ARTSSCI 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Opportunism, Ethnic Cleansing, Hegemonic Masculinity
6 Dec 2016
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What is gender-based violence (gbv): profoundly under-theorized (jakobson 2014) Violence that is targeted at women or men because of their sex and/or their socially constructed gender roles. (icc women) Often conflated with violence against women (vaw) Gbv is directed at women and serves to support patriarchal dominance. But does this discursive slippage itself perpetuate problematic gender hierarchies? (grey. Multiple patterns operative at any given time (connell) Hegemonic masculinity: the most honoured pattern in a given time/place; difficult to achieve in practice. Seen as fundamental to defining hegemonic masculinities in many contexts. Valorization of militarized response + maintenance of dominance. Gbv in war/conflict (particularly sexual violence) is a long-standing, if only recently recognized, issue. (un stop rape now video) Gender-based violence as war strategy : feminization of the enemy, undercutting protector masculinity , ethnic cleansing. Impossible masculinities and sexual violence in the drc: ex.
