Perceived gender role conflict and violence
Author: Lorraine Gray
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
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Gender and Conflict
Author: Annelou Ypeij
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1317130812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough an in-depth analysis of the multifaceted manifestations of gender and conflict, this book shows how cognition and behaviour, agency and victimization, are gendered beyond the popular stereotypes. Conflict not only reconfirms social hierarchies and power relations, but also motivates people to transgress cultural boundaries and redefine their self-images and identities. The contributions are a mix of classical ethnography, performance studies and embodiment studies, showing ’emotions and feelings’ often denied in scientific social research. Strong in their constructivist approach and unorthodox in theory, the articles touch upon the dynamic relation between the discourses, embodiments and symbolic practices that constitute the gendered world of conflict. The localities and research sites vary from institutional settings such as a school, rebel movements, public toilets and the military to more artistic domains of gendered conflicts such as prison theatre classes and the capoeira ring. At the same time, these conflicts and domains appropriate wider discourses and practices of a global nature, demonstrating the globalised and institutionalised nature of the nexus gender-conflict. A first set of chapters deals with ’breaking the gender taboos’ and renegotiating the stereotypical gender roles - masculinities or femininities - during conflict. A second set of chapters focuses more explicitly on the bodily experience of conflict either physically of symbolically, while the last set straddle body and narrative. The inductive quality of the work leads to unexpected insights and does give access to worlds that are new, and often surprising and unconventional.
Men's Gender Role Conflict
Author: James M. O'Neil
Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781433818189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMen's gender role conflict is a psychological state in which restrictive definitions of masculinity limit men's well-being and human potential. Gender role conflict (GRC) doesn't just harm boys and men, but also girls and women, transgendered people, and society at large. Extensive research relates men's GRC to myriad behavioral problems, including sexism, violence, homophobia, depression, substance abuse, and relationship issues. This book represents a call to action for researchers and practitioners, graduate students, and other mental healthcare professionals to confront men's GRC and reduce its harmful influence on individuals and society. James O'Neil is a pioneer in men's psychology who conceptualized GRC and created the Gender Role Conflict Scale. In this book, he combines numerous studies from renowned scholars in men's psychology with more than 30 years of his own clinical and research experience to promote activism and challenge the status quo. He describes multiple effects of men's GRC, including success, power, and competition issues restricted emotionality restricted affectionate behavior between men conflicts between men's work and family relations. O'Neil also explains when GRC can develop in a man's gender role journey, how to address it through preventative programs and therapy for boys and men, and what initiatives researchers and clinicians can pursue.
Perceptions of Justice and Gender Role Conflict Among Men's Rights Activists
Author: William Ash-Houchen
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Men's Rights Activists are often understood within the literature as a product of a reactionary or countermovement to the second wave of Feminism. However, Men's Rights Activists also mobilize around specific social issues like intimate partner violence perpetration and restrictive roles associated with masculinity or the male gender. This thesis examines 29 responses to a constructed survey using existing indices that measure attitudes about social justice, gender role conflict, and attitudes about personal responsibility. Although participants did not report significant levels of gender role conflict, participants did report attitudes that are associated with social justice and high levels of perceived control over their own lives. Respondents also reported increased levels of perceived behavioral control related to social justice activism. The thesis was exploratory in nature, and the findings help empirically connect existing theoretical literature and the current iteration of the Men's Rights Movement that exists primarily in an online setting."--Page v.
A New Psychology of Men
Author: Ronald F. Levant
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780465039166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by feminist scholars who revolutionized our understanding of women's gender roles, the contributors to this pioneering book describe how men's proscribed roles are neither biological nor social givens, but rather psychological and social constructions. Questioning the traditional norms of the male role (such as the emphasis on aggression, competition, status, and emotional stoicism), they show how some male problems (such as violence, homophobia, devaluation of women, detached fathering, and neglect of health needs) are unfortunate by-products of the current process by which males are socialized. By synthesizing the latest research, clinical experience, and major theoretical perspectives on men and by figuring in cultural, class, and sexual orientation differences, the authors brilliantly illuminate the many variations of male behavior. This book will be a valuable resource not just for students of gender psychology in any discipline but also for clinicians and researchers who need to account for the relationship between men's behavior and the contradictory and inconsistent gender roles imposed on men. This new understanding of men's psychology is sure to enhance the work of clinical professionals-including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, and psychiatric nurses-in helping men reconstruct a sense of masculinity along healthier and more socially just lines.
War and Gender
Author: Joshua S. Goldstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-17
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780521001809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of our state of knowledge, Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought well, the complex role of testosterone in men's social behaviours, and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war. Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and children to the needs of the war system. lllustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, this book provides a unique study of a fascinating issue.
What Causes Men's Violence Against Women?
Author: Michele Harway
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1999-09-09
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780761906193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Gender and Political Violence
Author: Candice D. Ortbals
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-09
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 3319736280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism. Political violence has historically been viewed as a male domain with men considered the perpetrators of violence and power, and women as victims without power. Whereas men and masculinity are associated with war and aggression, women and femininity conjure up socially constructed images of passivity and peace. This distinction of men as aggressors and women as passive victims denies women their voice and agency. This book investigates how women cope with and influence violent politics, and is both a descriptive and analytical attempt to describe in what ways women are present or absent in political contexts involving political violence, and how they deal with gender assumptions, express gender identities, and frame their actions regarding political violence encountered in their lives. The book looks to reach beyond the notion of women as victims of terrorism or genocide without agency, and to recognize the gendered nature of political conflicts and how women respond to violence. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, academics in terrorism studies and gender studies, government officials, NGOs, and professionals working in areas of violent conflict.
Conflict and Gender
Author: Anita Taylor
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines ways in which conflict resolution and feminist theories might be integrated to enhance our understanding and management of conflicts, particularly those between men and women. Women and child victimisation, everyday conflicts and historical perspectives are explored.
Women’s Attitudes and Experiences of the Female Gender Role
Author: Andrea L. Taylor
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 147
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGender role conflict research pertaining to women is lacking. Pleck’s (1981) original postulation of gender role conflict highlighting the psychological strain experienced by navigating traditional gender roles indicated (a) violation of gender roles can lead to negative psychological consequences, (b) certain gender role characteristics are psychologically dysfunctional, and (c) both sexes experience conflict because of gender roles. This study adds to research regarding gender role conflict in females by developing a scale to measure the construct as it affects women. Having control, valuing independence, valuing career progression, feeling pressure and worry, valuing her partner’s contribution, and feeling resentment were explored as factors influencing a woman’s experience of gender role conflict. Three hypotheses were explored: (A) items of the Taylor Female-Gender Role Conflict Scale (TF-GRCS) will cluster into six gender role factors, (B) the TF-GRCS will yield acceptable reliability and validity outputs indicating the psychometric soundness of the scale, and (C) demographic characteristics of participants will influence their experience of gender role and related conflict. Data were collected in two phases (N = 312; N = 367) and analyzed using Pearson r correlation and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to compare the TF-GRCS to the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS-I). Factor analysis revealed that feeling pressure and worry (alpha = .793), having control (alpha = .709), and valuing career progression (alpha = .705) were significant factors in a woman’s experience of gender role conflict. Pearson r = .340 proved significant indicating that the TF-GRCS and the GRCS-I are measuring different factors influencing gender role conflict. Sex-type and demographic characteristics also proved significant (p
