LAP 4

Ms. Rothweiler

10 Class Meetings

Nov 16- Dec 14

Incarnate Word
Academy

Violence: Home, Play, and

Work
A problem that has no borders
Wikipedia defines Violence against women as a term that is used to collectively refer to violent
acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. Simply because the person is
female justifies the verbal, emotional, or physical attacks. The Fawcett Society of the United
Kingdom says that violence against women is endemic across the world. The problem is so
massive that even the United Nations has taken steps to thwart the epidemic which crosses all
international borders.
The UN Assembly defines "violence against women" as "any act of gender-based violence that
results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including
threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in
private life." The UN has called for international awareness of the problem due to the fact that
violence affects the lives of millions of women worldwide, in all socio-economic and educational
classes. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers, impeding the right of women to participate
fully in society. According to a 2013 global review of available data, 35 per cent of women
worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner
sexual violence. However, some national violence studies show that up to 70 per cent of women
have experienced physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime from an intimate partner.
In Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States, intimate partner violence
accounts for between 40 and 70 per cent of female murder victims [2].
More than 64 million girls worldwide are child brides, with 46 per cent of women aged 2024
in South Asia and 41 per cent in West and Central Africa reporting that they married before
the age of 18. Child marriage resulting in early and unwanted pregnancies poses lifethreatening risks for adolescent girls; worldwide, pregnancy-related complications are the
leading cause of death for 15-to-19-year-old girls [3]
Approximately 140 million girls and women in the world have suffered female genital
mutilation/cutting [4].
Trafficking ensnares millions of women and girls in modern-day slavery. Women and girls
represent 55 per cent of the estimated 20.9 million victims of forced labour worldwide, and
98 per cent of the estimated 4.5 million forced into sexual exploitation [5].

Rape has been a rampant tactic in modern wars. Conservative estimates suggest that
20,000 to 50,000 women were raped during the 19921995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina
[6], while approximately 250,000 to 500,000 women and girls were targeted in the 1994
Rwandan genocide [7].
Between 40 and 50 per cent of women in European Union countries experience unwanted
sexual advances, physical contact or other forms of sexual harassment at work [8]
In the United States, 83 per cent of girls aged 12 to 16 have experienced some form of
sexual harassment in public schools [9].- (See more at: http://www.unwomen.org/en/whatwe-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures#sthash.dIu1LlmB.dpuf. )

As UNICEF states:
Women and children are often in great danger in the place where they should be safest: within
their families. For many,
home is where they face a regime of terror and violence at the hands of somebody close to them
somebody they should be able to trust. Those victimized suffer physically and psychologically.
They are unable to make their own decisions, voice their own opinions or protect themselves and
their children for fear of further repercussions. Their human rights are denied and their lives are
stolen from them by the ever-present threat of violence.
But the violence permeates beyond the home. Women are attack on college campuses, on the
street, and even in the workplace. In the latter case, the violence is more emotional and covert but
equally as harmful to the psychological well- being of the women. Violence against women is
wrapped into child marriages, female circumcision, pornography, and prostitution. All are violations
of the most fundamental human rights.
Rationale:
This LAP focuses on the issue of violence against women and the ways women can resist that
violence. It analyzes the political context out of which violence occurs, centering on male
domination, misogyny, and other systems of inequality and privilege in womens everyday lives.
The LAP includes discussion of violence against women as systemic in patriarchal societies
around the world and focuses on rape, battering and physical abuse, stalking, incest,
molestation, and pornography.
As women, it is important for each of you to realize the nature of violence, the overt and
covert forms it takes on, and the effective and ineffective responses to violence

Objectives
1. Discuss how violence against women is an international problem
2. Discuss how women are impacted by violence in the workplace, school, and home
3.. Explain misogynous violence and context associated with the discussion of backlash.
4. Analyze the aspect of rape. In terms of perpetrators, types, and the ability to prosecute
5. Evaluate the myths related to rape and why these myths are perpetuated
6. Evaluate why men batter or physically abuse women?
7. Define/Identify the following including significance:
rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, molestation, incest, rape spectrum, sexual terrorism, altruistic sex,
compliant sex, date rape, public policy, date rape, date abuse, Sexual harassment, domestic violence,
trafficking, honor killings, genital mutilation, acid burning, dowry death, comparable worth, Title IX, Violence
Against Women Act

Assignments not due for a specific class meeting

Discussion Board: Why is violence against women at a
pandemic level despite the fact that awareness of womens
rights has increased. Your Original response due
Dec 7, Response to another Dec 12
Assignment Calendar
Essential Questions: How do political and economic systems victimize women?
What makes school and the workplace unsafe?
Class Meetings:
First Class
Meeting
First

Date and Day of

Cycle

Focus

Assignments Due
none

Second

48 Hours War Against

Women
Half the Sky

Third

Half the Sky

None

none

Fourth

A Day Dec 4 Beauty

B Day Dec 7 Male

Sex trafficking

4-1

Fifth

B Day Dec 7 Beauty

D Day Dec 9 Male

4-2

Sixth

D Day Dec 9 Beauty

E Day Dec 10 Male

Resisting Violence
Against
Women
Prostitution

Seventh

E Day Dec 10 Beauty Violence at home

G Day Dec 14 Male

4-3
4-4

Assignments

Due Date

4. 1

Read pages the introduction to chapter 10 in tan book

Pages 503-524. Answer the questions on google classroom
Assignment 4-1

Fourth Class

4-2

Read the following articles in the book

Fifth Class

Beyond the politics of Inclusion (p 525)

She Said (p. 528)
Betrayed by the Angel (p.534)
Textual Harassment (p. 540)
Lisas Ritual Age 10 (p.542)
For each write a 2-3 reaction on google classroom

4-3. In your text read pages 391-413

Answer the questions on Google classroom
4-4 Define/identify the terms in LAP Objective 9: Google

Sixth Class
Seventh Class