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dc.contributor.authorPease, Boben
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T23:27:47Z-
dc.date.available2022-06-30T23:27:47Z-
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.identifier.citation(16), 2004-2005en
dc.identifier.issn1327-5550en
dc.identifier.urihttps://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16703-
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherCASA House (Centre Against Sexual Assault)en
dc.subjectPolicyen
dc.subjectCALD (culturally and linguistically diverse)en
dc.subjectPerpetratorsen
dc.subjectPerpetrator programsen
dc.subjectTheories of violenceen
dc.subjectIndigenous issuesen
dc.subjectPreventionen
dc.subjectCross-culturalen
dc.titleRethinking profeminist men’s behaviour change programsen
dc.title.alternativeWomen against violence : an Australian feminist journalen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.catalogid1157en
dc.subject.keywordVictoriaen
dc.subject.keywordnew_recorden
dc.subject.keywordJournal article/research paperen
dc.description.notesThis article provides a literature review of perpetrator programmes that express profeminist values to assess the extent to which feminist analyses of men’s violence have been incorporated in the principles, theories and strategies for working with violent men. It argues that profeminist programmes for violent men or perpetrators’ programmes had led to a series of axioms which often failed to address the complexities of feminist theories. These include: expanding the definition of violence to include all controlling behaviours could lead to a concept of violence which loses its meaning; treating men’s violence as learned behaviour has led to cognitive-behavioural approaches which shift power and control from a structural issue to a behaviour issue; identification of masculinity led to a sex-role approach that gives more emphasis on the costs of masculinity rather than men’s privileges, which provides little analysis of gendered power or inequality; while men’s violence is about control of women but it is not always consciously exercised by violent men; men’s programmes have generally failed to address the intersections of race, class and culture in relation to men’s violence; and that the focus on men’s capacity to change does not examine the structural and cultural limitations on the process of individual change as the conception of ‘sole responsibility’ for violence is that of a rational and autonomous man disconnected from the patriarchal social relations. It explains the development of such approaches as partially a result of facilitators being drawn from therapeutic feminist literature rather than the wider feminist social theories. Therefore, the diversity of debates within feminism is not reflected in the men’s programmes. It suggests that the limitations of existing representations of feminist analysis in men’s programmes need to be understood so that programmes could be developed to build on feminist understandings, to ensure that feminist analyses are not depoliticised or co-opted as they are in the current approaches of most of the men’s programmes.en
dc.identifier.sourceWomen against violence : an Australian feminist journalen
dc.date.entered2005-07-28en
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