Where Does Patriarchal Violence Happen?
Patriarchal violence protrudes into every sector of life. It often starts in the home, where children and women are abused in private. In the tape, Our Cities, Our Lives: Battered Woman, a Personal Case History, the guests speak on the generational cycles of domestic violence, often fueled by the victim’s financial dependence on their abuser. Even if domestic violence is reported, police reports obscure the abuse as domestic disputes and officers avoid direct involvement, concluding it is a private matter that stays between husband and wife.
Similarly, the tape Sexual Harassment on the Job highlights the systemic obstacles women face when trying to report workplace abuse and harassment, especially if your employer is the person you are reporting. The decision to build a harassment case against your employer puts your stable income and overall financial status at risk.
When facing injustice, women are somehow made responsible for the violence they faced. They are instructed to build individual legal cases within a justice system that struggles to recognize women’s experiences of violence as a crime.