VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Violence against Women

Violence against Women

Thesis Statement

Women in Islam have always been stereotyped as victims of male suppression, subjugation and violence. The notion cannot be generalised to every woman practising the religion. Still, a surprisingly large number of females are made victims of domestic abuse, forcibly married, made to wear a veil and denied education. It is high time that the government as well as NGOs work toward this cause and give them rights that they deserve.

Introduction

Violence against women is all kinds of violence perpetrated against women by a woman. This violence is a consequence of the historical position of women in the family patriarchal subordinate to the male, lacking full rights as a person. Violence against women has many facets ranging from discrimination and contempt to physical aggression or psychological and murder. Occurred in very different settings (family, work, training is particularly dramatic), in the field of couples and domestic, in which women are killed annually by their partners for dozens or hundreds in different countries world. The United Nations at its 85th plenary meeting, on December 20, 1993, ratified the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is recognized as a serious violation of human rights and "urges that make every effort to make it known and respected (Ali-Karamali, 2008).

Domestic Violence against Women

Violence against women is linked to the treatment of women that emerge from the patriarchal family. Humanity in its origins could be made up of matriarchal communities, elaborated on Lewis Henry Morgan, considered one of the founders of anthropology, modern, in his book Primitive society, in 1877. "The abolition of mother right was [could be] the great defeat of the female sex" (Mechanic, Weaver & Resick, 2008). Currently, the patriarchal family may appear blurred after centuries of efforts to emancipate women, in their origins, became the subject of women in property man, the patriarch. It belonged to the patriarch of material goods and family members. So the woman went to the father's hands into the hands of her husband, both having full authority over it, may decide, even on his life. Women were excluded from society, was part of the heritage of the family, relegated to the reproductive and domestic work (Roald, 2009).

This ancestral patriarchal family model suffered during the Republic and the Empire numerous modifications. The right of life of women was abolished. In this, he was reserving the death penalty in certain cases, but it was not the husband who decided on it being the judge in charge of community. At times, the woman came to get some emancipation could divorce on equal terms with men, leaving women to appear as selfless, sacrificial and submissive in the relationship between spouses was the husband's authority nuanced. This occurred mainly in the upper classes and did not stop the violence continue giving within marriage "managed to control and subjugate women by physical assault or murder" (Goodman & Keita, 2010). The advances that may have occurred during the Roman Republic and the Empire disappeared ...