WS100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Grammatical Gender, Prenatal Care, Rape Myth
28 Jan 2018
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Overall, women are less likely to be victimized by a crime than men. Men or more likely to be victims of violent crime. 78% of rapes against women are by ppl they know, 62% of own who are victims of aggravated assault were abused by someone they know, most murdered women (64%) are killed by a family member or intimate partner. Women"s fear of sexual victimization as well as gender socialization creates a generalized fear of crime in women. Fear of rape=mechanism to socially ctrl women. Fear of crime perpetuates stereotypes of women as powerless and vulnerable. Esther madriz; women are cottoned in an invisible prison . Only 1 in 4 rapes show up in statistics (unreported, and don"t include rapes ending in death) Rape myth s; socially constructed misconceptions about sexual assault that blame the victims of sexual assault for their victimization and justify male sexual aggression against women. Makor cause of the underreporting of rape.
