women in Mexico is comprised of different forms, caused by social factors, and shown to have a negative impact on society.
Foremost, violence against women is composed of physical, sexual, economic, and psychological violence. Approximately ninety percent of women in the communities of Sierra Tarahumara faced some form of violence, including rape and murder (Ramos). In Ciudad Juárez, women were kidnapped, killed, and dumped in valley graves (Cave). Seven young women in a youth camp were raped by a group of men in Mexico City (Williams). According to the Nacional de Salud Pública, up to thirty percent of women in Mexico experienced sexual aggression and a close number of women suffered physical assault (Orozco 751). Likewise, around thirty-eight percent of Mexican women were reported to have dealt with psychological violence (Orozco 751). A portion of women violence in Mexico is associated with domestic violence, which includes similar forms of maltreatment. In Mexico, each day, a reported average of five men murder their intimate partners (Orozco 751). Additionally, data provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography indicated that close to five million women experienced economic abuse inflicted by their husbands (Orozco 751). This problem was found to be more prevalent...
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...ance for violence (Orozco 753). In a relationship, a man who practices violence in order to maintain dominant social relationships is referred to as a machista (Orozco 752). Studies have shown that intimate partners of machistas were more likely to accept violence as a common factor of couple relationships (Orozco 753).
With all things considered, violence against women is composed of different forms, caused by social factors, and found to have a negative impact on society. This issue includes physical, sexual, economic, and psychological violence. It is caused by female inferiority in Mexican society and leads to negative effects within the victims. Although violence is a danger that Mexican women face daily, there is hope that the desire for a life free of abuse will spread across the country and women will join together and take action to protect their rights.
Casa de Esperanza is a non-profit organization created to serve immigrants and their families who need affordable legitimate educational and social services, as well as a place to go when they need help. A refuge, providing protection, schooling for people caught in the series of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is healing communities where victims can receive the nurturing also support necessary, to their efforts in gathering control of their own lives. The actions of administrative organizations within the laws, practices, regulatory measures, and funding priorities strongly have emotional impact how females and their relatives experience life and freedom from domestic violence. This expanse
Lira, L. R., Koss, M. P., & Russo, N. F. (1999). Mexican American women’s definitions of rape and sexual abuse. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 21, 236–265.
Femicide is violence and hate towards women due to the extreme aggressive machismo, gender inequalities and discrimination, and economic disempowerment embedded in Latino culture (Prieto-Carron, 26). To put differently, femicide is an epidemic that has occurred for years in Latino countries, but is more prevalent today due to the systematic corruption in society and media coverage. For instance, in the poem this issue is expressed when I assert “I watch for my sisters. I grieve for those who have been raped and killed, only to be forgotten and marginalized” (Line 15-16). To clarify, many women in Central America are killed due to this gender-based violence that is historically linked to the colonial period, when the Europeans categorized women inferior to men. This patriarchal mentality is instituted to many systems that it becomes normalize and ignored. According Mariana Prieto-Carron, who analyzes femicide in Central American countries, states, “those in power, both in the household and in state institutions, can exert greater control over women’s behavior and mobility” (Prieto-Carron, 30). In other words, this is a form of social-control from the elite in order to regulate women and keep them from going against hegemonic patriarchal society. These social constructs are restraining women from social mobility and freedom. Correspondingly, when I
National data gives us an indication of the severity of this issue. When 1 in 5-woman report being victims of severe physical violence (NISVS, 2010), we must ask ourselves if enough is being done to prevent this from occurring. From a historical point, there has always almost been a distinction from men on woman violence. Based on the disparity of cases reported, male inflicted violence on females is much higher and prevalent. When the perpetrators of DV, and IPV are predominately males, we can no longer dismissed this issue as a cultural, or
An overwhelming number of murders of women have not been clarified or resolved in our country, so that these offenses remain in impunity. Impunity of femicide in Guatemala is due to:
Domestic violence involves the systematic use of force, threats and intimidation by one partner upon another in order for the dominating partner to have control over the victim. In general, women who are abused physically are often isolated. Their partners tend to control their lives to a great extent as well as verbally degrade them. Even though the Latina women are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence because of their culture, it does not mean that this situation does not exist in other societies. Domestic violence happens in all races, religions and social statuses. It could appear in any family and in order to prevent it, everyone in the society must have knowledge of the problem, and try to contribute to stop it. There are many reasons why Latina women that have been abused by their husbands do not ask for help or call the police. The most common ones are the cultural background, the language barrier, and the fear they have of being alone. In the Latin culture there is the belief that when a woman gets married, she should obey he...
