Question of gender Flashcards
CC most important aspect is that it is gendered. Think about language used (‘whore’), some abusers never call their partner by their name.
Stark would argue that men who choose to be abusive are…
more successful because the way society is ordered allows them to be
Stark 2007:199
“…it is the social endowment men inherit from sexual inequality…that allows them (but rarely women) to…entrap partners and meek them…
subordinate”
Stark 2007: 211
“the most dramatic facet of control strategies is their focus on responsibilities linked to women’s default and devalued roles as…
homemaker, caretaker and sexual partner”
CC operates large through constructions and deconstructions of gender. Abusers define what it means to be a man and woman in a relationship and then…
focus their abuse on what it means to be a woman
Although men are typically physically stronger than women, it is sexual inequality and the way society is ordered around gender that allows men to control women.
Sense of entitlement still remains and it used to be codified in law…
rape in marriage only made illegal 1991
R.W. CONNELL - gender orders at the macro level and gender regimes at the mess and micro levels, e.g.
organisations and families
CONNELL - societal level = men are still constructed as dominant and women as submissive - men still play on the stereotypes of…
women as over-emotional and irrational
CONNELL - women’s careers are affected more than men’s in relation to having children which can change…
power balance
CONNELL - men still earn more than
women
CONNELL - Work organisations = good examples of regimes where gender is ‘enacted’.
Women who are dominant and career-focused = cold and ruthless, whereas men who are dominant are often respected and regarded as
breadwinners
CONNELL - Women are arguably labelled by their personal characteristics and judged in a way that men frequently are not, for instance women are
objectified (reflected in language used in CC, e.g. ‘slag’)
