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dc.contributor.advisor | Igneski, Violetta | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bryant, Robert | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-22T17:49:30Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-22T17:49:30Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28376 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this thesis, I take up sexual assault perpetrated by men against women in Canada as an example of structural injustice. I show that individual men who are not perpetrators of sexual assault share moral responsibility for this injustice with other men in both a backward- and forward-looking sense. In the first chapter, I introduce an account of the moral psychology of individual men who take themselves neither to be perpetrators, prospective perpetrators, nor indirect supporters of sexual assault again women. Then, I introduce a novel and expansive account of sexual assault as the sexual violation of bodily integrity, which I distinguish from that found in Canadian law. I turn to recent literature on sexual assault from the social sciences to support my claim that male-perpetrated sexual assault against women is a systematic phenomenon in Canada. With these pieces, I argue that this phenomenon constitutes both a violent form of oppression perpetrated by men as a group against women as a group, and that this group-based oppression is a form of structural injustice faced by women in Canada for which individual men are responsible in virtue of their membership in the gender group “men.” In the fourth chapter, I consider three possible objections to my initial proposal. In the final chapter, I respond providing a more specific account of the morally-salient connections individual men might bear to male-perpetrated sexual assault as perpetrators, indirect contributors, and beneficiaries of the gender-based sexual assault of women by men as well their special, forward-looking position to collectively act to end male-perpetrated sexual assault. Unlike other people living in Canada, men live at a special juncture of backward- and forward-looking responsibility that distinguishes their special moral responsibility for sexual assault. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | ethics | en_US |
dc.subject | responsibility | en_US |
dc.subject | sexual assault | en_US |
dc.subject | gender-based violence | en_US |
dc.subject | gender | en_US |
dc.subject | sex | en_US |
dc.subject | Canada | en_US |
dc.subject | structural injustice | en_US |
dc.subject | oppression | en_US |
dc.subject | bodily integrity | en_US |
dc.title | Individual Responsibility for Structural Injustice: The Case of Sexual Assault Perpetrated by Men | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
dc.description.layabstract | This paper examines the connection between individual men and the widespread phenomenon of sexual assault perpetrated by men against women. While it may seem obvious to the reader that there is a morally salient connection between individual perpetrators of sexual and the effects of their actions upon the women they harm, I argue that men who have never perpetrated sexual assault bear a number of important connections to the systematic sexual assault of women by men. Most importantly, I argue that insofar as sexual assault perpetrated by men against women constitutes a structural injustice, every man in Canada shares a special moral responsibility with other men. This responsibility gives men reason to participate in collective action to end male-perpetrated sexual assault. | en_US |
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