The statistics available on violence against women are startling. Domestic violence is the major cause of death and disability for European women ages 16 to 44 and accounts for more deaths and injuries than automobile accidents and cancer. The Russian government estimates that over 14,000 women were killed by family members in 1999, but there is still no legislation that specifically addresses domestic violence. In South Africa, more women are shot in the home by relatives than are shot on the streets or by intruders (web.amnesty.org).
According to Angelari, Marguerite (1997), “this is a technical term used to collectively refer to violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. Similar to a hate crime, which it is sometimes considered, this type of violence targets a specific group with the victim's gender as a primary motive”. This means that these violence acts are specifically directed to women in our society. Examples of the types of violence against women are: financial, emotional, physical, social and sexual violence. According to Prugl, E (2013), “forms of violence perpetrated by individuals are rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, coercive use of contraceptives, female infanticide, prenatal sex selection, obstetric violence, harmful customary or traditional practices such as honor killings, dowry violence, female genital mutilation, marriage by abduction and forced marriage.”
Since 1970, there has been an increasing and alarming rise 138 percent of violent crimes committed by women. Still, while the equivalent percentage compared to male violence is small 15 percent to 85 percent the fact that the numbers have elevated so drastically points to something changing in society.
The researcher Michael T Johnson in 1995 investigated data from the National Family Violence Survey. Johnson reported that “…young married Hispanic women were more likely to experience domestic violence” (). The racial and ethnic groups revealed differences in rates and the forms of abuse. Researchers reported than African American and Hispanic women with low household income and educational status experienced greatest rates of family and domestic violence. According to Women of Color Network (2006) “African American women reported 29.1% intimated partner violence (sexually, physically, and mentally); on the other hand, Hispanic females reported 21.2%” (p. 1-4). The domestic violence rates among African American and Hispanic women have beben related to the sociocultural beliefs of the acceptance of marital abuse; especially, if women have low educational levels and are financially
This United States of America is not fond of undocumented immigrants, especially women. Cruel anti-immigrant laws, policies, and practices have had especially dramatic impact on immigrant women and their families. These measures force immigrant women to choose between the threat of an abusive husband and the threat of deportation if they call the police. Immigration policies can also make women sit in detention, thus leaving their children. During this time, some of the women might be raped by officers. This is because detention lacks sexual abuse prevention policies. These women who are in the detention centers are not dangerous, instead they are placed behind bars because of small crimes such as driving without a license or they are charged the civil crime for violating immigration laws.Women are faced with the emotional burden of separation from their families.
Rivera, Jenny. Domestic Violence against Latinas by Latino Males._Critical Race Feminism_. Adrien Katherine Wing. New York and London: New York University Press, 1997. 259-266.
In concluding this paper, domestic violence shared a lot about Colonial Latin American society. This society held honour and reputation in the highest regards, willing to do anything to protect their names. A damaged reputation not only effected the person, but the entire family. It was the role of the male to protect both his and his families honour, which was seem in controlling his family. If a husband thought his wife was a risk to his family’s honour, it was deemed socially acceptable to “correct” her through physical violence. Physical violence as a form of control was a part of Colonial Latin American life and society, it was the right of the patriarchal figure. Through the control of the family, social order could be maintained. Although
Violence against women appeared from a long time ago and happened in every country. It caused pain in both mental and physical for women. There were so many people trying to stop this problem but it was still not completely fixed. There are many reasons that lead to this issue all over the world. After many surveys and investigations, we realized that the main reason is Discrimination and Unequal power. Some legends and stories in the past made people think men’s role is more important than women’s role in society. And because men are stronger, more active than women so they can do more work. This also makes people think men deserve more rights than women. They soon forced on human’s mind that men are also...