Sentences with phrase «means of controlling women»

My theory is that breasts have become so fetishized (as means of controlling women and our bodies) that when people see breastfeeding they see it as a sexual act.

Not exact matches

After all, targeted harassment is usually a means of asserting control and defending status on the part of the harasser, to leave victims «afraid, despairing, utterly alone, and complicit,» as Catharine A. MacKinnon wrote in her 1979 book «Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination.»

To answer such questions means going back into the same volatile villages surrounding Kandahar city where Canada's men and women fought and died — Panjwai and Zhari and the lush Arghandab valley — places that have continually see - sawed between Taliban and NATO control and where some of the most gruesome incidents have taken place, including the axe attack on Capt. Trevor Greene in March 2006.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

It is a new kind of Erastianism: the church being slowly but surely co-opted as a means of social control, subordinated to the whims of the political lobbyists as they press their commitments to creating a society of Psychological Men, Women, and all points in between through the law courts.

He states that true love means we must have control over our feelings, and that eros can only be raised to a gift of self if a man respects the dignity of woman.

It means us women are taking control of our childbirth and we have plenty of people on this planet.

Women not using modern contraceptives may be practicing traditional (albeit less pleasant or less effective) means of birth control.

It is time the church stayed out of the bedroom and educated themselves on the true benefits of birth control (not just meant to prevent pregnancy but then again maybe ensuring a woman's health is protected in other ways means nothing to you).

At least I find that the fear of same has contributed in controlling people from ab - using each other on the streets sw - earing calling names at each others beliefs, meaning that even if Jesus was s - worn at or called names at by a Muslim or non Muslim this will surely end up with the same faith of this woman since Jesus is as well Prophet and Messanger of God Allah and calling him names is just as equal guilt and that is the true law to be respected.

If a woman does not use contraception as a means of birth control, that is her business.

The right wing doesn't understand the bible — most probably never read it — it's simply a means to justify their hatred of gays and interfering with a woman's right to privacy and control of her own body (hmm... GOP against government intervention — but shaming women seems to be acceptable!).

I will fight for any religions right to practice as they wish as long as they don't stomp of individual rights and freedom of religion which means each person can make their religious moral judgements for themselves which is why there are millions of Christian women who have no problem with these 4 forms of birth control but they are now having their freedom of religion taken out of their hands and decided by their employer.

By 1972, when she was 15 and the Czech women's champion, she was competing regularly in Europe and North America and beginning to chafe at the restraints imposed by the Czech Tennis Federation, which controlled players by means of its power to rescind their travel permits.

What I meant was the RTC isn't possible to truly compare outcomes (b / c women will choose where they want to give birth and so variables related to those types of women would not be controlled for), so different studies are going to point to different outcomes, and every study can be criticized.

Some women use a method of lactational amenorrhea (LAM) as a means of birth control.

Greater information and research on what can make for an easier labor and pain management experience also means women are more in control than ever of their personal comforts during childbirth.

Of course, this does not mean that women have no control over their bodies and minds.

First, there is «feeling in control», which means something different for every woman — for example, for one woman, controlling the environment is important, while another needs to not be in excruciating pain in order to feel in control, while a third might not particularly care about the question of being in control altogether as she feels that part of birth is letting go of control.

A lot of women believe scheduling an elective cesarean means they have more control of what is going on with the birth of their child.

Then, as medicine imploded... err, I mean «evolved»... the right of women to have control of their birth began to be stripped away to what we have today which is not good for ANYBODY (other than perhaps a billfold or two).

While I have not heard a story quite as traumatic as yours (not to say it has not happened, by any means), the stories I have heard have often distressed ms greatly for the lack of respect and control the women seem to have, both over their birthing and over their babies.

All the woman - centered, non-active management means of preventing unnecessary cesarean section rates listed above do not involve increasing trends to invasive, technological methods of pain control during labor.

An epidural was the only means of pain control available to the women.

The mandate means that insurance companies have to pay for preventative services, including birth control, in full, with no co-payments and that the cost of contraceptives does not count towards the plan's annual deductible, regardless of what level of plan the woman has.

Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.

A recent trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital suggests that the anticonvulsant Topamax, currently used to treat everything from migraines to obesity, may offer a more effective means of controlling the compulsion.

Finally, I'm generalising here, but women tend to have a more emotional relationship with food and control compared to men, which means they are best avoiding any kind of eating pattern that involves restriction.

Design: A total of 130 sarcopenic elderly people (53 men and 77 women; mean age: 80.3 y) participated in a 12 - wk randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled supplementation trial.

