WGS160Y1 Lecture : Gender & Violence Lecture
8 Feb 2011
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N historical anecdotes tell us violence against women has a long history and that it is not. In medieval times a husbands duty to punish his wife contemporary, structural violence, built into our institution. N key themes: to understand violence we have to do much more than think about gender relation and patriarchy to understand gender violence. N women of colour treated less fairly, men of colour more likely to be charged than white men for abuse. N unsafe for women of colour to report violence in marriage because of racism, complex dynamic. N reasons that women of colour might be less likely to report violencelanguage, financial, Justice system makes it difficult for coloured women to report incidents of abuse sponsored, isolated, not accessible service, no knowledge of rights. N reena virk: murdered bullied7l kl l zsuffered racism, taken up as act of girl violence, epidemic in girl violence.
