SOC380H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sexual Assault, Nanny, Sex Education
Document Summary
Key findings on sexual violence: date/marital rape much more common than sexual assault by stranger, connections between culture, beliefs, and rates of sexual assault. Reading: peggy reeves sanday: rape-prone versus rape-free campus cultures (1996: evidence of rape-prone campus cultures: Male peer acceptance (hypersexualization of women/pornogoraphy; exaggerated heterosexism; getting women drunk for sex) Men participate in looking out for women. What can be done to change attitudes towards sexual violence: drawing attention to the double standard (informal education/advocacy, institutional and community support for survivors of sexual violence, taking it seriously in the courts, schools, workplaces (official/unofficial policies) Gendered nature, it"s not just any assault, it"s about gender and power. Shows that the level of assault can have hierarchies. Definitions: live-in caregiver program (lcp): a federally regulated program through which the majority of foreign caregivers come to canada. Mainly women who work as nannies or live-in caregivers. Part of the temporary foreign worker program in canada.
