WOMENST 1A03 Lecture : Women's Studies-Jan.25 "Women and Violence"
Document Summary
Different forms of violence, way of institutionalized violence and exists as part of social. What are common terms: vickers: domestic violence individual acts, mainstream discussions: acts committed against women by men, individual acts, model of victim-perpetrator: Evolutionary psychology theories: the idea that men are naturally more aggressive; Social learning theories: aggression as a learned behaviour through media, videogames, tv. etc: violence beyond gender lenses: beyond man vs. woman. Confines violence to a definition synonymous wih wife-beating, rape and sexual harassment (vickers) The creation of laws and public policy to have formal response to violence and rape. Pornography; consider in the realm of violence against women: bill c 127: 1989: changes made to the legal definition sex forced upon a woman within marriage. Under this definition men could not be raped. To change and improve conditions of victims of sexual assault;