Violence

International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities

This entry does not provide an overview of the whole range of men’s violences (Hearn 1998).

Many of the relevant issues are already addressed in a broad range of other entries noted at the end of this entry. This present essay partly responds to the task of bringing together analyses of different kinds of violence, including organisational and collective violence, military violence, rape and violence to women in the home. It also addresses another key question (Hearn and Pringle 2006): how do men’s gendered practices intersect with other oppressive power relations around sexuality, cultural difference/ethnicity, age, disability and class, and what are the implications of such analyses for challenging those practices and assisting those abused?

Whilst acknowledging that some women engage in acts of violence and that clearly not all men are violent (Hearn 1998), this entry starts from a recognition that

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