FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rape Culture, Weight Loss, Neoliberalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

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It(cid:495)s good to lose weight, you look healthy instead: stop policing women(cid:495)s bodies. Harding) dye, skin-bleaching; plastic surgery) (cid:494)(cid:495)fat(cid:495)(cid:495) women are told: diet. Post-war, fuller figure is attractive, top gun, 90210. Carrie a. rentschler. (cid:494)(cid:495)rape culture & the feminist politics of social media(cid:495)(cid:495) in on-line misogyny: steubenville trial (march, 2013) as one of many examples of how social media is implicated. Not biological, can be changed by changing social norms and ways we think about rape: we turn women into less than nothing when we objectify them. Rentschler cont(cid:495)d: recent study: girls and young women see their cellphones as (cid:494)(cid:495)essential devices of personal safety(cid:495)(cid:495) vs pepper spray of whistles. In context of increasing internet misogyny, ability to offer online support is politically important recording, redistributing. Criaw: violence against women and girls: half of all canadian women have survived at least 1 incident of sexual or physical violence.