WS100 Lecture 9: WS100 - lecture 9
22 Jan 2018
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Rape culture: coined by feminists in us in 1970s to highlight ways in which society blamed victims of sexual assault and normalized male sexual violence. It is a culture that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women. It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. Includes jokes, tv, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable. In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable. What are reproductive rights: access to safe and legal abortions, access to contraceptives, right to refuse sex (to decide what happens with your body, right to form consent. Based on providing reproductive options and allowing a woman to make a. Reproductive rights are human rights guaranteed by the state choice.
