Patriarchal Oppression: Gender-Based Violence In The 1990s

Chapter one has evidenced that research into domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation made clear distinctions within the 1990s, (Johnson, & Ferraro, 2000). However, during the 1890s an abolitionism movement ‘white slave traffic’ swept through the western industrialised countries namely Britain, which was strongly endorsed globally by feminists, (De Vries, 2008); the movement focused predominately on international trafficking, paying attention to patriarchal oppression, (Summers, 2006). Simultaneously the research post 1990 focuses on ‘patriarchal oppression’ through defining ‘gender-based violence’ within both global and domestic legislation. Throughout the research post 1990s there is a continued emphasis of the ‘control’