WOMS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hegemonic Masculinity, Orgasm, Relative Deprivation

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

Document Summary

Socialization, other socialization arenas, workplace ii. iii. Religious institutions: all influence socialization into the culture we live in, the process of socialization is closely tied to our understanding of our culture and its value, so how does this relate to gender violence? i. Peggy sanday the socio-cultural context of rape : looks at how other researchers have tried to understand rape, first approach is through the social cultural context, rapists are acting out a social script that they have learned i. In societies where men are dominant and violent, it"s a way that inequalities in a social group are performed: second approach i. ii. iii. Children learn from parents appropriate forms of masculinity and femininity. She does not see a close correlation between parent/child relations and incidences of rape: third approach, male sexual repression will erupt in a form of violence ii.