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The Myths of Violence

Gender, Conflict, and Community in El Salvador

Bibliographic Data

ID4501547
AuthorsMo Hume (0000-0002-5716-6672, University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue5
Pages59-76
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x08321957
OpenAlexW4245099244
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited30

Empirical data gathered in El Salvador indicate that knowledge about violence there is built upon an exclusionary and highly masculinist logic. Violence has come to be perceived as normal through a political project that has actively employed terror to pursue its ends. This process has been made possible by a legitimization of violence as a key element of male gender identity. Political circumstances in El Salvador, principally the war, have both nourished and reinforced a sense of gender identity based on polarization, exclusion, and hegemony

Art · Criminology · Element (criminal law) · Hegemony · Identity (music) · Mythology · Polarization (electrochemistry) · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Political Conflict and Governance

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