56866Department of African and General Studies, SD-Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana.
Department of Community Development, Faculty of Planning and Land Management, 128415SD-Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana.
Violence Against Women. 2023 Mar;29(3-4):705-725. doi: 10.1177/10778012221083332. Epub 2022 May 9.
In this article, our aim is to foreground men's discourses on gender-based violence as linked to gendered hierarchies, power struggles, and social respectability in Ghana. Situated within decolonial feminist theories and drawing on interviews, we argue that men's interpretations of masculinity and the possibility of perpetrating violence against women is significantly mediated by such intersectional factors as sociocultural background, education, and broader societal normative requirements. The findings deepen the understanding of the ambiguities and contradictions that characterize men's talk of violence. The article discusses how these ambiguities and contradictions serve as important domains for engendering critical attitudes toward violence against women.
在本文中，我们的目的是突显加纳男性关于基于性别的暴力的论述与性别等级制度、权力斗争和社会声誉的联系。本文立足于后殖民女性主义理论，并借鉴了访谈内容，我们认为，男性对男子气概的解释以及对暴力侵害妇女行为的可能性，受到社会文化背景、教育程度和更广泛的社会规范要求等交叉因素的显著影响。研究结果深化了对男性谈论暴力的模糊性和矛盾性的理解。本文讨论了这些模糊性和矛盾性如何成为对暴力侵害妇女行为产生批判性态度的重要领域。
