FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Rape Culture, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Victim Blaming

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Kathryn Trevenen

Document Summary

Fem2110 : what i love about being queer, guest lecture: hayley crooks. Look at how the purity myth informs everyday discourses of rape culture. Key terms and concepts (sexual violence, rape culture) Toward an intersectional analysis of rape culture: racism and fat phobia. Sexual violence: is a broad term that describes any violence, physical, psychological, carried out through sexual means or by targeting sexuality. The violence takes different forms including sexual abuse, rape, incest, childhood sexual abuse and rape during armed conflict. It also includes sexual harassment, stalking, indecent or sexualized exposure, degrading, sexual imagery, cyber harassment, trafficking and sexual exploitation. Slut shaming: the act of criticizing a girl or woman for her real or presumed sexual activity, or for behaving in ways that someone thinks are associated with her real or presumed sexual activity. Shaming women"s sexuality based on ideas of purity .