Women's Studies 2270A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Marital Rape, Date Rape, Male Privilege
13 Feb 2018
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Women"s first step as lawmakers = to define and name the problems women face as women; to talk and listen and have confidence in what women say . Next steps: giving names to previously undefined phenomena (i. e. sexual harassment, domestic violence, etc. Main theme of this paper: the ways in which women have been excluded from the lawmaking process. Legally impossible for a husband to rape his wife until 1982: example of law which served male interest and substituted male desire for female autonomy by excluding women from basic guarantees (common) 2 components of the accurate but incomplete formulation of women"s social position (that they are a disadvantaged group excluded by those who have captured power): 1. Inequality is a process, not a fact ; inequality is an ongoing event rather than a natural state reinforced: women"s secondary social position is being actively created and repeatedly, 2. Personal lives lead into the professional: gender roles.
