Domestic violence plays an enormous problem in society, specifically when there is no set explanation to why it occurs. By analyzing the role of hegemonic masculinity, patriarchy, and traditional gender roles as it pertains to domestic violence, this essay intends to expound on how the three interlace to perpetuate the domestic violence cycle. Hegemonic masculinity rose out of the post-World War II era as the idea of the “real man”, and the idea that the real man is not peaceful, nurturing, or indecisive, nor a sissy, crybaby, or loser” (Messner & Greemberg, 2015, p. 10). Rather, the “real man” is a man who is seen as someone who has the speed and strength of an athlete, as having a large income, authority, charm, loyalty for family, manual
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There are many examples than can demonstrate the use of these terms into everyday society to serve as explanations to domestic violence, historic concepts of traditional gender roles play a large part in the violence by men towards women. In an historic standpoint, men have ways they are supposed to act such as asserting their dominance. In a study conducted by Peralta and Tuttle, interviews where conducted with men who were convicted of intimate partner violence; in these interviews the men described their situations and some reasoning why they lashed out on their partner (2013). During the interviews a man named Jerry stated that to feel like a “man” you need to have money and a job because it’s a mans natural instinct to provide and when you’re not doing that it hurts your pride (Peralta & Tuttle, 2013, p. 264). This response demonstrates how a man believes he should present himself and how that can put stress on him and can cause him to become violent with his intimate partner, because it is the only way he can feel like a man. With other interviewees the problem focused on the ideology of traditional roles that women believe a man should have, or society, puts stress on the man when he or his partner feel …show more content…
265) This caused him to turn to violence against her, because she was the on perpetuating the incident by not letting him feel like a man. According to these factors Peralta and Tuttle concluded that it is clear that “control/domiance was intertwined with traditional constructions of masculinity, namely the inability to achieve hegemonic masculinity which results in violence” (2010, p. 271). These traditional roles also are similar as todays hegemonic masculinity and serves as many of the same gender “rules” such as a man should be tough and now week. Due to these concepts of masculinity Peralta and Tuttle state that men have the choice to adopt or approximate hegemonic masculinity or they can distance themselves from harmful forms of masculinity and expressions, however different factors can be expanded on what role a male choses (2010, p. 270). Looking at our society it is known that we live in an offspring of a patriarchy society, where men have the power in controlling different aspects in society due to the history of masculinity traditionally and hegemonic viewing them as leaders and aggressive. However with this becomes a powerful role in society considering that according to Umberson, Anderson,
There are many examples than can demonstrate the use of these terms into everyday society to serve as explanations to domestic violence, historic concepts of traditional gender roles play a large part in the violence by men towards women. In an historic standpoint, men have ways they are supposed to act such as asserting their dominance. In a study conducted by Peralta and Tuttle, interviews where conducted with men who were convicted of intimate partner violence; in these interviews the men described their situations and some reasoning why they lashed out on their partner (2013). During the interviews a man named Jerry stated that to feel like a “man” you need to have money and a job because it’s a mans natural instinct to provide and when you’re not doing that it hurts your pride (Peralta & Tuttle, 2013, p. 264). This response demonstrates how a man believes he should present himself and how that can put stress on him and can cause him to become violent with his intimate partner, because it is the only way he can feel like a man. With other interviewees the problem focused on the ideology of traditional roles that women believe a man should have, or society, puts stress on the man when he or his partner feel …show more content…
265) This caused him to turn to violence against her, because she was the on perpetuating the incident by not letting him feel like a man. According to these factors Peralta and Tuttle concluded that it is clear that “control/domiance was intertwined with traditional constructions of masculinity, namely the inability to achieve hegemonic masculinity which results in violence” (2010, p. 271). These traditional roles also are similar as todays hegemonic masculinity and serves as many of the same gender “rules” such as a man should be tough and now week. Due to these concepts of masculinity Peralta and Tuttle state that men have the choice to adopt or approximate hegemonic masculinity or they can distance themselves from harmful forms of masculinity and expressions, however different factors can be expanded on what role a male choses (2010, p. 270). Looking at our society it is known that we live in an offspring of a patriarchy society, where men have the power in controlling different aspects in society due to the history of masculinity traditionally and hegemonic viewing them as leaders and aggressive. However with this becomes a powerful role in society considering that according to Umberson, Anderson,