CRM 2307 Study Guide - Reproductive Rights, Intersectionality
Document Summary
Intro to course: the course will go beyond confined ideas of violence against women" as only domestic violence and will look to themes of the diversity of women and their experiences ( intersectionality", the overlapping of many systems of oppression. For example gender, race, economic status, religion, etc. ). It will look at the patriarchy which produces violence against women by men but it will also look at violence by other women. Other themes will include the diversity within feminism, foregrounding the voice of experience, the context of women"s experiences, the public sphere, power and resistance. The montreal massacre: three perspectives, psychological : looks at the family of the perpetrator and the individual (he came from a broken family, his mother was severe, abusive father, etc. ).
