SOSC 1350 Chapter Notes -John Henry Wigmore, Catharine Mackinnon, Hegemonic Masculinity
11 Jan 2013
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Virtuous women, like young girls, are unconsenting, virginal, rapable. Unvirtuous women, like wives and prostitutes, are consenting, whores, unrapable one day they cannot say yes, and the next day they cannot say no. Catharine mackinnon (1946-present: overview of sexual assault in canada, reporting rates. Matt logen (rmpc officer) said you have a 98% of getting away with sexual assaults. ^ reporting rates are very low, over 70% of women do not report assaults to police, estimate that sexual assault cases (10%) have been reported. Women born in the last 30 years, have been born with the legal system with women rights, but previous generations of women did not have that. Vast majority do not result in convictions: treatment of sexually assaulted women, persistence of rape myths. Many women fear they will not betaken seriously. The myths in caandian culture and system, play a role in court: aboriginal women all rationalized women (disabilities and etc)
