{"id":12126,"date":"2021-05-01T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T09:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2023-04-11T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:56:32","slug":"how-to-control-your-woman-patriarchy-and-power-how-socialisation-underpins-abusive-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/how-to-control-your-woman-patriarchy-and-power-how-socialisation-underpins-abusive-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How to control your woman\u2019 Patriarchy and power: how socialisation underpins abusive behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018How to control your woman\u2019 Patriarchy and power: how socialisation underpins abusive behaviour<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Sociology: Paper I: Systems of Kinship:<\/strong> <strong>Patriarchy and sexual division of labour <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Sociology paper II: Violence against women.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>G.S paper I: Society and social issues<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb471c4fa-e96a-4744-a4b7-8a386fa1083a_358x395.jpeg\" alt=\"Why does patriarchy persist? (Part 2)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Context:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The study looked at Google searches in the US that was focused on six areas of interest&#8211;precarity and insecurity, despondency and helplessness, indicative male violence, and intentional male violence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several surveys have shown a spike in\u00a0<strong>domestic abuse<\/strong>\u00a0cases amid the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic, with gender violence reaching an all-time. The same has been corroborated by a recent study that found that people even Googled similar topics in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>As per the study, the results showed a spike from 31 to 106 per cent in 2020.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>\u201cHow to control your woman\u201d and \u201chow to hit a woman so no one knows\u201d were each googled 165 million times.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Male violence was indicated in many search results. \u201cHe will kill me\u201d was Googled 107 million times, \u201che beats me up\u201d was searched 320 million times. Besides, \u201chelp me, he won\u2019t leave\u201d was googled 1.22 billion times.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEach one of these \u2018rounded\u2019 numbers results from a person in putting these search terms into the web engine.<\/li>\n<li>These figures are presented in full form because I did not want to lessen the visual impact of each individual entry into the search engine.<\/li>\n<li>Hundreds of millions of people are looking online for help and I wanted to reflect this COVID-19 reality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coercive control is a very particular kind of domestic abuse.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s not a \u201creaction\u201d to stress, nor is it triggered by alcohol or drugs.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s an ongoing system of control, in which the abusive partner seeks to override their partner\u2019s autonomy and destroy their sense of self.<\/li>\n<li>The end game \u2013 whether the perpetrator knowingly sets out to achieve it \u2013 is to make their partner entirely subordinate; a \u201cwilling slave\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Mohammad-Asoodeh\/publication\/233747842\/figure\/tbl3\/AS:670013686034436@1536755119098\/Characteristics-of-Patriarchal-Families.png\" alt=\"Characteristics of Patriarchal Families | Download Table\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong><u>It\u2019s the total mental dislocation of coercive control \u2013 which Amnesty International has classified as torture \u2013 that is the hardest thing to recover from.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many women don\u2019t know they are experiencing abuse until they are already in situations that are incredibly dangerous \u2013 partly because coercive control is so poorly understood, but also because the perpetrator makes it invisible.<\/li>\n<li>By the time victims realise the danger they\u2019re in, many believe no system will ever be powerful enough to keep them safe. If they do report to police \u2013 if something reportable actually occurs \u2013 they are making a terrifying gamble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Will they get an officer who\u2019s sympathetic and proactive? Will reporting their partner make him more dangerous? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What if child protection gets involved? What if he contests for custody? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are absolutely no guarantees that they (or their children) will be protected.<\/li>\n<li>Their suspicion that the system is not powerful enough to protect them is too often correct.<\/li>\n<li>The justice system is not only full of holes; too often it actively colludes with the perpetrator (especially the family law system).<\/li>\n<li>So they stay, even after they want to leave, and know it\u2019s dangerous. They stay because it may be even more dangerous to leave.<\/li>\n<li>Until the justice system properly assesses\u00a0<em>and responds\u00a0<\/em>to risk, and as long as women are made to be responsible for their own safety, we will continue to see an intractable domestic homicide rate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slideplayer.com\/slide\/13787597\/85\/images\/48\/Features+of+patriarchy.jpg\" alt=\"Many faces of inequality - ppt download\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>How do some men come to feel so entitled to their power over women?