article_snippet.sent: Women are indispensable for establishing a functioning community, even one whose laws are brutally repressive.
article_snippet.sent: Even if women are viewed as the property of men, women are still needed, not just for cooking, cleaning and sex, but to keep the home and raise children; hence the methodical capture, assault and subjugation.
article_snippet.sent: As in previous conflicts, women are spoils of war and rape is a weapon of war.
article_snippet.sent: The women are not simply abused and discarded.
article_snippet.sent: From Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, a modern town until ISIS conquered it last year, women say, "women have withheld all freedoms from us" and describe oppressive, fear-filled lives.
article_snippet.sent: And when it comes to women, a method is one that aims to control women as a way to establish the society women envision, one where some women say life is simply not worth living.
highlights_snippet.sent: Frida Ghitis says women want to enslave women, tie women to a long outdated view of how society should work .