Citation

Schissel BERNARD. Violence Against Women 2000; 6(9): 960-986.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/10778010022182236

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article contends that male youth violence against female youth is a formidable social problem that originates largely within the confines of patriarchal/profit-driven culture. Many factors that cause young men to be aggressive and abusive to young women originate within cultures of achievement such as sports, where aggression is equated with success and where girls and women are literally and figuratively relegated to exploited or denigrated positions. Using both an empirically based causal analysis of youth in Canada and a more descriptive analysis of several male contexts, the author tests and describes how personal and interpersonal experiences influence aggression toward young women and how these experiences often arise in contexts that are both ideological and profit driven.