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This book uses various theoretical perspectives to summarize what is known about the multiple causes of men's violence against women, and stresses the importance of identifying men's risk factors. The preliminary multivariate model identifies four content areas: macrosocietal; biological; gender role socialization; and relational factors to explain men's violence against women. Within these four content areas the editors develop thirteen preliminary hypotheses about the causes of men's violence against women, which are critiqued by the contributors in the subsequent chapters.
Women's Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict, and Abuse: A Review of Predisposing Factors
Women's Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict, and Abuse: A Review of Predisposing Factors
This chapter considers women's gender-role socialization and the ensuing gender-role conflict as a major predisposing factor for women's domestic violence victimization. Most cultures, including ours, teach women that they are of lesser value than men. Women are not taught self-respect, personal confidence, and assertiveness skills, which are all necessary preventive traits against domestic violence. It is not surprising, therefore, that their gender-role socialization does not protect women from domestic violence; in fact, it may set them up to be recipients of abuse.
This chapter reviews women's gender-role socialization through a chronology of life stages and demonstrates gender-role conflict through common patterns of ...
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