The Silenced Gender Paradigm

A review of 20 articles (with a collective N of 16,463) was conducted assessing reasons given by perpetrators for their commission of intimate partner violence (IPV). College, community, and batterer intervention program samples were used. Five studies used Follingstad's (1991) Motivation and Effects Questionnaire to assess reported motivations. This had an advantage in standardizing the definitions of motives, which varied widely in other studies. Perpetrators of IPV, whether male or female, do not describe their motives in gender-political terms. Instead, they describe them in psychological terms, such as anger, frustration, or gaining attention. The most frequently endorsed reasons were anger (68% by women, 47% by men) and gaining attention (53% by women, 55% by men). Self-defense was the least endorsed (7th of seven motives). The implications of this finding for the gender paradigm are discussed.

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Infants can use distributional cues to form syntactic categories

Journal of Child Language ◽

10.1017/s0305000904006786 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 249-268 ◽

Cited By ~ 137

Author(s):

LOUANN GERKEN ◽

RACHEL WILSON ◽

WILLIAM LEWIS

Keyword(s):

Language Development ◽

Language Learning ◽

Learning Process ◽

Category Structure ◽

Verb Phrase ◽

Gender Category ◽

Distributional Cues ◽

American Children ◽

Gender Paradigm ◽

Do So

Nearly all theories of language development emphasize the importance of distributional cues for segregating words and phrases into syntactic categories like noun, feminine or verb phrase. However, questions concerning whether such cues can be used to the exclusion of referential cues have been debated. Using the headturn preference procedure, American children aged 1;5 were briefly familiarized with a partial Russian gender paradigm, with a subset of the paradigm members withheld. During test, infants listened on alternate trials to previously withheld grammatical items and ungrammatical items with incorrect gender markings on previously heard stems. Across three experiments, infants discriminated new grammatical from ungrammatical items, but like adults in previous studies, were only able to do so when a subset of familiarization items was double marked for gender category. The results suggest that learners can use distributional cues to category structure, to the exclusion of referential cues, from relatively early in the language learning process.

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Tearing down the gender paradigm in favour of families

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e504702009-001 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Tonia L. Nicholls

Keyword(s):

Gender Paradigm

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Overcoming Gender? Transsexualism and the Gender Paradigm

10.18130/v3hv2b ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Erin Calhoun Davis

Keyword(s):

Gender Paradigm

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Corrigendum to “The gender paradigm in domestic violence research and theory: Part 1—The conflict of theory and data”

Aggression and Violent Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.avb.2005.10.001 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 664 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Donald G. Dutton ◽

Tonia L. Nicholls

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Gender Paradigm

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The Gender Paradigm and the Architecture of Antiscience

Partner Abuse ◽

10.1891/1946-6560.1.1.5 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 5-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Donald G. Dutton

Keyword(s):

Partner Violence ◽

Western Europe ◽

Belief System ◽

Data Sets ◽

Psychoeducational Groups ◽

Court Mandated ◽

Gender Paradigm ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Contradictory Data ◽

Instrumental Reasons

The gender paradigm is the view that most domestic violence (DV) is maleperpetrated against females (and children) in order to maintain patriarchy. Based on functionalist sociology, it has been the prominent DV perspective in North America and Western Europe, framing criminal justice policy to DV, court understanding of DV, court disposition of DV perpetrators to psychoeducational groups, and custody decisions. Research evidence contradicts every major tenet of this belief system: female DV is more frequent than male DV, even against nonviolent partners, there is no overall relationship of control to DV, and abuse perpetrators who use intimate partner violence (IPV) for coercive instrumental reasons are both male and female. Research supporting the gender paradigm is typically based on self-selected samples (victims from women’s shelters and men from court-mandated groups) and then inappropriately generalized to community populations. The gender paradigm is a closed system, unresponsive to major disconfirming data sets, and takes an antiscience stance consistent with a cult. In this article, I compare the responses of this gender cult to other cults and contrast it with a scientific response to contradictory data.

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Illusion of Inclusion: The Failure of the Gender Paradigm to Account for Intimate Partner Violence in LGBT Relationships

Partner Abuse ◽

10.1891/1946-6560.6.1.65 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 65-77 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Claire Cannon

Keyword(s):

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Treatment Options ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Female Perpetrators ◽

Bisexual And Transgender ◽

Normative Expectations ◽

Perpetrators And Victims ◽

Gender Paradigm

This article examines the intimate partner violence (IPV) literature, particularly scholarship of the gender paradigm, for a heteronormative bias—normative expectations, constraints, and demands of heterosexuality. Beginning with a critique of the gender paradigm’s framing of IPV as an extension of patriarchy that assumes a male perpetuator and female victim, this article moves to examine research on female perpetrators to gain insight on alternative arrangements of perpetrators and victims. Next, this article analyzes heteronormative biases implicit in policy implications and intervention services of the dominant gender paradigm theoretical framework. Finally, we discuss treatment options for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender perpetrators, with suggestions for future services.

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The Conflict Of Interest About Gender Paradigm In West Sumatera

Ar-Raniry International Journal of Islamic Studies ◽

10.20859/jar.v2i1.29 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Reza Fahmi

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Conflict Of Interest ◽

Future Generations ◽

Returning Home ◽

The Future ◽

Gender Paradigm

The Minangs are the world's largest matrilineal society; properties such as land and houses are inherited through female lineage. Some scholars argue that this might have caused the diaspora(Minangkabau, "merantau") of Minangkabau males throughout the Maritime Southeast Asia to become scholars or to seek fortune as merchants. However, the native Minangkabaus agreed that this matrilineal culture is indeed the result of (not the reason for) diaspora. With their men travelling out of the country for unspecified time (with possibility of some of them not returning home), it is only logical to hand the land and property to those who do not have to leave it: The women. This also ensures the women's (meaning: mothers of the future generations') welfare and hence ensuring their offsprings welfare. Besides, native MinangKabaus argue that "Men can live anywhere and hence they do not need a house like women do". Abstrak: Masyarakat Minangkabau merupakan masyarakat matrilineal terbesar di dunia; di mana kepemilikan seperti tanah dan rumah diwariskan melalui garis keturunan ibu. Beberapa ilmuan masih berdebat dikarenakan diaspora (Minangkabau, “merantau”) dari lelaki Minang ke berbagai daerah di wilayah Asia tenggara sebagai usaha untuk mencari keuntungan melalui kegiatan perdagangan. Walau bagaimanapun, masyarakat asli Minangkabau sependapat bahwa, budaya matrilinial menjadi penyebab utama diaspora tersebut. Dengan bepergiannya para kaum pria untuk merantau dalam jangka waktu yang tidak dapat dipastikan (bahkan terkadang mereka tidak pulang kampung), itu lebih disebakan oleh ketiadaan kepemilikan tanah dan rumah yang telah dijelaskan di atas. Inu juga dapandang sebagai masa depan sebuah generasi. Selanjutnya ada pandangan bahwa, lelaki. dapat hidup atau tinggal di mana saja dan mereka tidak membutuhkan rumah seperti kaum perempuan yang membutuhkannya.

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