When writing about women victimization, it is easy to slide into reproof. The society attitude, media, and the women self-attitude makes the pressure on women and can easily be overblamed for issues related to gender inequality. However, the fact that it is little or nothing is done with respect to violence done to women still remains acute because their situation is more than serious: the scopes of woman being neglected and infanticide and undergoing sexual harassment are tremendous, especially in the Third World Countries. Thus, this paper is to deal with the issues of women involvement into sexual harassment and assaults. This paper is to identify the detail of why women are so easy victims of the sexual assault and why things remain the same for years despite the fact that various studies and programs were implemented to solve this problem.
Relatively recently, 40 years ago, it was believed that women are taking the role of eternal victim, perceive it to be quite comfortable, and even try using this role. There is another opinion going a little further: women like to be victims, and there is no such notion as rape or sexual assault since females are meant to be used for sex. These views were biased clearance of the fact that women in the sexual violence (as part of gender-based violence) are really adapted to the role of victim; they rationalize it rejecting even the idea of ??resistance. Thus, from the very beginning, the idea of formation of female subjectivity in terms of fear for their lives and safety, that is under the influence of a constant unspoken threat of sexual violence – for physical and verbal violence against girls and women, is always sexualized are formed.
The brightest example of what effect sexual violence has on a woman is rape. For example, as a student, Alice Sebold aged eighteen was beaten and raped. She remembers every tiny detail about her changing world. Her life was divided into before and after, but she handled it. She was able to get out of this state, to learn to live again. However, despite this all finished well, the mental trauma remains. Alice describes every single minute of her rape in the book called Lucky.
Alice Sebold is a famous writer known by her bestseller The Lovely Bones. However, her first book was the memoirs of her being raped at the age of eighteen. Lucky is not simply a story of a sexual abuse but the story of the further life. As Alice says in the book, the rape is simply a beginning; the rest of troubles begins after. This story is one of the best examples of how women are treated in the society and how women are victimized. In addition, it is the story of recovery and self-acceptance, which is very important for women in the modern society.
Alice passed through all steps of the society denial as a rape victim: the denial of her father who thought it was her fault, the denial of the justice system, which failed to find the rapist, with the great jury who claimed that she should have known about the danger of being alone in the park. This proves that rape is not perceived as a serious crime and to find justice in such cases, the victim herself should investigate the case and be fully involved in the process. Only Alices perseverance and insistence of seeing Gregory (the rapist) in jail helped her.
In the book Lucky, Alice states that she bears in mind and retains the instants leading up to her rape, the actual rape, and the moments and occurrences afterwards distinctly. In fact, she is notified that the rapist will murder her if she cries out, but she does this thing at any rate. However, her rapist beats her down and explains her he has a knife with himself. He utilizes her long hair in order to hold on her. The rapist slams her and knocks her head onto the ground, and she shortly faints. Alice acknowledges that she awakes gazing into the eyes of the rapist who has the possibility and actual power to murder her and bequests herself to him understanding that she is about to die. She does anything the rapist orders her to do despite the fact that she proceeds to assure him that she is a maiden and to beseech for both her existence and her chastity.
