Gender equity, traditional masculine culture, and female homicide victimization

Pridemore, William Alex; Freilich, Joshua D.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2005.02.002

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“…Additional studies might also explore more fully the intersection of structural and ideological forces of gender systems in rural and urban areas. This research was solely concerned with structural conditions, but recent work in homicide studies have attempted to model ideology as well [43]. Gender equality measures need to be improved as well, capturing the relative position of males and females along several dimensions of social life.…”

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confidence: 99%

Female Status and Infant and Child Homicide Victimization in Rural and Urban Counties in the U.S.

Hunnicutt

2007

Gend. Issues

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Studies consistently show that female labor force participation is a correlate of infant and child homicide victimization. Research and theory supports the notion that as women's economic status improves, children are safer. Yet few existing studies make use of feminist perspectives to explain child homicide. Further, homicide studies have focused heavily on urban areas leaving a lacuna of understanding in the literature regarding rural areas. This study explores the connection between absolute and relative female economic status and infant and child homicide victimization in both rural and urban U.S. counties. Results show that absolute female economic status is positively associated with infant and child homicide in urban areas, but not in rural areas. I argue that in rural areas, stronger collective sentiment and less differentiation diminishes the effect of women's status on child homicide. While rural areas are characterized by harsh economic realities, these realities are nevertheless shared among men and women, decentering the link between child victimization and women status.

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confidence: 99%

Female Status and Infant and Child Homicide Victimization in Rural and Urban Counties in the U.S.

Hunnicutt

2007

Gend. Issues

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“…9 My review of the literature turned up 21 studies that test the predictive power of gender inequality on rates of violence against women at the aggregate level. In almost every case, gender equality is measured by socioeconomic indicators (austin & Young, 2000;avakame, 1998Bailey, 1999;Bailey & Peterson, 1995;Baron & Straus, 1987;DeWees & Parker, 2003;Dugan, Nagin, & Rosenfeld, 1999;ellis & Beattie, 1983;gartner, Baker, & Pampel, 1990;Levinson, 1989;Pridemore & Freilich, 2005;Stout, 1992;Titterington, 2006;Vieraitis, Britto, & Kovandzic, 2007;Vieraitis & Williams, 2002;Whaley, 2001;Whaley & Messner, 2002;Yllo & Straus, 1984). 10 as a whole, this body of research shows that Hunnicutt / Varieties of Patriarchy 561 the investigations into the relationship between structural gender inequality and violence against women are mixed, with the results showing that increases in gender equality either (a) are associated with the decrease of violence against women (i.e., as women's status improves, women are safer) or (b) result in higher rates of violence against women (i.e., as women gain equality with men, they are victimized at higher rates).…”

Section: The Disjunction Between Structural Inequality and Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Varieties of Patriarchy and Violence Against Women

Hunnicutt

2009

Violence Against Women

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Feminist scholars have produced abundant writings on violence against women, yet theory development has stagnated. The effort to construct a theory of patriarchy to explain violence against women was derailed by criticism. In this article, the author addresses some of these criticisms, uncovers the explanatory strengths of this concept, and lays some foundations for a more fully developed theory of violence against women. The concept of patriarchy holds promise for theorizing violence against women because it keeps the theoretical focus on dominance, gender, and power. It also anchors the problem of violence against women in social conditions, rather than individual attributes.

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“…9 Subscriptions to American Rifleman were obtained from the Audit Bureau of Circulation (2002). The measure of militia groups in each state was provided by the Anti-Defamation League (1994,1995) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (1995), which had been employed elsewhere both as an outcome variable for militia group strength (Freilich, 2003;O'Brien & Haider-Markel, 1998;Van Dyke & Soule, 2002) and as an independent variable representing the militant aspect of this subculture (Pridemore & Freilich, 2005). Farm job loss was as measured by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and is available from the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2003).…”

Section: New Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although this analysis was not designed to test the hypothesis specifically, no support was found for the former argument. Although the backlash argument of violence against women was not tested here, it had been tested elsewhere in relation to these theories (Pridemore & Freilich, 2005).…”

Section: New Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%