Department
Women and Gender StudiesCourse Code
WGS160Y1Professor
June LarkinThis preview shows half of the first page. to view the full 3 pages of the document.
WGS: Gender and Violence
•Intersectionality and Gender Violence
•Violence, Colonialism and Genocide
•Individual and Structural Forms of violence
•Responses to Gender Violence
•Thomas fuller:
•In medieval times a husbands duty to punish his wife
•Historical anecdotes tell us violence against women has a long history and that it is not
contemporary, structural violence, built into our institution
•Key themes: to understand violence we have to do much more than think about gender relation
and patriarchy to understand gender violence
•Women of colour treated less fairly, men of colour more likely to be charged than white men for
abuse.
•Unsafe for women of colour to report violence in marriage because of racism, complex dynamic
•Justice system makes it difficult for coloured women to report incidents of abuse
•Reasons that women of colour might be less likely to report violencelanguage, financial,
sponsored, isolated, not accessible service, no knowledge of rights
•Reena Virk: murdered bullied, didn’t mention that she suffered racism, taken up as act of girl
violence, epidemic in girl violence.
•Ignored the fact that a man was involved, situates perpetrators as victims, no race analysis
•Racism was a factor because the girls burned a cigarette on her forehead trying to make the hindu
tradition of something on their forehead
•Did not target the source of the problem which was racism
•If an issue is addressed that people in public who consume the literature should respond
•Andrea smith’s article: talks about gender violence, takes about colonialism in cultural genocide
and their importance
•Stolen Sisters: indigenous women’s in Canada who go on missing, puts the stories of missing
women in political context
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