SOCI 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Domestic Violence, Unit, Male Privilege
5 Nov 2016
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+ the way that acts are interpreted through gendered norms + the responses that particular acts entail from other social institutions. Gbv: any kind of harm (physical, sexual, emotional, financial_ perpetrated against an individual based on their gender identity or gender performance. Common forms: domestic abuse, sexual assault, gender-based access to resources (eg: jobs. This is structural), gender-based recruitment to life threatening kinds of work (military) . Takeaway points: political economic processes impact the extent (how many people are effected), level (how severe), and character (the forms) of gendered violence. Relationship between political economy and gender violence is complex and houses multiple possibilities. But social, political, and economic conditions do effect who is vulnerable and how they are vulnerable: allegations of gender-based violence are used to characterise certain countries, peoples, and territories as less developed . These allegations may have little to do with what is actually going on. They are often politically motivated: help rationalise intervention and imperial conquest.
