SOC219H5 Chapter 1: Reading Note-McCaughey
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The fighting spirit women"s self-defense training and the discourse of sexed embodiment. gender & society, 12 (3), 277-300. Reading guide she considered some of the tensions in feminism regarding violence and the body, speci cally as these tensions occured to me during the course of my ethnographic study of women"s self-defense culture. Doing self-defense felt like selling out, concealing the display feminist of birds, manhattan changed. How did mccaughey"s research transform how she saw herself as a feminist activist (pg. According to mccaughey, how do feminists typically understand violence (pg. The body in feminist discourse is often constructed as the object of patriarchal violence (actual or symbolic), and violence has been construed as something that is variously impressive, diminishing, inappropriate, and masculinist. How did self-defense classes change mccaughey"s beliefs about the capacities of the female body (pg. What is the core argument of this article (see paragraph 1, pg. What methods did mccaughey use in her study (pg.
