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Extract 3.4, Language and gender Adams, Peter J.; Towns, Alison; Gavey, Nicola

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticleArticlePublication details: Tuscaloosa, AL, and Edinburgh, UK University of Alabama Press and Edinburgh University Press 2003ISBN:
  • 0817350691
Subject(s): In: In M. Talbot, K. Atkinson, & D. Atkinson (Eds.), Language and power in the modern world, p. 184-199Summary: This book section is taken from Adams, P. J., Towns, A., & Gavey, N. (1995). Dominance and entitlement: The rhetoric men use to discuss their violence towards women. Discourse and Society, 1995, 6(3):387-406.(see record #2324). The authors discuss the discourses used by abusive men when explaining their violence towards their female partners and when asserting their dominance over their partners. The research involved qualitative interviews with men, in which they were asked to explain their understanding of women's role in society and within an intimate relationship. The findings outline the metaphors and discourse of 'natural entitlement' employed by the men, in which men were considered to be the head of the family, and had the right to hit or use physical force against women who did not comply with their partner's demands.
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This book section is taken from Adams, P. J., Towns, A., & Gavey, N. (1995). Dominance and entitlement: The rhetoric men use to discuss their violence towards women. Discourse and Society, 1995, 6(3):387-406.(see record #2324). The authors discuss the discourses used by abusive men when explaining their violence towards their female partners and when asserting their dominance over their partners. The research involved qualitative interviews with men, in which they were asked to explain their understanding of women's role in society and within an intimate relationship. The findings outline the metaphors and discourse of 'natural entitlement' employed by the men, in which men were considered to be the head of the family, and had the right to hit or use physical force against women who did not comply with their partner's demands.

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In M. Talbot, K. Atkinson, & D. Atkinson (Eds.), Language and power in the modern world, p. 184-199