SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: World Health Organization, Masculinity, Social Stigma
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Both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks equality and justice between the sexes in terms of rights, respect, pay, and treatment. Women and men are entitled to equal rights, pay, respect, treatment, etc. Women are currently disadvantaged with respect to rights and respect, compared with men. Disagreement over what counts as injustice and what should be done to address it. The social process of gendering production and reproduction. Social learning related to masculine and feminine agency. Young girls notion of run like a girl run like what they run. After puberty run like a girl is more dramatized and become feminine looks. Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women (world health organization definition) Sexual, physical, emotional abuse, assault or harassment. 1/3 women across world experience gender-based violence. Four rules of masculinity limit what men can be and do (robert brannon 1976)
