SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Catharine Mackinnon, John Henry Wigmore, Hegemonic Masculinity

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

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Virtuous women, like young girls, are unconsenting, virginal, rapable. Unvirtuous women, like wives and prostitutes, are (cid:272)onsenting, whores, unrapa(cid:271)le one da(cid:455) the(cid:455) (cid:272)annot sa(cid:455) (cid:455)es, and the ne(cid:454)t da(cid:455) the(cid:455) Catharine mackinnon (1946-present) cannot say no: masculinities, femininities and sexual violence, (cid:272)lip f(cid:396)o(cid:373) ja(cid:272)kso(cid:374) katz"s (cid:862)ted talk(cid:863) Starts by talking about the mythical norm: dis(cid:272)ussio(cid:374) of (cid:862)joh(cid:374)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)ma(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) As soon as we switch to the passive voice, we stop seeing john and his violence. Focuses the responsibility against the perpetrator for the violence and focuses on the victim. Hegemonic masculinity: the dominant and privileged form of masculinity. Some men feel obligated to perform in a hegemonic manner because that is what is privileged in society: overview of sexual assault in canada, reporting rates. 21,821 incidences of sexual assault recorded by police nationwide. 1,994 sexual assault prosecutions per year on average. 840 sexual assault convictions per year: treatment of sexually assaulted women, persistence of rape myths.