WOMS240 Lecture 3: February 10 Notes
10 Feb 2017
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Sheffield argues sexual terrorism the right of men to control the female body is the cornerstone of the patriarchy. Violence and the fear of violence serve to terrorize females and to maintain the patriarchal definition of woman"s place. Definition of terrorism is those acts which aim to frighten, and by frightening, to. Sexual terrorism that system by which males frighten and by frightening control and dominate and control dominate women. Example in laundromat: scared of the idea that she"s alone in the laundromat and its dark, keeps walking back and forth to the car doesn"t stay in the laundromat. Five components to sexual terrorism: ideology. An integrated set of beliefs about the world that explains the way things are and provide a vision about how things should be. Patriarchy rule of the fathers is the ideological foundation of our society which she argues is the rationale for sexual terrorism: propaganda.
