SOSC 1502 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intersectionality, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Clean House
18 Oct 2013
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Thesis: the expression nation-state camouflages the only partial overlap between the boundaries of the hegemonic national collectivity and the settled residents or even citizens of the state. Clear cut definition of who belongs and who doesn"t belong to the nation. Exclusion of women primary premise of the article. Jan jindy pettman, women, gender and the state (g&k p. 174-181) Thesis: gendered and feminist analyses reveal that the state is in almost all cases male dominated and is in different ways a masculine construct. Gender racial violence and spatialized justice: the murder of pamela george . Thesis: a number of factors contributed to masking the violence of the two accused and thus diminishing their culpability and legal responsibility for the death of pamela george. I race the argument made by feminist scholars that women working as prostitutes are considered in law to have consented to whatever violence is visited upon them.
