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Battered Women , Public Health , Public Policy , Battered Women/history , Battered Women/legislation & jurisprudence , Domestic Violence/economics , Domestic Violence/history , Domestic Violence/legislation & jurisprudence , Female , History, 20th Century , Humans , Public Health/economics , Public Health/history , Public Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Public Health Administration/economics , Public Health Administration/history , Public Health Administration/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Work/economics , Social Work/history , Social Work/legislation & jurisprudence , Sweden/ethnology , Women/historyABSTRACT
PIP: This paper offers a critical exploration of a form of pornography consisting in sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls with disabilities. This practice allows men to create and maintain their sexual dominance over the female gender. Disability pornography, like all other forms of pornography, but in its own way, contributes to the second-class status of all women, particularly those who are suffering from limitations in mobility and other disabilities. By promoting the castrating, dominant, violent image of women, pornography allows men to justify their abusive behaviors toward women. This form of pornography preys on the vulnerability of disabled women and increases the possibility that they will be abused. The sexually explicit lack of physical mobility is as celebrated in disability pornography as the political mobility of women is condemned in all genres of pornography. Amputee pornography is just one example of this brutal practice.^ieng
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Disabled Persons , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Motion Pictures , Sex Offenses , Violence , Women's Rights , Women , Behavior , Communication , Crime , Demography , Economics , Mass Media , Population , Population Characteristics , Social Problems , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
This article explores the politics of "reclamation." Its focus is on pink and black triangles, currently used as symbols for gay and lesbian pride and liberation. Previously, these same identifiers were worn by those destined for annihilation during the Holocaust. I suggest that, in [re]claiming these markers, activists, however well intentioned, run a path dangerously close to the denial of history.
