Using research from across disciplines such as Criminology, Feminist Theory, and Social Psychology, the following paper presents a case for the restructuring of the present understanding of violence, victims, survivors, and perpetrators. The current definitions and understandings of each of these topics are narrow caricatures which results in the exclusion of many instances of violence. I complicate our understandings of victims and of perpetrators, to allow people thought of as unable to perpetrate violence, to be held accountable and those thought as unable to be victimized to be believed.
Thesis
A Feminist Exploration of Violence: How Language and Identity Shape Perceptions
University of Iowa
Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Iowa
Spring 2018
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Feminist Exploration of Violence: How Language and Identity Shape Perceptions
- Creators
- Mckinna Wilts - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Maryann Rasmussen (Advisor) - University of Iowa, Gender, Women's and Sexuality StudiesPatrick A Dolan Jr (Mentor) - University of Iowa, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Project Type
- Honors Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Date degree season
- Spring 2018
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- 55 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2018 Mckinna Wilts
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Honors Program; CLAS Honors Theses
- Record Identifier
- 9984109849002771
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