Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The Atlanta gathering was particularly noteworthy for being predominantly people of color and women, and seemed to signal the emergence of a new generation of activists’ ’ in the trenches’ ’ of community resistance around issues like gentrification, AIDS, violence against women, Hurricane Katrina, and the war.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This shocked him as he had never considered violence against a woman before.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
You can read a lot about many’ ’ first places’ ’ on rankings by Guatemala: corruption, poverty, low literacy rates and violence against women.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In an April 5, 2004 column, Paige McKenzie wrote: “Throughout the 1990s, women’s magazine became focused less on fashion and more on features about violence against women and children, even though crime statistics were plummeting across the country…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Even is the group is atypical (and God knows we all hope it is) the chances are slim that there is not a single man there who has ever used violence against a woman.
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In Wikipedia:
In sentencing Shakur to one – and – a – half years in a correctional facility, the judge described the crime as “an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman”.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Many men have come to believe that violence against a woman, child or another man is an acceptable way to control another person.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Las Otras Hermanas (The Other Sisters) is part of Women Beyond Borders, a student – organized women’s human rights group that works with women’s organizations worldwide to end violence against women and promote women’s equity in all sectors.
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In the British National Corpus:
Section 28 is a fact; but violence against homosexual women and men is getting out of hand.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The Republican – led chamber also endorsed a’ ’ fetal homicide’ ’ bill that would create a separate murder charge for anyone who caused a pregnancy to be terminated through an act of violence against a pregnant woman.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It may be that the media’s failure to report the truth about violence against women lulls some white women into a sense of security, by providing them with a false safety barrier, and the belief that they can indulge a fantasy whilst risking only a slap, although some pay a higher price.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Critics took issue with Styron using the “myth of the black rapist”, as portraying black men as prone to sexual violence against white women.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
With so much hinging on the burgeoning power of women over household discretionary spending, the NRL can well do without suggestions that one of its high profile players has allegedly been involved in violence against a woman.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This semester, we will explore several themes in feminist, gender and women’s studies, cultural, and GLBT scholarship including women’s movements (past and future), social construction of gender, gender socialization, systems of privilege and inequality, sexuality, women’s bodies, body image, media and culture, violence against women, women’s health and reproductive rights, women and work, and family life.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He is now resorting to physical violence against a Hawaiian woman.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
These comments follow revelations that surfaced earlier this week where Mr. McKeever wrote Facebook posts using obscenities and threatening violence against a woman who had a different viewpoint than his own.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Though we are also very distressed about reports of violence – including sexual and physical violence against women and children – in the area caused largely by widespread chaos and desperation, we condemn the current mass militarization of the area.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
What about her strange comments about violence against women worldwide?
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In Wikipedia:
H. as well as her work with various Mental Health, VAW (violence against women) and HIV / AIDS organizations in Canada and Malawi.
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(. .)))
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