Resilience
Term originally used in physics to refer to a material’s resistance and power to return to its original form after […]
Term originally used in physics to refer to a material’s resistance and power to return to its original form after […]
Concept formulated by Judith Fetterley in The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (1978), in which she argued
Practice that forces a woman in a situation of male violence to experience additional suffering or abuse as a consequence
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The obtaining of sexual, voyeuristic pleasure by looking at nude bodies or watching people perform some kind of sexual activity
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Violation of the sexual freedom and bodily integrity of another person, against their will, through the use of violence, coercion
Offence that involves demanding or requesting sexual favours (from touching to full intercourse) in work, teaching or other contexts, and
Term referring to the set of experiences, practices and feelings linked to sex and sexual instinct. Sexuality is a complex
Violence committed indirectly through symbols, values and beliefs that justify and legitimize structural violence. It is carried out depending on
Violence used structurally by a system that favours certain social groups, regardless of the specific interaction at any given time
Concept formulated by Katha Pollitt in The Smurfette Principle (1991) and developed by feminist and post-feminist theories to describe the
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