Tolkien and Rape

Extrapolation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
T. S. Miller ◽  
Elizabeth Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Monstrous Feminine

J. R. R. Tolkien’s representation of women in his fiction has generated a number of controversies since its original publication. This essay examines two major issues: an evasiveness in Tolkien’s treatment of sexual violence against women that is not disconnected from a gendered terror that underlies several moments in his works and functions to link women’s sexuality and desiring with death. Specifically, we read the author’s depiction of Shelob and her appetitive, arachnoid monstrosity as at once displacing sexual violence onto the monstrous feminine and evoking a revulsion at the aging female body. We next explore the consequences of the author’s depictions of women and his handling of sexual violence in close connection with his own 1939 public performance of Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale, a comic narrative turning on two rapes that Tolkien nevertheless conceals in a comparable fashion to his elision of sexual violence in Middle-earth.

Gender, Sexuality and Violence: Permissible Violence Against Women During the Partition of India and Pakistan

Hawwa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 396-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepa Narasimhan-Madhavan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Communal Violence ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Partition Of India

AbstractAugust 15, 1947 marked the division of India and the birth of Pakistan and resulted in a mass migration of Hindus to India and Muslims to the newly formed Pakistan. This day also marked the worst communal violence in India's history. The threats to family, religion, national status and security during the partition magnified the tension over ownership and honor in female sexuality, leading to terrible violence inflicted against the women of both societies. The sexual violence that occurred during the time of the partition of India and Pakistan illustrated an extreme manifestation of the societal view of women's sexuality, namely the need to control and own her. The violence also illustrated how women's sexuality symbolically represented power in the arrangement of gender relations in both the Hindu and Islamic communities in India. This article will address these concepts of sexuality through the examination of the partition of India and Pakistan as a theatre, in which, due to the heightened emotion of the situation, sexuality and power became especially commingled.

Views of Women’s Sexuality and Violence Against Women in Turkey

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Gursoy ◽  
William F. McCool ◽  
Serap Sahinoglu ◽  
Yasemin Yavuz Genc
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality

Transforming Lesbian Sexuality

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther D. Rothblum
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Lesbian Relationship ◽  
Lesbian Sexuality ◽  
The Media

Women are objectified and sexualized by the media and the economy, so that they live in a culture of sex. Lesbians are excluded from the mainstream sexual and appearance norms for women, yet are affected by these norms, including the association of sex and violence against women. The word sexuality has been used to connote both sexual orientation and sexual activity, and it is argued that this dual meaning illustrates the dominance of patriarchal definitions of women's sexuality. This article discusses methodologic issues in understanding who is a lesbian and presents various models or dimensions for understanding who is included in research about lesbians. It asks the question “What is sex?” and reviews the implications of this question for lesbian sexual activity. This question has implications for a collorary question: “What is a lesbian relationship?”, and the article discusses the implications of this question on various forms of sexual and nonsexual relationships among lesbians.

scholarly journals OF GOD’S IMAGE, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND FEMINIST REFLECTIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-137
Author(s):  
Sidney K Berman
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
God's Image ◽  
Biblical Teaching

This article interrogates what appears to be an inconsistency – the enduring prevalence of Christianity and the surge of gender-based violence (henceforth GBV) in Botswana, particularly as evidenced by murder-suicides. It investigates the possibility of a connection between Christianity and GBV. To search for such a connection, I used a feminist analytical approach to analyse the text of Hosea, Christian/Biblical teachings relating to gender and traditional Setswana socialisation. The book of Hosea, some Biblical teachings and some aspects of Setswana culture separate men and women in dualistic terms, present women as inferior to men, perceive women’s sexuality as devious, and prescribe violent control of women. Since this flawed outlook is evident in GBV in Botswana, I was led to investigate a hypothetical connection between GBV and Christian/ Biblical teaching. The article ends with recommendations for a response and for reconstructing a gender-empowering alternative.

Girl Wonder: Nathalia Crane, Poetic Prodigy of the 1920s

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
PAUL BRADLEY BELLEW
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Us

Largely forgotten today, from approximately the late 1910s through the 1930s, at least a dozen young girls brought out numerous books in the US. But there was one girl who was particularly talented and successful: Nathalia Crane, who published her first collection of poetry when she was just eleven years old in 1924. This article analyzes both her work and her reception from her first success through the subsequent controversy over her authorship instigated by a local Brooklyn newspaper. In the process, the article demonstrates the complicated connections between perceptions of girlhood and women's sexuality as they relate to political agency in the early twentieth-century United States.

Studies on Women's Sexuality in China since 1980: A Critical Review

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Yuxin ◽  
Sik-ying Ho Petula ◽  
Ng Man Lun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality

Shaping Women's Sexuality

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-90
Author(s):  
Carol Anderson Darling ◽  
J. Kenneth Davidson ◽  
Colleen Conway-Welch
Keyword(s):  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality
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