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The problem of men's violence to known women-principally wives, partners, girlfriends-is, at last, more widely recognized. The Violences of Men addresses the problem of men's violence to known women within the broad context of men's use of power and violence in society. Jeff Hearn considers the scale of men's violence against women, and critically reviews the theoretical frameworks that are used to explain this violence. From the perspective of “critical studies of men,” he discusses issues, challenges, and possible research methods for those studying and researching violence, and particularly men's violence to known women. He then draws on extensive original research to analyze the various ways in which men describe, deny, justify, and excuse their violence, and considers the complex interaction between doing violence and talking about violence. He goes on to examine agencies' responses to men's violence, ranging from avoidance to policy and practice innovations and possibilities, before discussing ways that some men may move away from violence. The Violences of Men makes an important contribution both to theoretical debates about how to understand men's violence, and to debates on appropriate policy and practice in response to that violence.
The Text of Violence: (2) How Men Account for Their Violence
The Text of Violence: (2) How Men Account for Their Violence
When men account for violence, they are often both giving an explanation and constructing a rationale for that violence. Sometimes explicitly, often inadvertently, these interviews, like other talk about violence, provided the opportunity for men to justify and/or excuse their violence to women. The means of doing this are varied and at times extremely convoluted; they often draw on several different modes of accounting, within one interview, or even one statement or sentence.
All of the men interviewed were able to give some kind of account of their violence, an account that was of varying credibility. In giving an account of his violence the man ...
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