IF GENDER IS SYMPTOM WHAT IS THE CAUSE
IF GENDER IS SYMPTOM WHAT IS THE CAUSE
The crimes against women in the form of gender violence have been augmented day by day. The crimes reveal the truth transparently that gender violence against women is symptom which should be rooted out very earlier for the betterment of the society as well as the emancipation of women. American psychoanalyst Robert Stoller said that the behavioural and cultural practices of a man which were constructed by the society, known as ‘gender’. We have the ideas that woman is only a physical being with distinguished biological structures. She has to produce children as machine, due to her destiny throughout her life. The French feminist Simone De Beauvoir states in her book ‘The Second Sex’, “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman”. From her statement we understand that the socio-economic circumstances have tended to channel woman into occupying such roles. From the above we can know that the patriarchal society is the main cause for violence against women as well as their oppression. The patriarchal society stretched its hand further with the invention of structural forms of violence through economic, social and cultural process.
Denial of property to women, denial of their labour, denial of equal education are the forms of economic violence against women. The discrimination of women’s mobilization and freedom may be knows as the social violence. It deprives them of their basic education, nutrition, health, etc. It forces them to marry at the earlier age and to bear male children as the pride of the family.
Sometimes a woman’s greatest risk of violence is nowhere, but from someone whom she knew well. Yes it is true; many women are murdered for dowry by their family members. The existing anti-dowry law has not been effective to control the dowry deaths. The reason for this kind of violence may be the poverty or the loss of business. Even if they make complaints against the evil doers, sometimes the police act as broker to compromise and dissuade the complaints from carrying on. Women who want to have mixed marriages are killed by their family in the name of ‘honour killing’ to product their caste-blood relations for the sake of the mortal glory.
The present society has become more violent thanks to the multinational companies, which introduced the corporate culture that creating a culture of violence, aggression, oppression against women along with the hands of media. For instance, many women are molested, raped and sexually abused in the Bpos.It could be shortly said the words of Malini Bhattacharya, the member of National Commission for Women, “violence has always been there; it is being reinvented”.
The most crucial forms of gender violence are trafficking and genital mutilation. Many girls and women are abducted and brutally forced into the flesh trade. It is reported nearly 200 girls and women are compelled to enter into the flesh trade everyday in India. Another gender violence, girls and women face today is the removal of genital mutilation. It is practiced on the pretext of cultural tradition in 28 African countries. More than 130 million young girls have undergone this female genital mutilation because of this violent act, many have HIV positive along with devastating psychological effects.
We all witness gender violence against women in our every day life and keep silent and not worrying about them. But we should remember the following statement, “If injustice is happening to your neighbour and you can sleep, wait for your turn because you are next”. We should all stand together as frontline leaders to abolish the gender violence against women, otherwise tomorrow it could be you or me.
- J.AMALA GNANA PRABHU
The crimes against women in the form of gender violence have been augmented day by day. The crimes reveal the truth transparently that gender violence against women is symptom which should be rooted out very earlier for the betterment of the society as well as the emancipation of women. American psychoanalyst Robert Stoller said that the behavioural and cultural practices of a man which were constructed by the society, known as ‘gender’. We have the ideas that woman is only a physical being with distinguished biological structures. She has to produce children as machine, due to her destiny throughout her life. The French feminist Simone De Beauvoir states in her book ‘The Second Sex’, “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman”. From her statement we understand that the socio-economic circumstances have tended to channel woman into occupying such roles. From the above we can know that the patriarchal society is the main cause for violence against women as well as their oppression. The patriarchal society stretched its hand further with the invention of structural forms of violence through economic, social and cultural process.
Denial of property to women, denial of their labour, denial of equal education are the forms of economic violence against women. The discrimination of women’s mobilization and freedom may be knows as the social violence. It deprives them of their basic education, nutrition, health, etc. It forces them to marry at the earlier age and to bear male children as the pride of the family.
Sometimes a woman’s greatest risk of violence is nowhere, but from someone whom she knew well. Yes it is true; many women are murdered for dowry by their family members. The existing anti-dowry law has not been effective to control the dowry deaths. The reason for this kind of violence may be the poverty or the loss of business. Even if they make complaints against the evil doers, sometimes the police act as broker to compromise and dissuade the complaints from carrying on. Women who want to have mixed marriages are killed by their family in the name of ‘honour killing’ to product their caste-blood relations for the sake of the mortal glory.
The present society has become more violent thanks to the multinational companies, which introduced the corporate culture that creating a culture of violence, aggression, oppression against women along with the hands of media. For instance, many women are molested, raped and sexually abused in the Bpos.It could be shortly said the words of Malini Bhattacharya, the member of National Commission for Women, “violence has always been there; it is being reinvented”.
The most crucial forms of gender violence are trafficking and genital mutilation. Many girls and women are abducted and brutally forced into the flesh trade. It is reported nearly 200 girls and women are compelled to enter into the flesh trade everyday in India. Another gender violence, girls and women face today is the removal of genital mutilation. It is practiced on the pretext of cultural tradition in 28 African countries. More than 130 million young girls have undergone this female genital mutilation because of this violent act, many have HIV positive along with devastating psychological effects.
We all witness gender violence against women in our every day life and keep silent and not worrying about them. But we should remember the following statement, “If injustice is happening to your neighbour and you can sleep, wait for your turn because you are next”. We should all stand together as frontline leaders to abolish the gender violence against women, otherwise tomorrow it could be you or me.
- J.AMALA GNANA PRABHU
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