Completing the
Gender Assignment
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First Sources: Material
covered in class!
 Tough Guise
 Emasculating Truth
 Codes of Gender
- Expectations of masculinity
often defined by media
- Costs? violence against
women
- Expectations of
masculinity changing
- Costs? Confusion about
identity and what it
means to be a man
- Codes and gender displays in
media reinforce role of women as
weak, submissive, subject to
violence etc.
Collecting Secondary Sources
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Second Sources: School
Databases!
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“Missing and Murdered”
 “A Devastating Toll:
Violence against women”
 Silent Suffering: Men as
victims of domestic abuse
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Large numbers of native
women missing in Canada
RCMP not pursuing cases
Racism and gender violence?
Violence against women one of
largest human rights issues in
world
Many stats on violence
Other types of violence i.e.
genital cutting, honour crimes
etc.
Most domestic violence
committed by both men and
women
If only one partner commits
violence, wife-only violence up
2X husband-only violence
Collecting Secondary Sources
What have I found so far?
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Some rates of violence – need more
Some trends in behaviour – need more
Literature search for general information
What Do I Still Need to Find?
 Relationship between age and violence
 Types of violent behaviour
What am I Going to Drop from Research Plan?
 Causes/predictors of violent behaviour
Check my Research Plan
Gender and Violence Misogyny in Popular
Culture Today
Blueprint of this Unit
Gender and Social Change
Gender and
Violence
TV
Movies
Music
Sports
Family
Sexual
Media
War
Police
Body
Image
Thesis
Gender-based violence is one of the largest
human rights issues in the world today.
While statistics indicate that men are more
likely to be victims of certain types of
violence, women remain the most frequent
target of violence based on gender.
1. In this activity, you are going to explore your own views and beliefs
about gender-based violence.
2. Class to stand in the center of the room or somewhere where they
can form a line. I will call out a statement. You are to step to the right
if you agree with the statement or step to the left if disagree.
Statements
• In some circumstances, women provoke violent behaviour.
• We can’t judge gender-based violence if it occurs in a culture where it is
normal.
• Men sometimes have a good reason to use violence against their partners.
• Violent behaviour by women against men is not the same as violence
against women.
Vote With Your Feet
Gender-Based Violence is violence involving men and women, in
which the woman is usually the victim. It comes from gender
“beliefs” and “roles” as well as from unequal power relations
between women and men.
Violence is specifically targeted against a person because of his or
her gender, and it affects women far more than men.
It includes physical, sexual, and psychological harm. It includes
violence perpetuated by the state.
- Adapted from UNFPA Gender Theme Group, 1998
What is GBV?
Intimate partner violence is
common across the world:
A WHO study conducted in 10
countries found that between
15% and 71% of women
experience some form of IPV at
some point in their lives; in most
countries prevalence estimates
range from 30% to 60%.
In most countries 20-33% of
women reported IPV within the
past 12 months.
What can we do about it?
How Common is GBV?
Across the world……
Sexual Violence
•The WHO study found that 6% to 59% of women
reported experience of sexual violence at some point in
their lives, with most sites within the 10% to 50% range
•1% to 44% of women experienced sexual violence in
the 12 months prior to the study
Percentage of women who report health outcomes as a consequence of
acts carried out by their husbands or partners
Health Consequences
Misogyny is defined
as a dislike or hatred
of woman and girls.
• It can be manifested in many
ways, such as discrimination,
sexual objectification, and
violence.
What is Misogyny?
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Some of the most
popular, mainstream
prime-time programs
now traffic in images so
gruesome that until
recently you would only
have seen them in
theatrical movies like
“Halloween” or
“Hannibal”……And
body parts, lots of body
parts.
New Gore Values, Newsday, November 3,
2002
The Parents’ Television Council
logs instances of scenes of graphic
torture or sadism on network
television. Between 2000 and 2002,
that number almost doubled.
The Washington Post named the
2002 TV season, “Die! Women,
Die!” to reflect excessive violence
against women.
Television and Radio
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This plastic surgery series
focuses on two male doctors
who perform surgery on
women, many of whom they
have had sex with.
In one show, a man sews
together a cadaver sex toy,
starting with the decapitated
head of his sister.
Nip and Tuck
A stay-at-home stripper has her throat slit while performing via webcam, women
are paralyzed by spider venom, unable to fight back against a rapist who then
murders them, a woman is violated by aliens, then found naked in a swamp, and
a woman’s head is found inside a newspaper box….with a snake coiled inside
her mouth.
Q.
R.
What do these scenes tell us about woman?
Directors of the CBS Show, “Criminal Minds” tried to defend a storyline
where a would-be used-car buyer end up in a cage with her eyes and mouth
duct-taped, awaiting execution. Their response was that all of their show’s
demonstrate crimes that are based on real ones. It just happens that the
crimes are usually against women.
That Same Season……
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WWE star, Road Rage Al,
carried around a female
doll’s head with the
words “help me”
scrawled on the forehead.
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His toy set was sold in
Wal-Mart in Canada and
the U.S. until enough
people protested
WWE – it’s just honest fun,
right?
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Vince McMahon, CEO of
WWE, forced Canadian
Trish Stratus to undress in
front of the crowd, crawl
on all fours and bark like a
dog….. All to apologize to
him for something.
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Does she look happy?
In another match, Triple H chases his wife around the stadium, and
drags her by her hair….while the crowd is cheering. She shows up at
the next show in a neck brace. Triple H tells her he hopes she has one
in every colour because he’s going to “make sure she stays in a neck
brace for a long time.”
What does it say
when the previous
Premier of Ontario
appears at a press
conference to
support WWE?
Does he support
what they do in the
ring?
Generation M – Misogyny
in Media and Culture
http://www.mediaed.org/cgibin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=234
#film-praise
2009 Cannes Film Festival
“Misogyny – hatred of women – was
insidious in the official selection at Cannes
this year…It was rare to find a movie
where the central female wasn’t playing a
whore , a nut case, a victim or all three.
…an appalling drama by Filipino director
Billante Mendoza that shows the kidnap,
rape, torture, murder and dismemberment
of a prostitute”……this drama won for Best
Director.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
MOVIES
Billboard for “Captivity”
Billboard for
“Captivity”
- shown in hightraffic areas of Los
Angeles
-on top of 1400 taxi
cabs in New York
City
Film produced by
After Dark, and
distributed by
Canadian firm,
Lionsgate Films
Joss Whedon,
creator of the TV
series, Buffy the
Vampier Slayer
said….
“..the ad campaign for
“Captivity” is not only a
literal sign of the
collapse of humanity, it’s
an assault….it “is part of
something dangerous
and repulsive, and that
act of aggression has to
be answered.”
Restatement of Thesis
Gender-based violence is one of the largest
human rights issues in the world today.
While statistics indicate that men are more
likely to be victims of certain types of
violence, women remain the most frequent
target of violence based on gender.