"Understanding Violence Against Women: Typology, Logic, and Combating Strategies in France"
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Violence against women, domestic violence, sexual harassment, women trafficking, gender based violence, Istanbul Convention, French policies, intimate partner violence
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"Discover the critical issue of violence against women, a universal social phenomenon affecting all human societies. Learn about the various forms of violence, including physical, sexual, psychological, and economic harm, as defined by the Istanbul Convention. Understand the prevalence of violence against women in France, where 219,000 women are estimated to be victims of intimate partner violence annually. Explore the different types of violence, such as harassment, domestic violence, and human trafficking, and the importance of recognizing the logic behind threats and violence. Gain insights into the need for effective action plans to combat violence against women and support those affected."
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[...] In this sense, in some cases, the 'social mask' allows to hide the stigmas, to take up the terminology of Erving Goffman3, These can mainly materialize through consequences on the physical appearance of women (black eye, cut lip, etc.). From then on, we can assert that violence against women does not 'concern' in some way the social classes in that we find acts of violence as much in the favored as in the disadvantaged classes, even if the media sphere generally focuses on violence concerning the latter class. [...]
[...] In this sense, for Ernestine Ronai, "in order to help women who are victims and their children to get out of the hell of domestic violence, one must oneself have acquired certain knowledge about the functioning of these violences"6 » (Ronai, 2019). Therefore, understanding the logic of violence that makes threats a prerequisite is necessary and indispensable in order to establish action plans to effectively combat all types of violence against women. [...]
[...] Harassment This is the most common form of violence against women. It can take the form of "moral" control, that is, to control the woman's behavior against her will. This is called emotional manipulation. The other is sexual harassment, which can range from inappropriate gestures to rape, the most extreme form. Sexual harassment can occur both by chance and within the couple, or" via la family Women trafficking The sexual trafficking of women through forced prostitution constitutes an extreme form of violence against women. [...]
[...] This "experienced situation" can therefore be assimilated by the threats which are the signs if they are recurrent which prepare for the passage to action. However, this logic can also be appreciated as a training effect which will make the threat a reprehensible social act (violence) by society. This threat is therefore the implementation of violence. It remains this invariant which prepares for a violent act. These various mechanisms that make threats a prelude to violence, including domestic violence, must be appreciated in order to help women who make such requests. [...]
[...] However, violence against women remains an important field, as it inscribes itself in a major temporality and actuality (at least in France) with the media coverage of femicides, that is to say the murder of the female partner by her husband or her male partner. However, we must retain a precise definition in order to be objective on the subject. In this sense, as shown by the specialist Sophie Simon, "the Council of Europe's Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the 'Istanbul Convention'), ratified by France on 4 July 2014, defines violence against women as 'all acts of gender-based violence that cause, or are likely to cause, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women'1 » (Simon, 2014). [...]
