Women and Children Innocent Victims of Sexual Violence

Contents: Preface. 1. Gender and sexual violence. 2. Family and community violence and children. 3. Abolition of marital chastisement. 4. Regulating marital violence in an era of companionate marriage. 5. The precarious structure of masculine identity. 6. Social cognitive theory with differences among sexually aggressive and non aggressive children. 7. The invisibility of gender at work. 8. Hostile work environment harassment. Bibliography. Index.

Sexual abuse takes place any time a person is tricked trapped forced or bribed into a sexual act. It most often involves unwanted touching of the male or female victim. Child sexual abuse may be called child molestation child rape or incest. Sexual abuse molestation rape or incest is wrong because it hurts people. Sometimes it hurts the victim physically. More often it causes the victim to suffer psychologically. It can cause mild to severe problems with fear confusion anger shame depression and lowered self esteem for the victim. It can also cause other serious problems later in life. Most males and females who were sexually abused as children go on to lead satisfying and productive lives but many still suffer from the effects of child molestation child rape or incest in some way even years later.

Women and children around the world suffer violence in multiple forms from rape and assault to forced marriage honour crimes female genital mutilation trafficking and use as child soldiers. The effect on them and their societies is profound. Action aid and others claim that at least one in three women around the world has been beaten coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime. As women are so often culturally the second sex the incidence of general abuse is likely to be even higher. (jacket)