HREQ 1920 Chapter Notes -White Ribbon Campaign, The White Ribbon, Gay Bashing

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1920
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

Readings: viviane k. namaste, genderbashing: sexuality, gender, and the regulation of. Michael kaufman, the white ribbon campaign: involving men and boys in ending global. Heterosexual dominate violence on homosexual and biosexual. White ribbon campaigns calls on men to end violence against women. Men need to challenge other men to end violence against women and break cycle. Need to get men involved to acknowledge their personal response. Need to hold men responsible for their violence. Name the violence: verbal, physical, sexual, emotional, mental. Patriarchal power: violence has helped to confer on men as a group, a set of privileges and the exercise of power. Sense of entitlement or privilege, men think they have a right to a womens body, discipline their children harshly. Inequality of power between sexes leads to this kinda of violence against women. Permission: we permit this in our society to happen. Violence is a norm in our culture.