Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication and Media

Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication and Media

Representation of Violence against Women in War Case study: Women with Gunpowder Earrings Documentary

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Samaa Naissi 1
Zahra Mirhosseini 2
ءMohsen Badre 3
1 M. A. student in Women and Family Studies, faculty of social sciences and economics, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of women and family studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author)
3 Assistant Professor, Department of women and family studies , Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/jiscm.2023.409429.1550
Abstract
This article examines the violence against women in war based on the narrative depicted in the documentary film "Women with Gunpowder Earrings", with the aim of identifying how sexual violence against women is depicted and represented, as well as identifying the vulnerable groups of women in war with the qualitative content analysis method. The method of data analysis is such that the women shown in this documentary were divided into three groups of domestic ISIS women and foreign ISIS women who often supported ISIS, and the third group was Kojo women, then the narratives of these three groups of women were divided into three groups. Various tables were compiled and signs and codes were extracted from their statements based on the central concept of war and women, then analysis was done based on these signs. The results of the research showed that the torture of women by their children, such as illness or injury or the death of children, as well as sexual violence and rape of women and girls, verbal violence and insults, deceiving women to accompany them in the war, including it is the violence that was depicted in this documentary. In this research, it was shown that women endure double violence due to rape and torture of their children, which made them passive victims in the war.
Keywords
representation
sexual violence
War
documentary
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