CCJ 3014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Marxist Feminism, Postmodern Feminism, Penis Envy
24 Jul 2018
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Feminisim is a way of seeing the world: Consequences of sexism and unequal gender-based power distribution have affected fundamental aspects of social roles and personal experiences. Assumption that crime resulted from individual choices and women were conceptualized as freely choosing to act. Theoretical and research attention directed toward determining the differences between criminal and noncriminal women. Female criminality was described as an inherent tendency of women who had not developed properly into feminine women with moral refinement. Women and their sex organs were inferior, they had and inferiority complex (penis envy), they were irrational and men were rational. Women who commit crimes do so because they want to be like men, to be normal they had to adjust to housewife expectations. Women were inherently deceitful based on physiological reasons, that is how they commit undetectable crimes. When they were caught they were treated differently (chivalry) In the 1960s and 1970s, women showed an.
