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SW 3703: Gender Violence in Global Perspectives. Session 3 / 6 Feb 2008. Sex and/versus Gender. Conventional understanding: Sex = Male, Female Gender = Boys, Girls, Men, Women. Males Boys/Men; Females Girls/Women Many complexities, many realities.
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SW 3703: Gender Violence in Global Perspectives Session 3 / 6 Feb 2008
Sex and/versus Gender • Conventional understanding: • Sex = Male, Female • Gender = Boys, Girls, Men, Women. • Males Boys/Men; Females Girls/Women • Many complexities, many realities. • Transgender people (sex or gender, which sex, which gender?) • Intersexual people • Gender non-conformity: Does that have anything to do with sex? • Sex: Genitals? Chromosomes?? • It is difficult to ascertain the number of genders that are there. It is also difficult to draw simple/simplistic connections between sex and gender.
Locations and manifestations of VAW • Explore forms of Physical/Emotional/Sexual VAW that occur in the following contexts: • Childhood • Adolescence • Adulthood • Older age • Explore forms of Physical/Emotional/Sexual VAW that occur in the following contexts: • Family • Community • The State Group I & II Group III & IV
Review of gender-related terms • Gender based violence • Violence against women • Domestic violence • Patriarchy (http://gray.intrasun.tcnj.edu/Caribbean/Patriarchy.htm) • Feminism (http://noturningback.stanford.edu/quotes.html) • Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. – Anonymous • The theory of, and the struggle for, equality of women. – Arvonne Fraser
