![]() ![]() The fourth essay examines marriage equality suggesting that those who oppose same-sex marriage are motivated by a desire to maintain traditional gender roles. She also draws symbolic parallels between Strauss-Kahn’s alleged actions and neo-colonial violence enacted by Western institutions like the IMF. She uses this encounter to explore the roles of gender, power, and privilege in enabling men to commit violence against women. The third essay continues to explore violence against women, focusing on the alleged sexual assault of Nafissatou Diallo, an African immigrant working as a hotel maid, by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ![]() ![]() From this she concludes that tackling violence against women will require us to properly recognize the way gender roles and masculinity help perpetuate abuse. She observes that the vast majority of this violence is committed by men but that this pattern of gendered abuse is rarely recognized or discussed. The second essay explores violence against women, providing a variety of statistics that demonstrate the scale of rape, domestic violence, and other abuse in the U.S. ![]()
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