SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Discovery Life, Masculinity, Slut
23 Oct 2015
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Virtuous women, like young girls, are unconsenting, virginal, rapable. Unvirtuous women, like wives and prostitutes, are consenting, whores, unrapable one day they cannot say yes, and the next day they cannot say no. Catharine mackinnon (1946-present: masculinities, femininities and sexual violence, clip from jackson katz"s ted talk . Mary is a battered women : discussion of john and mary . The way sexual violence is perpetuated against women and the focus of violence being away from the perpetrator but mostly towards the victim (women) (i. e. victim blaming) Situating women as victims is very problematic. Hegemonic masculinity: the one dominant masculinity that all men are to embody. Doing gender by men can also mean committing sexual assault against women. The problem of rape & sexual assault is about reclaiming power: overview of sexual assault in canada, reporting (and conviction) rates. Not all rape assaults are reported to the police because of not being taken seriously.
