Gender, Violence and Law


https://doi.org/10.4081/wpph.2014.6736
Vol. 3 (2014)
Submitted: 11 July 2016
Accepted: 11 July 2016
Published: 15 June 2014
gender, violence
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Considering law-gender and law-violence relationships, Lucinda Joy Peach (2004) argues that law is male gendered in a way in which it is forged and written by men (Peach, 2004 p. 62) and also that it does not just ‘control violence outside but that law itself is a source of violence’ (Sarat and Kearns in Peach, 2004 p. 65). Taking a step forward the idea of law as male-biased and itself violent, the author also claims that law provides a perception that violence is male (Peach, 2004 p. 67); so, the direct consequence is that law treats men and women in a different way and th at men are seen as active actors of violence while women are considered as mere passive and fragile victims and not as possible perpetrators of violence.

Piantato, G., & Piantato, E. (2014). Gender, Violence and Law. Working Paper of Public Health, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/wpph.2014.6736

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