Franca Viola’s abduction and rape was a watershed in improving the status of women in Italian society.
Tag: female sexuality
“In My Bed”: Sexual Violence Over Fifty Years on One College Campus
Sexual violence has been a consistent facet of college women’s experiences.
Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s
An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.
Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"
Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.
Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014
Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.
Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed
Why does Jack the Ripper generate so much popular interest?
"What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self
Some nineteenth-century British physicians looked towards physical embodiments of femaleness for explanations for breast cancer.