WOMS240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Honor Killing, Female Genital Mutilation, Femicide

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS240
• Professor: Marie Laberge

Document Summary

Gendered violence is often explained as a natural and universal consequence of the biological differences between men and women i. e. men have the urge to reproduce, which will lead to rape. If patriarchy is a social construction, then the violence that results from it becomes more problematic and less easy to dismiss as human nature" . The contributions of marx and engels (marx) in the legal, monogamous family, women exchange sexual and domestic services for economic security, and male sexual control of women in marriage is the equivalent of slave ownership. According to engels, men circumventing ownership of property around their wives is the beginning of the patriarchal society and systematic gender violence. Anthropological research supports a social theory of gender, as opposed to a biological one. Different cultures define masculinity and femininity differently depending on their needs, and certain cultures may identify more than two genders.