SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Gender Role, Femininity, Psy

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

Document Summary

Within the notion of conformity, there is inscribed a system of gender differentiation which enables defendants to be judged for their identity as much as for or instead of a crime that they may have committed. To that extent, the question must be asked whether defendants are found guilty of the crime charged or of the betrayal of their gender. Alison young: violent women: hege(cid:373)o(cid:374)i(cid:272) fe(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)ity a(cid:374)d ge(cid:374)der (cid:862)betrayal(cid:863) femininity of violent women is always noticed. Mean break the law, but when violent women assault someone they do not only break the law but they also break their gender. Both in canadian society and canadian law, betraying gender is a greater offence. Young is questioning whether women with violent offences are guilty because they broke the law or because they strayed away from their gender. Men who commit violence tend to have an abusive past as well.