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Lesbian, gay or bisexual identity as a risk factor for trauma and mental health problems in Northern Irish students and the protective role of social support

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2020
Background: People identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) have been shown to experience more trauma and poorer mental health than their heterosexual counterparts, particularly in countries with discriminatory laws and policies. Northern Ireland is
Áine Travers   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Silencing of Rape: Treatment of Rape Events and Rape Victims by Media and Fiction [PDF]

open access: yesJurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2020
Sexual abuse affects over 120 million children globally (UNICEF, 2018). There has been a total of 48, 338 cases of rape of minors in India, with an increase of 336% from 2,113 in 2001 to 7,112 in 2011 (Gohain, 2013). In US, almost half of female victims (46.7%) had been raped by an acquaintance (Breiding, 2014), with assaults (55%) occurring at or near
Shahid, Ahmad   +2 more
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How is rape a weapon of war?: feminist international relations, modes of critical explanation and the study of wartime sexual violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Rape is a weapon of war. Establishing this now common claim has been an achievement of feminist scholarship and activism and reveals wartime sexual violence as a social act marked by gendered power. But the consensus that rape is a weapon of war obscures
Bjørnlund M   +30 more
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Victim blaming, prior history to sexual victimization, support for sexually assaulted friends, and rape myths acceptance as predictors of attitudes towards rape victims in the general population of Pakistan

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2023
Background Individuals who have been sexually assaulted often turn to their friends for comfort and support. Responses to such disclosures vary greatly and may be influenced by prior victimization, the relationship of the disclosure recipient to the ...
Syed Messum Ali Kazmi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“A Right Judgment”: Rape Trial Conventions Revisited in Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article argues that in both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749), Henry Fielding, who practiced law and wrote novels when both were undergoing significant transformations, takes what could have been archetypal scenes of rape and rescue and ...
Bloom Bissonette, Melissa
core   +2 more sources

Perfusable Brain Microvascular Network‐On‐Chip Model to Study Flavivirus NS1‐Induced Endothelial Dysfunction

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a microfluidic brain microvascular network‐on‐chip (BMVasChip) to investigate endothelial barrier dysfunction caused by flavivirus non‐structural protein 1 (NS1), including virus‐ and time‐dependent vascular damage, leakiness, and dysfunction.
Monika Rajput   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A computer-assisted textual analysis of 10,191 rape news headlines shared on social media

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
Although rape is prevalent in Bangladesh, we have limited knowledge about how the media reports rape news. This study analyzed 10,191 headlines of rape news shared on ten Bangladeshi media's Facebook pages between 2013 and 2021.
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
doaj  

Ultrahigh Conductive MXene Films for Broadband Electromagnetic Interference Shielding

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A new series of nitrogen‐substituted MXene films, spanning the full composition range, achieves record‐high conductivity (35 000 S cm⁻¹) and outstanding electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding across X, Ka, and W bands, even in ultrathin layers.
Ju‐Hyoung Han   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rape and rebellion [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2013
The Oxford Dictionary gives a definition of the word ‘rape’ as: “late Middle English (originally denoting violent seizure of property, later carrying off a woman by force): from Anglo-Norman French rap (noun), raper (verb), from Latin rapere ‘ seize’ ”. This definition shows that rape has meant different things at different times in history.
openaire   +3 more sources

Rape Messaging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
When feminists began advocating for rape reform in the 1970s, the rape message was clear: rape was not a crime to be taken seriously because women lie.
Allen, Alena
core   +1 more source

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