Completing the Gender Assignment - PowerPoint Presentation

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Completing the Gender AssignmentSlide2

First Sources: Material covered in class!

Tough Guise Emasculating TruthCodes of Gender

Collecting Secondary Sources

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.Slide3

Second Sources: School Databases!

“Missing and Murdered”“A Devastating Toll: Violence against women”Silent Suffering: Men as victims of domestic abuse

Collecting Secondary Sources

Most domestic violence committed by both men and women

If only one partner commits violence, wife-only violence up 2X husband-only

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.

Large numbers of native women missing in Canada

RCMP not pursuing cases

Racism and gender violence?Slide4

What have I found so far?

Some rates of violence – need more

Some trends in behaviour – need moreLiterature search for general information

What Do I Still Need to Find?Relationship between age and violence

Types of violent behaviourWhat am I Going to Drop from Research Plan?

Causes/predictors of violent behaviour

Check my Research PlanSlide5

Gender and Violence - Misogyny in Popular Culture TodaySlide6

Blueprint of this Unit

Gender and Social Change

Gender and Violence

TV Movies

Music

Sports

Family

Sexual

Media

War

Police

B

ody

ImageSlide7

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.

ThesisSlide8

Vote With Your Feet

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.Slide9

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?Slide10

How Common 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?Slide11

Across the world……Slide12

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 studySlide13

Health Consequences

Percentage of women who report health outcomes as a consequence of acts carried out by their husbands or partnersSlide14

What is Misogyny?

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.Slide15

Television and Radio

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.Slide16

Nip and Tuck

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.Slide17

That Same Season……

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.

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.Slide18

WWE – it’s just honest fun, right?

WWE star, Road Rage Al, carried around a female doll’s head with the words “help me” scrawled on the forehead.

His toy set was sold in Wal-Mart in Canada and the U.S. until enough people protestedSlide19

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.

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.”Slide20

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?Slide21

Generation M – Misogyny in Media and Culture

http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=234#film-praiseSlide22

MOVIES

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 StarSlide23

Billboard for “Captivity”Slide24

Billboard for “Captivity”

- shown in high-traffic 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.”Slide25

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.

Restatement of Thesis