WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wgst, Ableism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: all

Document Summary

4 specific types of violence: direct, structural, cultural and psychological: direct violence: entails the use of intended and direct physical force by one actor against another of the impact of social structures, structural violence: comprises both intended and unintended violence as a result, cultural violence: is violence promoted through expressive and exploitative images, symbols, language, art and the media as well as through social practices and institutions such as family, church, school and legal systems, psychological violence: is violence of the psyche, emotional torture, degradation, What is gendered violence: feminist theorists increasingly questions the definitions, nature and causes of violence, what counts as violence, is socially constructed, has varied over time, and reflects patriarchal power relations, women"s specific experience"s of violence is often invisible to society, structures and interrelationships of multiple forms of violence is difficult to see because they seem normal.