SW 3703 Gender Violence in Global Perspective

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SW 3703Gender Violence in Global Perspective

• February 20, 2008

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Feedback

• Average score 4.8/5

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Session Plan

• Blog (http//blog.lib.umn.edu/sharm087/gvgp/)
• Culture
• Guest speaker

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Culture

• What is culture?
• Is it uniform?
• Is it stable?
• Cultural positions (Based on Warriers paper)
• The emissary position
• The mirror position
• The authentic insider

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Social and cultural conditions that perpetuate
and promote VAW (Parrot Cummings)

• Microlevel vulnerability
• Political instability
• Refugee status
• Immigration status
• Regional conflicts

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Microlevel vulnerability

• Political structures/instability
• Romania
• Refugee status
• Tanzania
• Immigration status
• Immigrants in the US
• Exercise
• Regional conflicts
• Lebanon

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Macrolevel vulnerability

• Religion Religious policies
• Magdalen asylums Ireland
• Trokosi system Ghana
• Devdasi system India
• Cultural values
• Undervalued females (raising a female child is
  like watering your neighbors plants)
• Socially desirable characteristics (acid
  attacks Egypt, UK, India, Jamaica, Italy,
  Malaysia, Nigeria, Vietnam)
• Womens chastity
• Machismo
• Homophobia
• Victim blaming