[SOC263H5] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (16 pages long)
Document Summary
Traditional thoughts of gender of deviance tend to be created out of masculinity. Women were a side note that happened to be there, not a lot of them, not a lot of push into taking into consideration the female experience. The need to consider that women are a varied group. There is more of a difference between women than men and women. They were privileging white heterosexual women, without taking into consideration that race intersects with class. Critique feminist criminology for not taking into consideration the diversity amongst the female population. Need to look away from biological sex and look towards seeing gender as a social construct. Want to look at experience of real women (every day experience of women struggling, not just women in power). Movement towards considering race-class-gender: 3 levels of inequality that women have to deal with. Disentangling the three becomes impossible (intersection, not additive.
