Sociologists study many forms of violence including riots, wars, serial killers, violence in the home, violence between gangs, gun violence, hate-crime violence, violence within minority communities, capital punishment, and even violence against ourselves. Beginning in the early twenty-first century and continuing to the present, much media (though less academic) attention has been paid to violence against women and children in several institutions. Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past fifty years to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal levels.Using intersectional theory as a theoretic lens, this text examines the ways in which power and privilege are exacerbated in social institutions that are largely sex-segregated as well as the ways in which this arrangement contributes to environments that are predisposed to violence against women and children. What makes this book unique is that it focuses almost exclusively on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), a growing subfield that is rich with literature but light on synthetic texts.This book focuses primarily on violence in the following five institutions:(1)Military (2)Fraternities(3) Sports World(4) The church (specifically the Catholic Church worldwide)(5) Prisons

Gender, Power, and Violence

Politics & Social Sciences

SMITH, EARL

Hattery Professor, Angela J

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Gender, Power and Violence examines gender based violence (sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and child sexual abuse) in 5 social institutions: the military, prisons, fraternities, sports, and the Catholic Church. These five institutions share a set of characteristics that result in high rates of gender based violence: sex segregation, hyper masculinity, fraternal nature (loyalty to the institution above to the person) and internal systems of justice. Though there is variation among the institutions with regards to these characteristics (e.g. prisons are entirely sex segregated whereas the Catholic Church is sex segregated among the leadership but not the general body), these characteristics shape the prevalence of gender based violence and responses to it. In general, these institutions deny that gender based violence takes place at all, but particularly in their institutions, they fail to acknowledge the role that the culture of the organization plays in creating a climate ripe for gender based violence, and they sweep it under the rug, which tends to result in serial offenders abusing multiple victims.

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