Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Gendering violence: masculinity and power in men's accounts of domestic violence
Other Titles:	Gender & society
Authors:	Anderson, Kristin L Umberson, Debra
Keywords:	Perpetrators
Year:	2001
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	15 (3), June 2001
Notes:	Official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society Outlines the methodology and results of a study aimed at examining how gender influences male perpetrators’ experience of domestic violence, the ways in which gender is constructed within men’s accounts and the strategies used by perpetrators to explain, and often justify, their actions. Identifies various ways in which social class and situation can influence the strategies employed and image of masculinity being constructed. Argues that male violence towards women is shaped by cultural options and structural changes in the gender order which threaten to destabilise social perceptions of ‘masculinity’, suggesting its use is a means for reinforcing and/or reproducing a binary and hierarchical gender system.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14965
ISSN:	0891-2432
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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