CRIM 2416 Lecture Notes - Against Our Will, Sexual Assault, Structural Functionalism
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Wrote the criminality of women in 1950. Women inherently deceitful because of their anatomy. Men needed to achieve an erection in order to fulfill their sexual roles, whereas women could fake it. Because women learned to be deceitful, they could engage in crimes like shoplifting or theft from an employer and not be caught. Women committed many crimes that went undetected, because their ability to be deceitful: under represented in criminal statistics because they know how to get away with it and anatomical differences. Emerging interest in feminist studies in sociology a rejection of structural functionalist perspective. Structural functionalists saw gender-based division of labour in family as being complementary and contributing to social solidarity. Men perform instrumental functions in the workplace, and women perform expressive functions in the home by staying at home, cleaning house, bearing children, doing dishes, shopping, making food, making beds, doing everything else.
