Men Have Gender and Women Are People: A Structural Approach to Gender and Violence

The relationship between violence and patriarchal gender systems is structural and coconstitutive; yet structural analyses that account for gender in explanations and conceptualizations of violence are often absent from violence scholarship. Additionally, there are numerous underassessed areas in mo...

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Authors: Applin, Samantha (Author) ; Simpson, John-Michael (Author) ; Curtis, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Violence against women
Year: 2023, Volume: 29, Issue: 5, Pages: 1097-1118
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
gender-based violence
Masculinities
Gender
patriarchy-facilitated violence
patriarchy-enhancing violence
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Summary:The relationship between violence and patriarchal gender systems is structural and coconstitutive; yet structural analyses that account for gender in explanations and conceptualizations of violence are often absent from violence scholarship. Additionally, there are numerous underassessed areas in more gender-nuanced, “gender-based” violence paradigms. We address the shortcomings of both types of research and propose a cohesive theoretical framework that captures the ways in which violence is patriarchy-enhancing and patriarchy-facilitated. Violence shapes and influences gender performances and structures and, concomitantly, the gender order shapes and influences violence in given contexts.
ISSN:1552-8448
DOI:10.1177/10778012221104844