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Podcast: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Antonella Vitale, The Sicilian Practice of Fuitina
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:21:23
Publish Date: 2016-05-27 01:05:13
Description:

The central tenet of today's women's movement is equality--in wages, treatment, opportunity. But what about in love and sex? Antonella Vitale is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and she is studying the practice known as fuitina, a Sicilian term used to describe the kidnapping of a woman for the purpose of rape or elopement--a practice that continues to this day, worldwide. The bottom line? It's complicated.
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