SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Feminist School Of Criminology, Jim Crow Laws, Contemporary Slavery
Document Summary
Suggesting the feminism and criminology courses and journals are stagnant. We need to move beyond this idea that we need to focus on women for it to be feminist criminology. That there is concern that we are adding women to the mix and that is alluding women into criminology. Radical feminist and liberal feminist have different views, so while they are both feminist they come at the perspectives with different questions. Balfour and her focus on what can be done she seemed mostly concerned with patriarchy and how it is very manifested in the cjs. In trying to consider the ideas around embodiment help reveal the practices, pre-natal screening= become a space for policing: pregnancy is experienced in a specific way and then we have these tests in terms of regulating pregnancy. Women are often presented as the objects of study. Looks at the female body as an object.