WGST 3812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wgst, Class Discrimination, Patricia Pearson

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 3812
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Wgst 3812 setting the stage: defining the unruly (defining criminality) *all content belongs to lori a. stinson & where cited in lecture slides* Erring females, fallen women: terms as censure, to keep female sexuality in check, for her own good, perpetually problematic female body (carol smart) in body, mind or character, implies opposite chaste, virtuous femininity as norm. Joanne minaker examines moral & social regulation of women & girls: history of the toronto industrial refuge, perceptions of these women by founders, police, court, etc. dictated their experience in facility, reproducing gendered, classist & racialized social order. Minaker (2014) 83-85 founders of the toronto industrial refuge. Patricia pearson (1997) when she was bad: violent women and the myth of innocence, women can be just as violent & nasty as men (compared to actual incidence) Feminist criminologists challenged research, undertook new research (data, methodologies) to better understand women"s violence. Bureau of justice statistics: homicide offending by gender (*graph in lecture slide*)