SOCB22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Boxing Day Shooting, Innocent Victim, Michel Foucault
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Example: violence as pathology: causes you to ask certain questions, look for certain explanations for their violence, doesn"t look for connects to greater social structures. What does it occlude: lets us see lots of things, but sometimes not everything is explained equally. Interlocking systems approach: need to think about how gender, race, and class intersect. How is femininity portrayed here: damsel in distress. Needing to be saved by a man: white woman: soft, fragile, etc. How are they underpinned by ideas of black femininity and black masculinity: black femininity: strong, sexual, etc, black masculinity. Mammy: older black women who take care of white children, aunt jemima . Matriarch: takes care of her own family, emasculating, takes over, outside of respectability because they are too strong. Jezebel: from bell hooks, very sexualized, outside of respectability because they are too sexualized. Welfare mother: the woman who is promiscuous, having children,
