CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Standpoint (Magazine), Marxist Feminism
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Feminist criminology is also focused power as well as social and economic resource distribution but with emphasis on sexist orientations. Emerged in the 60s and the 70s as the second wave of feminism; the first wave was at the end of. Draws attention to who holds and controls power in society and the extent to which such control undermines the fullness of one(cid:495)s being. Its radical phase made the second wave synonymous with the women(cid:495)s liberation movement, Second wave outlined the history of structural oppression and crimes against women which sought major transformation in the social sphere the 19th century. Sex (cid:523)male/female(cid:524) is essentially a classification of one(cid:495)s biology as differentiated by one(cid:495)s genitals. Gender is learned culturally e. g. , dress, gestures, mannerisms, etc. However it defines quite a bit in social life. Gender (masculine/feminine) is said to be a social construct. It can be argued then that gender is not something natural but encultrated: sex vs.
