CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cesare Lombroso, Second-Wave Feminism, Penis Envy
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The beginning of the first wave of feminist perspective in the us is located during the. The first wave of feminism is also associated with the abolition of slavery. The industrial revolution, coupled with the rise of capitalism, largely changed traditional family and village economies into factory production. There was a near destruction of what previously had been valued and necessary. Household partnership between spouses, their offspring, and extended households. Until 1960s and 1970s, most theories of female crime centered around the inherent nature of women (their individual psychological or physiological characteristics) Did not examine effects of the social structure, of the socialization process, or patriarchy and male dominance. Evolution accounts for the uneven development of groups. In the female offender, female criminality was described as an inherent tendency of women who had not developed properly into feminine women with moral refinement. Criminal women were more masculine than feminine.