SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Liberal Feminism, Antisexualism, Canada Women'S National Soccer Team
8 Aug 2013
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Invalidating women"s experiences: kelly and radford (1996): women often downplay abusive situations because the alternative of taking action may be seen as even more undesirable. Institutional support for the sexualization of female crime radical feminist. Sick role - used to explain women who kill their children. When accused of crime, females are more likely than males to get a clinical evaluation. Men who commit serious crimes of violence are more likely to be seen by psychiatrists as legally and morally guilty and deserving of lengthy prison terms (allen 1987). Female offenders, on the other hand, are transformed into victims who lack moral culpability. > men who kill are sent to jail; women who kill are sent for psychiatric care; assumed all women are nurturing mothers, so if they kill, they are seen as abnormal and must be fixed (rehabilitated) Institutional response by police and other agencies - victimize women:
