What are the five insights Daly and Chesney-Lind consider to be distinctive features of feminist theory? How could this influence criminal justice policies?
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Gender is not a natural fact but a complex social, historical, and cultural product; it is related to, but not simply derived from, biological sex differences and reproductive capacities. (2) Gender and gender relations order social life and social institutions in fundamental ways. (3) Gender relations and constructs of masculinity and femininity are not symmetrical but are based on an organizing principle of men’s superiority and social and political-economic dominance over women. (4) Systems of knowledge reflect men’s views of the natural and social worlds; the production of knowledge is gendered. (5) Women should be at the center of intellectual inquiry, not peripheral, invisible, or appendages of men. Their idea of how to influence policy.
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