SOCIOL 4UU3 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 5: Patricia Hill Collins, Tarana Burke, Sexual Politics
4 Mar 2019
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Sociol 4uu3 - global family and sexual politics. Week 5 gender based violence and the me too movement. This week"s topic focusing on the sexual politics regarding gender-based violence (gbv) and the me too movement. Gbv is a human rights violation rooted in gender inequality where violence is directed against a person because of their gender. Tarana burke aims to support survivors of sexual violence and their allies to build an online community for survivors to connect and receive resources. This week we were assigned another chapter by patricia hill collins and an article from. In this chapter, patricia hill collins eloquently presents the case of lynching and rape as tools of social control - with lynching being a public display of racism and rape being a private form of sexism. A take away that was not very clear to me but i hope to discuss in class is.
