GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: You Can Play, Heterosexuality, Sexual Assault

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

Different meanings over time, region and culture. Values and beliefs are of people who hold power & authority. Dominant expectations of sexual conduct and gender relations. How we respond to violence speaks to societies views. Lens of heterosexuality and marriage violence that happened in context of home, understood as preserved and protected at all costs. Domestic violence/sexually courts and police and community always made sure family relationship was prioritized: a private issue, doctrine of marital unity: one legal identity husband the legal head of household. Concept, which states that when two people, man and women become husband and wife, they become one. Ii feminist views on violence: power and control activism, and legal policy changes. Violence was an expression of men societal power. Feminists (socialists) cultural violence made even worse by economic dependence, dependent on people with power. Public issue rather than private- rooted in a systemic issue (cid:862)perso(cid:374)al is politi(cid:272)al(cid:863: gendered cultures of violence.