WOMS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Femininity, Counterpoint, Uniform Crime Reports

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS240
• Professor: marielaberge

Document Summary

Masculinity & femininity, why do we study gender violence? i. ii. It appears to be escalating significant social issue. If it is socially created, it can be socially changed: data on gender violence i. ii. iii. The violence against women act (vawa: difference between sex and gender i. ii. Gender: how people identify themselves social and cultural, not biological: dualistic gender systems: clearly marked boundaries of masculinity and. Institutional gender systems institutions act in defined patterns of behavior with specific gender practices, ideologies and distribution of power: both experience an asymmetrical distribution of power, purpose of gender violence i. ii. iii. Gender relations are not always in conflict, but conflict is often visible. The purpose of gender violence is to preserve the asymmetrical gender system of power. Based in the power of the individual and power of the institution: difficulties in challenging gender violence i.