SOC205H5 Lecture 7: Soc205 Lecture 7
Document Summary
Varieties of feminist thought: early feminist perspectives: liberal feminism: gender socialization as the cause of crime, marxist feminism: class and gender division of labor combine to determine the social position of women and men, radical feminism: crime is an expression of men"s need to control, socialist feminism: examines the connections between capitalism and patriarchy that leads men to crime and women to subordination (attempts to merge marxist and radical feminism) 1 in 3 women reported abuse or physical abuse by the age of 15: questioned theories and methods (generalizability problem, shift in discourse from sex to gender, highlighted violence against women (women as victims, women"s pathways to crime differ (misrepresentation of women"s offending, masculinity and gender studies, crime is a function or strain of poverty: then jails should be full of single parent mothers, huge rates of substance abuse among women impacts of post dramatic depression from substance.
