Feminist Theory Chapter 13 PDF

Feminist Theory Chapter 13 DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE & CRIMINOLOGY Feminist Theory: Luminaries  Meda Chesney-Lind  Professor of Women’s Studies & Chair, University of Hawai‘i  Fellow (1996), American Society of Criminology (ASC)  Distinguished Scholar Award (1994), Di...

Feminist Theory Chapter 13 DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE & CRIMINOLOGY Feminist Theory: Luminaries  Meda Chesney-Lind  Professor of Women’s Studies & Chair, University of Hawai‘i  Fellow (1996), American Society of Criminology (ASC)  Distinguished Scholar Award (1994), Division on Women & Crime, ASC  1992 – Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice  Hindelang Award (1992), ASC  Most outstanding contribution in previous 3‐years  Feminist Movement  1st Wave Feminism (mid-19th century to 1960s)  Demands: voting, education, & representation  Suffrage movement & the 19th Amendment (1920) LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO  Feminist Movement  2nd Wave Feminism (1960s to 1970s) – Demands:  Social equality  Equal Pay Act (1963); Title IX (1972), Women’s Education Equity Act (1974), Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974), & Pregnancy Discrimination Act (1978)  Women’s/ reproductive rights  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) – unconstitutional to prohibit married couples from using contraception  Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) – legalized contraception for all  Roe v. Wade (1973) – legalized access to abortion in 1st trimester  Equal protection against violence by intimate partners  Biden + Violence Against Women Act (1994) LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO  Feminist Movement  3rd Wave Feminism (1990s)  No one single definition of “femininity”  Social construction of “gender”  Intersectionality  Account for class, race/ ethnicity, & sexuality  Backlash of CJ response to violence against women  CJS patronizes female victims of domestic violence  Little emphasis on empowerment LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO