Domestic violence is a rising epidemic and is also plays a large part in the feminist movement. “Women abuse is viewed here as a historical expression of male domination manifested within a family and currently reinforced by the institutions, economic, arrangements, and division of labor within a capitalist society.” (hooks, 2000) This quote explains how the oppression of women is influenced within the workplace and how it travels into the home. Hooks speaks about how males are submissive to their bosses at work but automatically possess the dominant role at home because they yearn to speak to their boss or treat their boss the way that they treat the lady of the house but won’t do so because the male has a fear of losing their job. Men continuously
