SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Human Rights Commission, Sentenced, Offender Profiling
Document Summary
Ge n d e re d p a th wa ys in to crim e. Feminist contribution to criminology: there are 5 elements of feminist thought that distinguish it from other types of social and political thought: Gender not a natural fact; socially constructed. Gender/gender relations order social life (world is hierarchal) Gender relations and ideas of masculinity and femininity are not symmetrical; (based on the idea of male superiority and dominance over women) System of knowledge reflects men"s view of natural and social world (biggest critique: theories tend to be created in the perspective of men) Women should be at the center of intellectual inquiry. Challenges for feminist criminology: they need to consider women and the variance of female experience. Responses to the challenges: greater consideration with real women experiences, movement toward considering race-class-gender; not additive but intersections of. They need to consider women and the variance of female experience (privileging white middle class heterosexual women)
