Facing
Patriarchy challenges current thinking about
men's violence against women. Drawing upon radical and intersectional feminist
theory and critical masculinity studies, the book locates men's violence within
the structures and processes of patriarchy. Addressing the limitations of
current violence prevention policies, Bob Pease argues that a nuanced
conceptualisation of patriarchy, that accounts for a variety of patriarchal
structures, intersections with other forms of inequality, patriarchal ideologies,
men's peer group relations, men's sexist practices and the construction of
patriarchal subjectivities, is required to understand the links between gender
and men's violence against women.



Pease shows that men's violence against
women needs to be understood in the context of other forms of men's violence,
including violence against boys and other men, in the involvement of men in
wars and conflicts between nations and men's ecologically destructive practices
which constitute a form of slow violence. With crucial implications for
priorities in violence prevention, gender equality promotion and in strategies
for engaging men in this work, Facing
Patriarchy offers new hope for the elimination of men's violence.



This is an essential book for scholars,
practitioners, activists and policy makers involved in violence prevention in
national and international contexts.