Facing

Facing

Patriarchy challenges current thinking about

men's violence against women. Drawing upon radical and intersectional feminist

theory and critical masculinity studies, the book locates men's violence within

the structures and processes of patriarchy. Addressing the limitations of

current violence prevention policies, Bob Pease argues that a nuanced

conceptualisation of patriarchy, that accounts for a variety of patriarchal

structures, intersections with other forms of inequality, patriarchal ideologies,

men's peer group relations, men's sexist practices and the construction of

patriarchal subjectivities, is required to understand the links between gender

and men's violence against women.

Pease shows that men's violence against

women needs to be understood in the context of other forms of men's violence,

including violence against boys and other men, in the involvement of men in

wars and conflicts between nations and men's ecologically destructive practices

which constitute a form of slow violence. With crucial implications for

priorities in violence prevention, gender equality promotion and in strategies

for engaging men in this work, Facing

Patriarchy offers new hope for the elimination of men's violence.

This is an essential book for scholars,

practitioners, activists and policy makers involved in violence prevention in

national and international contexts.