%0 Journal Article
%A Santoro, Chiara
%A Martinez-Ferrer, Belen
%A Monreal-Gimeno, M Carmen
%A Musitu Ochoa, Gonzalo
%T New Directions for Preventing Dating Violence in Adolescence: The Study of Gender Models
%D 2018
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10433/5644
%X Dating violence is a huge transcultural and alarming phenomenon, directly linkedwith endless discrimination against women. The latest research on dating violence inadolescence shows how dating violence is persistent and common in the adolescentperiod as well and pinpoints the origin of gender violence from first adolescentrelationships. This element takes us to considerate how recent gender violence studiesand policies, increased also thanks to international efforts on this issue, are notbringing expected results, especially among young people. This mini-review aims toanalyze the main characteristics of current gender studies and policies on datingviolence, focusing on percentages with a woman-centered approach, which stressesthe consequences of gender violence. Other gender studies, that consider gender asa relational product, stress the importance of integrating the analysis of gender modelsas a key instrument to understand the main causes of dating violence, providing newelements to develop effective policies against dating violence. Indeed, gender modelsof femininity and masculinity are based on a binary system, which is also a reciprocalrecognition and identity system: gender models define female and male characteristics,roles, stereotypes, and expectation, being complementary and foreclosing at the sametime. Recent studies on gender relationships, especially among the youth, allows usto propose a new dialog between dating violence studies and gender model studies,underling the need of a complete and complex understanding of gender structure, andof its tensions and contradictions, to put an end to gender and dating violence, througheffective programs.
%K Dating violence
%K Adolescence
%K Gender models
%K Gender policies
%K Prevention
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