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Violence, Gender and Culture - A Global Survey
Spring 2012, SASH24, 7,5 hp/ECTS
The greater part of all violence in the world is exercised by men – the violence is directed both towards other men, women and themselves. Even forms of violence legalized by society - violence performed by different occupational groups, in sports and in popular culture – tend to be understood as somehow connected to men. In the same way victims are often seen as equal to women. But why? How is violence linked to masculinity and male identity? And victimhood to femininity and female identity?
This course give an overview of various forms of violence in different global contexts: rape, intimate partner violence, rape as a weapon in war, honor related violence, child sexual abuse, female genital mutilation, self harm, girls violence, trafficking and legitimated violence. The overall aim is to explore and problematize the connection between gender, violence and culture. It promotes a critical attitude towards how violence is described and explained in science, politics and in the media. It also gives an understanding of how conceptions of gender and cultural affect how we understand explain and deal with violence in different communities.
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Last modified 19 Dec 2011
SASH24
Ethnology: Violence, Gender and Culture - A Global Surbey 7,5 ECTS credits
Gabriella Nilsson
PhD
Division of Ethnology
Phone:
+46 46-2223966
E-mail:
Gabriella.Nilsson@kultur.lu.se