Overcome your anger if you are a man: silencing women's agency to voice violence against women

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dc.citation.epage10en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber57en_US
dc.contributor.authorAkyüz, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSayan-Cengiz, F.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T10:52:19Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T10:52:19Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study traces the relation between male violence and masculinist norms that attribute political agency exclusively to men. Through critical analysis of a recent campaign initiated as an effort to fight violence against women in Turkey by addressing men as the only agents endowed with agency to solve the problem, we explore the ways in which this discourse risks marginalizing women who seek empowerment through women's solidarity. We uncover three patterns: (1) the assumption of a "cultural particularity" in Turkey nested in the traditional family structure which should allegedly be left unquestioned; (2) glorification of values attributed to the masculine; (3) taking violence as an individual problem of "anger management." We argue that this campaign is inimical to the aim it declares because by marginalizing feminist efforts to question the social and structural patterns of male violence, it deprives women of political agency essential in the struggle against this problem. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.wsif.2016.03.004en_US
dc.identifier.issn0277-5395
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/36758
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherPergamon Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.03.004en_US
dc.source.titleWomen's Studies International Forumen_US
dc.subjectEmpowermenten_US
dc.subjectFamily structureen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectGender issueen_US
dc.subjectMarginalizationen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectWomens statusen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleOvercome your anger if you are a man: silencing women's agency to voice violence against womenen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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