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ISSN Print: 2394-7500, ISSN Online: 2394-5869, CODEN: IJARPF

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Vol. 5, Issue 4, Part D (2019)

Witch hunting a gendercide tool to subordinate women

Witch hunting a gendercide tool to subordinate women

Author(s)
Priyanka Bharadwaj
Abstract
Violence against women is a cultural practice. Witch hunting is a gendercide tool, used by the members of the patriarchal society to impair and subjugate women. It is constructed as primarily originating in evil practices, irrationality and superstition. Witch hunting is a gender attributed violence as majority of witch killing, women are the victims. It is largely associated with vigilantism, personal disputes, land grabbing, sexual advances, jealousy etc. it is a systematic violence against women whereby the whole community sanctioned punishment against a person being accused of practicing witch craft. It is a disturbing phenomenon prevalent in various parts of India. It is a brutal practice of alleging an individual particularly women of practicing witchcraft. Witch Craft is often associated with the infliction of harm on people or property through exercise of supernatural powers reinforced by the presence of superstition and belief. In the contemporary societies, the problem of witch hunting remains to be most perplexing problem, which has raised a great fervour in the media. Witch hunting is an orthodox characterizing rural societies and serious human right violation, which calls for an urgency to work out a strategy to provide protection and justice to victims and their family as well. Keeping in view the hazardous impact of witch hunting and concern regarding the subordinate status of women, the study discussed on why women are mostly targeted as ‘witch’ and also reflects as how women, in the patriarchal society are subjugated to subordinate role in relation to men. The present paper further attempt to analyses the phenomenon of witch hunting in the context of violence against women originating at different stratums such as structural, cultural and individual. The paper also discussed at length as how through witch hunting- a gendered attribute violence against women have played a major role in the present day treatment of women and how it has helped in establishing women’s subordination and served to continue to keep women subjugate in India. And in the conclusion part, the paper discussed about the laws and act with regard to witch hunting in brief
Pages: 218-221  |  791 Views  103 Downloads
How to cite this article:
Priyanka Bharadwaj. Witch hunting a gendercide tool to subordinate women. Int J Appl Res 2019;5(4):218-221.
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