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Violence Against Women as an area of study for feminists is a recent one. Feminists have not studied this area specifically and in an agreed upon manner until the recent past. In-fact its inception as an analytical category for feminists, in whichever area of work they may be in, seems as recent as the ‘80s and ‘90s. Until then, issues of labour, class, family were the traditional domains of feminist work. However, since the early ‘80s Violence Against Women has become extremely important for feminists, and this project hopes to understand certain moments in history when this category became important, through looking carefully at feminist interventions at different historical points in relation to nationalism and global pressures from institutions like the UN. This project then hopes to make a contribution to the present feminist debates regarding the object of study: the violated woman, constituted within other debates of nationalism and global interventions Read More...
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	Hot Topic: Women in Danger in Guatemala Murders of women and girls in Guatemala are steadily increasing, yet the authorities are paying little attention. At least 1,188 women were murdered in Guatemala between 2001 and 2004, many sexually assaulted and raped, but only 9% of these cases have been investigated. The authorities’ lack of response highlights and reinforces the discrimination against women that is at the core of the human rights crisis women are facing in Guatemala Read More...