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Feminist writers.
Date Submitted: 08/28/2004 04:48:14
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 5 pages (1249 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 5 pages (1249 words)
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF FEMINIST RESEARCH
Q1. Overall, what aspect of criminology has been 'exposed' by feminist writers?
Feminist writers have managed to achieve many things and to also demonstrate that criminology is dominated by men in all areas. Practically all of the theories within criminology have relatively ignored women, only to see them predominately in the role of caregiver and mother rather than a prospective criminal. Women tended to be excluded altogether by theorist such …
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…the example of men's rights within marriage. Until recently, a wife could not accuse her husband of rape as a man's right to sex was seen as more important than a woman's feelings or rights over her own body.
Bibliography
Class handout: women and crime
Gelsthorpe, L. (1990) Feminist methodologies in criminology: a new approach for old wine in new bottles Gelsthorpe and Morris (1990)
Heidensohn, F (1985) Women and Crime, London: Macmillan
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