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thousands of years of patriarchy has laid pretty good groundwork for this \u2013 and it\u2019s not so long since a wife was considered her husband\u2019s property, and had no legal rights whatsoever.<\/li>\n<li>It was only in the 1980s that new laws against marital rape recognised that men didn\u2019t have the right to demand sex with their wives anytime they wanted; prior to that, consent was considered to have been given on the wedding day and never revoked.<\/li>\n<li>Today, we still live in a society that entrenches women\u2019s subordination at every level \u2013 from the home, to the boardroom, to our parliament. Even in the courtroom, as we see so often.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong><u>As the Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman writes: \u201cThe legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men.\u201d I\u2019m sure any survivor reading this will know exactly what she\u2019s talking about.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><u>Men don\u2019t abuse women because society tells them it\u2019s OK. Men abuse women because society tells them they are entitled to be in control. <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In fact, society says that if they are\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>in control, they won\u2019t succeed \u2013 they won\u2019t get the girl, they won\u2019t get the money, and they will be vulnerable to the violence and control of other men.<\/li>\n<li>It says that if they fail to assert themselves like \u201creal men\u201d, they will end up poor and alone.<\/li>\n<li>But we don\u2019t just see men being entitled to power over their partners; some women identify with this, too.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s because \u201chaving power over\u201d is valued within patriarchy \u2013 much more for men than it is for women \u2013 but nevertheless, it is regarded generally as a sign of strength to claim power over others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/english-151130183935-lva1-app6891\/95\/patriarchy-in-society-6-638.jpg?cb=1448908923\" alt=\"Patriarchy in Society\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><u>Origins of the Concept\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.slideplayer.com\/24\/6975982\/slides\/slide_10.jpg\" alt=\"Sex And Gender. Issues of sex and gender When we consider how females and males differ, we think of sex; the biological characteristics. Primary sex characteristics. - ppt download\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ideas of male dominance have a very long history, with many religions presenting it as natural and necessary.<\/li>\n<li>The first theoretical account of patriarchy is found in Engels theory of women\u2019s subservience under capitalism.<\/li>\n<li>He argued that capitalism resulted in power being concentrated in the hands of fewer people which intensified the oppression of women as men passed on their wealth to their male heirs.<\/li>\n<li>The main source of patriarchal theory stems from\u00a0Feminism, which developed the concept in the 1960s, highlighting how the public-private divide and the norm of women being confined to the domestic sphere was the main source of male dominance and female oppression, highlighted by the famous Feminist slogan \u2018the personal is the political\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slideplayer.com\/slide\/14358144\/89\/images\/26\/Friedrich+Engel.jpg\" alt=\"Liberal Feminism Explore liberal feminist ideas about society. - ppt download\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Subsequent Feminist theory and research explored how<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today, there is much disagreement over the concepts usefulness within the various different Feminist traditions (for the purposes of A-level sociology, typically divided up into Liberal, Marxist, Radical).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Meaning and Interpretation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The concept of Patriarchy forms the basis for radical forms of Feminism which has focused on how Patriarchy is reproduced in many different ways such as male violence against women, stereotypical representations in the media and even everyday sexism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sylvia Walby<\/strong> re-conceptualized Patriarchy in the 1990s, arguing that the concept failed to take account of increasing gender equality, but that it should still remain central to Feminist analysis, suggesting that there are\u00a0six structures of patriarchy: Paid Work, Household Production, Culture,\u00a0Sexuality, Violence and the State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>Walby also argued that analysis should distinguish between public and private forms of patriarchy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Critical Points<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The concept of patriarchy has been criticized from both outside and within Feminism.<\/p>\n<p>The concept itself has been criticized as being too abstract: it is difficult to pin it down and find specific mechanisms through which it operates.<\/p>\n<p>Many Feminists argue that Patriarchy exists in all cultures, and thus the concept itself is too general to be useful, as it fails to take account of how other factors such as class and ethnicity combine to oppress different women in different ways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/img\/80626619\/Master.jpg\" alt=\"When courts fall into the patriarchy trap - Times of India\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #99ccff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; 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