WGS373H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Inquiry, Intersectionality, Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension
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Cla s s 2: ge n d e r a n d vio le n c e. To strengthen a critical thinking lens, based in intersectional feminist critical inquiry; To rethink, unpack, and challenge structures of violence, both as they emerge in the lives of individuals and through institutional systems; To invest in counter-narratives and non-hegemonic ways of seeing, experiencing, surviving, and resisting violence. Harm - physical or psychological - intended or unintended - enacted upon another person. Violence is behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage or kill someone or something - dictionary. Individualized versus structual/institionalized (social, cultural, and economic inequalities) Gender-based violence against women shall mean violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects disproportionately. Eu d finitions - because of their gender/race/ability/sex. Violence is constituted through and seeks to reinforce
