The United Nations [1] estimates that one in three women has been beaten or sexually abused in their lifetime and that this violence against women (VAW) is present in both highly developed and less developed countries. While men’s VAW is one of our greatest social problems, research on VAW is generally polarized. Psychological research tends to explain violence at the individual level and, ther...

This paper challenges the asymmetries of power reproduced in Prime Minister John Howard’s announcement of the Northern Territory Emergency Response. Specifically, I argue that Howard enacts and extends Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s (2004) possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty. His language not only constructs white men as the owners of the ‘Australian’ nation-state but with the suspensi...

An explosion of new data sources describing historical family composition is opening unprecedented opportunities for discovery and analysis. The new data will allow comparative multilevel analysis of spatial patterns and will support studies of the transformation of living arrangements over the past 200 years. Using measurement methods that assess family choices at the individual level and anal...

This study discusses, through bibliographic research, the recurrence of naturalization as basis for the medicalization of the female body, as a means of social control through biological reproduction, whereby behavioral standards, social class, ethnic and race differences are rearranged/redefined. Through this process, male patriarchal and class predominance is maintained and the rift of social...

Housing shortages in Yugoslav cities were a perennial concern for authorities and citizens alike. They disproportionately affected Yugoslav workers who as a consequence were the demographic most likely to independently construct a family home. This article explores how informal builders justified home construction in moral terms, legitimizing it on the basis of physical labour that was invested...

The General Election Commissions Regulation No. 7 of 2013 states that in submitting a list candidates for political parties, women must include at least 30% each electoral district. This is intended to minimize the dominance men power, especially Legislature. due fact condition politics still considered marginalized when compared position men. because system culture, education, economic level a...

Patriarchal and sexist discourses have come under scorching attacks from most feminist writers since the advent of modern feminism. This work analyses Toni Morrison’s attempt at deconstructing patriarchal in The Bluest Eye Sula. It adds its voice to ever vibrant conversation on issue patriarchy sexism especially as portrayed works African American female who see their stories twice-told tales -...

This paper critically examines the experiences of women in heterosexual intimate relationships. It aims to understand how negotiate social structures family, marriage choice, and community through Young are challenging gendered power relations, traditional family structures, norms their everyday lives. By this, challenge old patriarchy, caste system, control sexuality. A qualitative research de...