Topic 2.1 Rape Culture
As we have seen before, sexual violence is not inherent to human being but it is a social construction.
So in order to eradicate this, is necessary to be awareness of the social mechanisms that promote it.
These are:
- Social and cultural construction of hegemonic masculinity
We have already seen the patriarchal gender constructions that can lead to gender based violence and, therefore, to sexual violence.
- Objectification and sexualization of women
Objectification (or reification) is the process through which a person or society itself reduces a person (someone) into a thing (something), taking that person away what makes him/her a person.
It goes closely related to sexualization which is the attribution of an erotic/sexual connotation to something that shouldn’t have it.
In our society this two concepts get together turning women into sexual objects and therefore in bodies for men to be used.