CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Brothel, Indictable Offence, Summary Offence
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Lecture overview: brief recap, feminist criminology in practice, case study: prostitution. Prostitution is quintessential female crime stigma attached to prostitution. Criminal woman as doubly deviant not only is she transgressing the law, but the conventional norms of femininity that suggest that women ought to be law abiding but sexually passive. Nymphomania mental disorder that is only applied to women who have violated the expectations associated with femininity. 1800s they were demanding access to education, marrying later in life, having fewer children. Sign of moral delinquency leading you to a dark path where you can suffer from insanity or go into prostitution in order to satisfy their out of control sexual desires. Second-wave feminism don"t all see prostitution in the same way. Prostitution only made possible in patriarchal and capitalist society argue that prostitution wouldn"t exist if we were not living in a cap society that treats the bodies of working class as commodities that can be bought and sold.
