Sexual Violence, Monoacculturation and the Mechanisms of Patriarchal Violence (original) (raw)

2002, Women’s Worlds Congress, Uganda

Gendered violence has in recent years established itself as one of the most pressing issues of the international women's movement, now also taken up by the Nordic countries. The purpose of my paper is to expose the roots of multilevel violence in socialization based on monoacculturation and the patriarchal master imaginary. We cannot tackle the psycho-social underpinnings of violence unless we recognize the mechanisms of power and violence in all of their subtlety and discursive manifestations. The relations of domination and subordination at the global, macro and microsocial levels of society make possible the global systems of inequalities in power. Since gendered, ethnocultural and species-related politics of domination and violence go together, it is important to recognize all of the conscious, unconscious, tacit and discursive formations of power.

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