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Women - Violence against

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Images about Women - Violence against

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  • The sergeant Louis Gillet discovers a woman who had been tied to a tree by brigands and fights with the brigands to free her. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after P.A. Wille.
  • Prostitution : stop aux violences : action de santé communautaire en milieu prostitutionnel / ARAP Rubis.
  • A man stabbing a woman with a stiletto. Oil painting, 18--.
  • A man stabbing a woman with a stiletto. Oil painting, 18--.
  • An episode in 'Rookwood', a novel by W. Harrison Ainsworth: Luke Bradley, who is threatening Eleanor Mowbray with a dagger, is himself threatened by Ranulph Rookwood with a sword, but Ranulph is suddenly restrained by Dick Turpin. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after J. Cawse, 1837.
  • Prostitution : stop aux violences : action de santé communautaire en milieu prostitutionnel / ARAP Rubis.
  • A man holding an oil lamp and a dagger is standing next to a woman asleep in a canopied bed; Gothic window in the background. Coloured mezzotint, ca. 1800.
  • Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.
  • A sailor threatening a young woman with a sword on board of a ship. Wood engraving by J.J..

Works from the collections

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    Femicide zine. Issue 4 / by Imarni.

    | Imarni | Date: 2022
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    A man holding an oil lamp and a dagger is standing next to a woman asleep in a canopied bed; Gothic window in the background. Coloured mezzotint, ca. 1800.

    | Date: 1800 | Reference: 573800i
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    • Online

    An episode in 'Rookwood', a novel by W. Harrison Ainsworth: Luke Bradley, who is threatening Eleanor Mowbray with a dagger, is himself threatened by Ranulph Rookwood with a sword, but Ranulph is suddenly restrained by Dick Turpin. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after J. Cawse, 1837.

    | John Cawse | Date: 1837 | Reference: 42887i
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    Five men beating three women with sticks in Ethiopia. Wood engraving by É. Bayard after G. Lejean, 1867.

    | Date: 1870-1879 | Reference: 580442i
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    Against my will : defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality / editor: Richard Kollodge.

    | Date: 2020
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Gender-Based Violence

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