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Title: SW 3703 Gender Violence in Global Perspective


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SW 3703Gender Violence in Global Perspective
  • February 20, 2008

2
Feedback
  • Average score 4.8/5

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

4
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

5
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
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