| Assignment Number 7 Discussion/Writing Russell & Harmes Chapter 10. Intimate Femicide in Israel: Temporal, Social, and Motivational Patterns (115-127) Russell & Harmes Chapter 11. Femicide: An international speakout. (128-137) Russell & Harmes Chapter 12. Female infanticide in China: The human rights specter and thoughts towards (an)other vision. (138-146) Russell & Harmes Chapter 13. Women killing: Intimate femicide in Ontario, 1974-1994. (147-165) Russell & Harmes Chapter 14. Femicide in Australia: Findings from the national homicide monitoring program. (166-175) Russell & Harmes Conclusion. Femicide: Some men's "final solution" for women. (176-188) |
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Name _____________________ Date due: September 23, 2004 Psychology 317 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D. |
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| 1. | What is your reaction to Erika Leif's CASDA presentation? What did you learn? |
| 2. | What theory is offered by Landau and Rolef to account for the findings from the special Israeli Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry for the Investigation of the Killing of Women by their Intimate Partners? Describe that theory. (124) |
| 3. | What did you learn from "A Speakout on Femicide?" (128-137) |
| 4. | What is meant by the term social femicide? (140) |
| 5. | How do you understand the femicide described in the three chapters for today's assignment (Intimate Femicide in Israel, Femicide: An international speakout, and Female Infanticide in China)? What do you believe are the cultural forces perpetuating this oppression and violence? |
| 6. | What is meant by the term male proprietariness? Do you believe that term aptly describes one of the motivations for femicide? (149) |
| 7. | Are intimate femicides best understood as momentary rages or heat-of-passion killings? Why? Explain. (157) |
| 8. | Isabel Maarcus (1994) argues that male violence against female partners is terrorism. Do you agree? Explain. (163) What does it stem from? (177) |
| 9. | What was the intent of Diana Russell in describing the femicidal atrocities in the last chapter? Do you believe it has that effect? Explain. (187) |