GENDERING VIOLENCE
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- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 15 (3) , 358-380
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124301015003003
Abstract
This article examines the construction of gender within men's accounts of domestic violence. Analyses of in-depth interviews conducted with 33 domestically violent heterosexual men indicate that these batterers used diverse strategies to present themselves as nonviolent, capable, and rational men. Respondents performed gender by contrasting effectual male violence with ineffectual female violence, by claiming that female partners were responsible for the violence in their relationships and by constructing men as victims of a biased criminal justice system. This study suggests that violence against female partners is a means by which batterers reproduce a binary framework of gender.Keywords
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