POL 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Structural Violence, Radical Feminism, Victim Support

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 501
• Professor: Karen Ruddy

Document Summary

1: feminist appellation (radical feminist, describing it, not analysis) Thesis: debatable claim (cannot be a topic, or statement or fact) Could argue one position is better than the other or take middle ground. *vickers: mainstream feminist approach (liberal and radical, dominant feminist perspectives) Reflecting radical feminists who were interested in politicizing the personal. Making the personal or what"s out of the private sphere and brining those into public discourse. Vickers says radical feminism sought to challenge the invisibility of violence against women in political science and public discourse. Political science say women"s experience of violence is something that"s thought of to happen in the private sphere. Political scientists are also interested in understanding when it is okay to go to war. Rules of combat, said if you start with the experiences of women, distinction between wars and peace, it doesn"t make sense. Women"s violence against men is always deemed as war .