Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue

The Gender Violence

The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."


Risk factors
Factors found to be associated with intimate partner and sexual violence occur within individuals, families and communities and wider society. Some factors are associated with being a perpetrator of violence, some are associated with experiencing violence and some are associated with both.
Risk factors for both intimate partner and sexual violence include:

• lower levels of education (perpetration of sexual violence and experience of sexual violence);
• exposure to child maltreatment (perpetration and experience);
• witnessing family violence (perpetration and experience);
• antisocial personality disorder (perpetration);
• harmful use of alcohol (perpetration and experience);
• having multiple partners or suspected by their partners of infidelity (perpetration); and
• attitudes that are accepting of violence and gender inequality (perpetration and experience).

Factors specifically associated with intimate partner violence include:

• past history of violence;
• marital discord and dissatisfaction;
• difficulties in communicating between partners.

Factors specifically associated with sexual violence perpetration include:

• beliefs in family honour and sexual purity;
• ideologies of male sexual entitlement; and
• weak legal sanctions for sexual violence.

The unequal position of women relative to men and the normative use of violence to resolve conflict are strongly associated with both intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence.  Tomado de WHO (World Health Organization) en ingles y en español.

Task:  For the trimester, we are about to prepare the shooting of the promotional clip of the Short Ethic Movies Festival (now in its 5th edition). That's the reason why you should propose ideas.  Something to should be done by all ethic students. Working in group, 2 people, with these items: 

What is Gender Violence? how we can to combat? ...

... and  we  going to make a video 3-5 minutes.
Remember, you can use all types of technological systems, with nice music related to movies or your personal creation.

The Butterfly Circus and the History of one perseverance

•  What are the most important elements in Nick's story? Make a list
•  How inspires other not to give up when it comes to the unexpected?
• What makes your life a model?