GWST 4502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexual Selection, Femininity, Social Forces

• School: York University
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 4502
• Professor: Lisa Rosenberg

Document Summary

For next tuesday come with my own example of how violence against women is socially constructed. Chapter 1 and 2 from johnson and dawson. How through the readings is male violence defined: human rights definitions, canadian definition is to broadly defined which allows for loop holes unclear guidelines around drinking and consent, spousal abuse (grey areas) Consider multiple forms of male violence against women (what are you exposed to: women in the military, sex workers, male order bride"s. Who is most at risk: women of color, indigenous women, migrant women, disabled women, trans women, sex workers, women living in poverty, however it is intersectional allowing some women to be more vulnerable than others. What is the role of the women"s movement: rape crisis centers, battered women shelters, women"s equality, respond to sexual assault and intimate partner violence (pg 9) o.