Invisible Violence or from Ecstasy to Pain?

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  • Lourdes Fernández Rius

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https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2008000100015

Abstract

The values and roles for each gender are not socially recognized in an impartial way. It is a cultural construction that seeks, relying on the differences and, on a dichotomous hierarchy and power, to establish an inequality that reinforces the supremacy of masculinity as a value. In patriarchal culture – as a trend – men tend to be the most violent, and women to have a behavior of dependence and docility. Therefore the coupling relationships associated with fantasies of love are a space of power and are constantly harassed by experiences of servitude and domination. Difference – hierarchy – inequality – discrimination – violence, invisible feedback circuit that culture reedits daily and which expresses itself from psychological form to extreme damages primarily toward women on the amorous relationship.

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Published

2008-01-01

How to Cite

Rius, L. F. (2008). Invisible Violence or from Ecstasy to Pain?. Revista Estudos Feministas, 16(1), 133–144. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2008000100015

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