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy is effective for prolapses in stages 1 and 2 and its focus is the relief of pressure by means of hypopressive abdominal exercises, and the improvement of tone and endurance of the pelvic floor muscles to help maintain the position of the organs in the pelvis (1: Efficacy of pelvic floor muscle training and hypopressive exercises for treating pelvic organ prolapse in women: randomized controlled trial).

Especially in regions where women may not always have the control over sexual encounters, the introduction of a cheap, self - applied ointment derived naturally from bananas may mean more protection and power to women whose family production preferences are too often undermined and ignored.

Being selective means you let him know that while you like him and enjoy being with him, you are also a woman with options who is in control of what happens to her.

Enter Siren, a dating app... core principle that «women needed to control visibility,» Lee said, meaning the users can give clear signals that they're actually interested and comfortable talking to the suitor of their choice.

In a world where women are controlled by means of a band on their wrists limiting them to 100 words a day, no longer allowed to work and urged to take become «pure» in the new national religion, Dr. Jean McClelland is struggling to adapt to her new life.

So You've Been Publicly Shamed By Jon Ronson Riverhead • $ 16 • ISBN 9781594634017 Ronson's examination of public shaming as a means of social control — from a writer shunned after being caught in the act of plagiarism to a woman forced into hiding over a single tweet — was named a best book of 2015 by the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

As a means of psychological control, nearly three - fourths of pet - owning women who entered shelters report that their abuser has either injured or killed their pet or threatened to do so.

so the person who leaves his country with all the money and weapons and technology support he can get from the planet and invade other people living in peace in their towns and villages, and start shooting them, air raiding them, bombing them, controlling them, prison theme, torture them till death, treat them like animals, use chemical weapons, searches in people homes for freedom fighters and scare the women and children and do every other mean act to stable their bases and control in that country is not terrorist but who is picking up an AKA 47 to free his land from the occupiers and protect his family and his way of living and his beliefs and kill those who came to kill and steal everything is a terrorist??

I'm willing to tolerate the occasionally strange combat physics and story - crunch at the end of the game if it means I can play a game set inside one of the ubiquitous 80s metal album cover art landscapes (complete with women in leather riding giant bears with lightning and lava in the background) and if I can control an army of literal Headbangers as I fly above the battlefield on demonic wings, swooping down occasionally to play a sweet - ass guitar solo to inspire my men and (again, literally) melt faces with my riffs.

This is by no means a complete list of the men and women who worked on Star Control II.

Alternately, feminists who support at least part of the sex industry argue that it can be a medium of feminist expression and a means for women to take control of their sexuality.

We support gender equality as a means of empowering women to taking control of their own fertility and stabilising population size.

Although the mean PPVT - R scores were very low, correlational analyses indicated that this test was valid for this sample in relation to maternal education, ego maturity, depression, and the HOME.49 The mean for the total HOME scores was similar to other lower SES samples assessed at 12 months in North Carolina, Texas, and Arkansas.50 Although the majority (80.2 %) of the women were classified as minimally (scores of 0 — 9) or mildly (10 — 16) depressed, 17.5 % were moderately depressed (17 — 29), and 2.0 % severely depressed (30 or higher), proportions comparable to the incidence of depression in the control group of another low SES sample.51

«This common sense decision means that millions of women, who would otherwise pay $ 15 to $ 50 a month, will have access to affordable birth control, helping them save hundreds of dollars each year.»

The concern for some low - and middle - income women is that any government funding cuts to Planned Parenthood will mean access to some forms of birth control will be cut off.

The birth increase coincided with a 36 - percent drop in claims for long - acting contraceptives, including implants and intrauterine devices — meaning significantly fewer women started using what gynecologists consider the most effective form of birth control.

Title X is meant to ensure that every person — regardless of where they live, how much money they make, their background, or whether or not they have health insurance — has access to basic, preventive reproductive health care, such as birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and well - woman exams.

Although research findings on prevalence are inconclusive, they generally find that women and men report similar levels of violence when the contexts, motives and consequences are not considered.6 When they are considered, studies assessing IPV perpetrated by men compared to women often report gender differences regarding the types of violence, reasons for the violence, context in which the violence occurs and consequences of the violence.6, 7 For example, studies assessing differences in IPV find men's violence against women to be more severe, threatening and controlling8 — 10 and involve longer - lasting victimisation, fear of bodily injury or death, more injuries and more adverse health effects.5, 11, 12 It has also been found that women tend to use physical violence out of anger, not being able to get the partner's attention or in self - defence and retaliation, 11 whereas men often use it as a means to exercise coercive control.13, 14

Both of these conditions are often treated with hormonal birth control, which means these women would be hit the hardest by attacks on access to birth control.

And because there simply isn't a network of health - care providers capable of taking over this job if Planned Parenthood were denied funding, this means hundreds of thousands of women, if not millions, would over time lose access to birth control.