Women's Studies 2260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Victim Blaming

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2260
• Professor: Tugce Ellialti Kose

Document Summary

Most sexual assaults and rapes of women are committed by their husbands or boyfriends, relatives, or friends and acquaintances (quite contrary to the prevalent myth about rape that. The most likely victims of rape are young women, and of these, the most vulnerable to rape are young women of color and working-class women. About half of all rape victims are in the lowest third of income distribution. Estimates of the rates of sexual violence are difficult to make because more than half of all rapes are unreported so, numbers are often underestimates. Inequality theory argues that rape is a political issue and an outcome of power inequalities in society. Ideal victim myth works to discredit those who have deviated too far from it. In some ways, sexual assault reform has been successful in canada. Criminal code has addressed some myths that helped ensure fairer trials; addressed definitions. Still further revisions needed to criminal code.