Domestic Violence and Feminist Theory: An Analysis

This essay examines the relationship between domestic violence against women and feminist theory, highlighting the increasing number of domestic violence cases worldwide. It discusses how feminist theory, despite aiming to establish gender equality, can inadvertently contribute to domestic violence due to loosely framed definitions and misinterpretations of gender roles. The essay also acknowledges the feminist theory's efforts to address gender-based violence and empower women but points out the drawbacks related to its practical implementation. It concludes that domestic violence has severe consequences on women's health and emphasizes the need for a more nuanced understanding of gender dynamics to effectively address domestic violence issues. Desklib provides access to similar essays and solved assignments.

Running Head: Domestic Women Violations
Women Violation
Report
System04104
5/22/2019

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Introduction
Domestic violations against woman are one of the serious social problems in society.
Domestic violation is not only limited to physical abuse or fight between couples in home;
rather it is more than these things (Borges, 2017). It has adverse psychological and mental
effect on the health of women and other family members including children as well. This
report shows the relationship between the domestic women violation and feminist theory.
This thesis also shows the drawbacks of the feminist theory in which many false and wrong
explanations about women and their role in society may leads to domestic violations with
women. This thesis report includes the various wrong and false perceptions of men in the
society towards the women. It also shows the various causes and nature of the domestic
violence against women and physical impairment.
Thesis statement
Domestic violations and its relationship with Feminist theory
The root of domestic violations is somewhere related with the feminist theory. Feminist
theory shows the inequality between genders and it also explores the constitution of gender.
The feminist theory examines the roles of both women and men in the society and try to
establish equality in gender, but the success or effectiveness of this theory still under
consideration of many authors and researchers (Gimenez, 2016).
Reason to choose this topic
The main reason to choose this topic is increasing numbers of domestic women violation in
all over the world. The another reason behind selecting this topic is that it has been found that
there is still many social and cultural difference in the society which offer partiality between
men and women.
Relationship between domestic violence against women and Feminist
theory
Large number of women is facing domestic violations with their partner or other families’
members. It is one of the growing social issues in Asian and American countries. Large

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number of people such as academics, policy makers, and criminal justice experts pays
attention to increasing number of cases of domestic violations in all over the world. The
material feminist theory and its dominant approaches is the another reason that helps to the
conceptualising the domestic violence (Grabe, 2018). Many authors and social workers are
not satisfied with the traditional approach of society towards women. However, the liberal
feminism type of points in the feminist theory focuses on the disparity in social surroundings
as the basis for the women’s domination. The feminist theory is even trying to establish
equality between men and women, but somewhere it is failed to create this type of mentality
in society. It is the main reason behind selecting the thesis topic (Wendt, 2016).
There are number of words use in feminist theory to articulate the gendered violence
including intimate partner violence, gender based violence, domestic violence, violation
against the women etc. The feminist theory focuses on physical and sexual violence and
shows various guidelines to avoid the domestic women violations from the society. Although
the feminist theory try to support the women in the society and provide them equal rights but
the implementations of its suggestion still under practice and not entirely adopted by the
society. The feminist theory also addresses the problem of gender inequalities in the society
(Barnett, Sligar, and Wang, 2018). The gender-based violence (GVD) is a common issue in
the society and it has been also addressed in the feminist theory. However, the major
drawbacks of feminist theory related to domestic violations are its loosed framed definitions
that do not represent the sound theory (Solanki and Gangoli, 2016). However, there is no
theoretical basis for describing the domestic violations in the feminist theory. Instead of this,
the definitions and explanations related to women violations widen the gap between females
and males, which further leads to other problematic issues related to gender roles and
identities. However, the feminist theory also explains that which type of power and privilege
a woman may have and how she can exercise her power to avoid the domestic violence in her
house or with his husband or other family members (Bunch, 2018).
Conclusion
In conclusion, there are so many bad consequences of domestic women violations on the
women’s mental and physical health. The domestic women violations not only affect the
health of women rather it also affects the health of children as well. However, the feminist
theory provides the equality in gender and helps to understand the different situation behind
the domestic violations, but it also leads to the several other domestic women violation issues

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and promote gender inequality because of its improper definitions of various terms related to
women and girls violations.

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