Violence Through Words: Cultural Aspects and Performative Agency
This chapter aims at describing the ways and ploys used by words (in the various public and private contexts where they define relations) conveying a form of symbolic violence aimed at classifying genders as they play out their respective identity roles.
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The Trap of Proximity Violence Research and Insights into Male Dominance and Female Resistance
The Trap of Proximity Violence
Ignazia Bartholini
The Trap of Proximity Violence Research and Insights into Male Dominance and Female Resistance
Ignazia Bartholini University of Palermo Palermo, Italy
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Preface
The links between violence against women/gender-based violence and patriarchy have been explored at length by contemporary sociological literature. They describe an order of things firmly rooted in societies. They are rooted in the Western world even when it comes to the illusory crisis of this ominous binomial; they are rooted in the rest of the world where the same effects are clearly visible. Less travelled, though not completely unexplored, is the pathway that highlights the links between vulnerability and proximity violence, meant as a synthesis which reaches beyond patriarchal/post-patriarchal polarisation. Unknown is also the topos of convergence between resistance and regressive mestizament, which today defines one of the main constitutive junctions of its perpetuation. The violence trap lies precisely at the intersection between resistance against acknowledgement of violence by victims and nostalgia for an order of relationships once the basis of a social system felt by women who are not direct victims of that same violence. The investigative aim of this book is to bring to light the crevasses wh
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