I am doing a research on the role of communication in addressing gender-based violence in Ghana, with the view of the use of strategic communication to modify social norms and attitudes that sanction male dominance.
I am not sure but perhaps this might help
Øystein Gullvåg Holter: Masculinities, Gender Equality and Violence. Masculinites and Social Change Vol. 2 No. 1 February 2013 pp. 51-81
Hi there, you may want to explore how resources contribute to GBV and hierarchical gendered relations by using 'social exchange theory'.
Hi Susana
I have read some work in relation to this when undertaking my PhD research (my theoretical framework was intersectionality - see work by Kimberle Crenshaw; Patricia Hill Collins and bell hooks). Here are some references which may help, they touch on domestic violence, but are also good for looking at the issues around identity, society and power. Some classic work by West & Zimmerman and West & Fenstermaker discusses how gender is operationalised to control women in social and cultural contexts. It's a start - and may give you some further leads for your research. All the best.
Charles, N 1996, ‘Feminist practices: identity, difference, power’, in N Charles & F Hughes-Freeland (eds), Practising feminism: identity, difference and power, Routledge, London, pp. 1–37.
Walby, S 1990, Theorizing patriarchy, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Walby, S, Armstrong, J & Strid, S 2012, ‘Intersectionality: multiple inequalities in social theory’, Sociology, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 224–240.
Weber, L 2010, Understanding race, class, gender, and sexuality: a conceptual framework, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, New York.
West, C & Fenstermaker, S 1995, ‘Doing difference’, Gender & Society, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 8–37.
West, C & Zimmerman, DH 1987, ‘Doing gender’, Gender & Society, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 125–151.
Thank you very much Susan for your references. Identity, society and power has a strong relationship with mental Health symptoms. How all this has been omitted in Psychopathology?? And in History of Psychiatry??? It is time for changes.
I agree with Susan's comments about intersectional theory.
Another resource that would be useful is Westlund 1999 - she talks about the use of modern and postmodern power in the context of domestic violence.
Susana, I offer a few references that may be useful...
Alcoff, L.M. and Gray, L., 1993, Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation
As someone suggested West& Zimmerman's Doing Gender, I'll add
Deutsch, F.M., 2007, Undoing Gender, Gender and Society, 21,1, pp.106-127
And on Patriarchy
Gilligan, C. and Richards, D.A.J., 2009, The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistence and Democracy's Future
best wishes,
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