CRM 2307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Slut, Men Only, Hijab

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2307
• Professor: Christine Bruckert

Document Summary

Themes: street harassment is a useful sensitizing device and frames it in a fact that comes from second wave feminism, victim blaming, responsibilization, nature of violence, activity of violence, intersections and interlocking systems of oppression. Intrusions one is uninvited: are pervasive and every women face it, its normalized and just the way it is, street harassment is a useful sensitizing device and frames it in a fact that comes from second wave feminism. Women start to move off farms and into cities: women start to inhabit public space. Start to have a problematic figure called a masher: a masher is a white man, who loafs around and approaches respectable women, this becomes a thing in the (cid:883)9(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:495)s. Most of the articles at the time focused on what women did and the umbrella became a weapon of choice in canada and it was celebrated.