WGS337H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity, Racialization
7 Feb 2015
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Violence is not only gendered: race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity and other social locations interact and affect the risks, impacts and social responses to forms of gendered violence. Violence is a constitutive element of poverty, colonialism, imperialism, civil wars, policies and practices that create, promote and sustain male/female binaries, racism and nationalism. The native women"s association documented cases of aboriginal women who were missing and murdered. The failure of the government to act quickly was noted as the result of the racialization of the population- primarily aboriginal, poor and prostitutes. This course will focus on feminist theories to engage the discussions on gendered violence. Concepts such as patriarchy will figure in our discussions. Patriarchy a concept developed by radical feminists is understood as the root of all forms of inequality. Patriarchy is understood as a system where men dominate women as a group. This is facilitated by a system of power relations that.
