Day 4 - Global Fleshmapping: As Prostitution and Rape Marginalize and Oppress So Feminist Solidarity Resists
As Prostitution and Rape Marginalize and Oppress So Feminist Solidarity Resists
July 7, 2011
Violence against women (whether rape, wife abuse, incest or sexual harassment or prostitution) not only exploits women’s unequal status, but enforces that lower status and inequality. It is not only a set of incidents of the subjugation of individual women, but also a power that enforces women’s subjugation as a group.
Feminist solidarity leading women and society may be seen as an act of individuals creating a collective force of resistance. Solidarity as a movement is necessary to effectively resist sexist violence from rape to prostitution. To achieve our ends, that solidarity can and must be exercised on the frontline, in academic papers, in coalition, in court in the media and on the street.
How can we endure and overcome the destructive divisions that are being exploited by patriarchy and anti feminists?
How can we construct the solidarity we need?
Other Events from Day 4:
Women’s Worlds Closing Plenary Session: Breaking Grounds
Women’s Worlds Closing Remarks
Read more from the Other Days of Dialouge:
Day 1 - We are Living in the Belly of the Beast of Patriarchy
