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LA VIOLENCIA CONTRA LAS MUJERES COMO PRUEBA DE MASCULINIDAD. REFLEXIONES SOCIO-CRIMINOLÓGICAS
2021
Research typically employs essentialist and static representations of masculinity to deal with of male violence against women. Masculinity is thereby linked to pre-social phenomena, naturalized categories, and to identity configurations that are defined as dangerous, due to biological, ethno-racial or class characteristics/configurations. Conversely, a sociologically oriented critical criminology concerned in the relationship between masculinity and crime should interrogate the ways in which, at the social level, committing a deviant or criminal conduct is intertwined with achieving male status and power. We will thus re-read the issue of violence against women as a male problem, that is, a…