Dutton D G
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia.
Violence Vict. 1994 Summer;9(2):167-82.
A critical review is made of feminist analyses of wife assault postulating that patriarchy is a direct cause of wife assault. Data are reviewed from a variety of studies indicating that (a) lesbian battering is more frequent than heterosexual battering, (b) no direct relationship exists between power and violence within couples, and (c) no direct relationship exists between structural patriarchy and wife assault. It is concluded that patriarchy must interact with psychological variables in order to account for the great variation in power-violence data. It is suggested that some forms of psychopathology may lead to some men adopting patriarchal ideology to justify and rationalize their own pathology.
对将父权制视为妻子受虐直接原因的女权主义对妻子受虐分析进行了批判性审视。回顾了来自各种研究的数据，这些数据表明：（a）女同性恋者间的暴力行为比异性恋者间的暴力行为更频繁；（b）夫妻间的权力与暴力之间不存在直接关系；（c）结构性父权制与妻子受虐之间不存在直接关系。得出的结论是，父权制必须与心理变量相互作用，才能解释权力-暴力数据中的巨大差异。有人提出，某些形式的精神病理学可能导致一些男性采用父权制意识形态来为自己的病态行为辩护并使其合理化。
