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6 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses feminist, psychodynamic and cognitive behavior theories in relation to treating domestic violence offenders. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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of what is missing from a patriarchal society. That domestic violence is an offensive action instigated by a man toward a woman speaks to the nature of gender oppression
where there exists no sense of freedom or consent. The issues of gender, patriarchy and sexual violence are inextricably intertwined within the complexities of social existence; that women have
always had to confirm their worth as human beings serves as a significant indicator to the overwhelming oppression thrust upon the female gender by means of physical and emotional abuse,
"the most blatant manifestations of patriarchy" (Mananzan, 1995, pp. 64-70) that has no respect for race, color, class or nationality. "As men on the street lose their former authoritarian
power in the household, they lash out against the women and children they can no longer control. Men are not accepting the new rights and roles that women are
obtaining; instead, they are desperately attempting to reassert their grandfathers lost autocratic control over their households and over public space" (DeKesseredy et al, 1999, p. 499). Therefore, the very
infrastructure of feminist intervention is to acknowledge and validate the inequitable struggle women have had with their male counterparts and how that relationship is responsible for such behaviors as domestic
violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occurrences, it provides a basis upon which men can learn to appreciate and respect the female gender.
The Duluth curriculum takes this approach by way of its recognition that men - as cultural beings - can change because abusive behavior is cultural, not inherent to human
behavior. II. PSYCHODYNAMIC The psychodynamic approach associates the unconscious and its functioning with an assembly of archetypal symbols that inevitably guides the
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