New Directions for Preventing Dating Violence in Adolescence: The Study of Gender Models
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Santoro, Chiara; Martinez-Ferrer, Belen


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dating violenceadolescence
gender models
gender policies
prevention
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2018-06-12Abstract
Dating violence is a huge transcultural and alarming phenomenon, directly linked
with endless discrimination against women. The latest research on dating violence in
adolescence shows how dating violence is persistent and common in the adolescent
period as well and pinpoints the origin of gender violence from first adolescent
relationships. This element takes us to considerate how recent gender violence studies
and policies, increased also thanks to international efforts on this issue, are not
bringing expected results, especially among young people. This mini-review aims to
analyze the main characteristics of current gender studies and policies on dating
violence, focusing on percentages with a woman-centered approach, which stresses
the consequences of gender violence. Other gender studies, that consider gender as
a relational product, stress the importance of integrating the analysis of gender models
as a key instrument to understand the main causes of dating violence ...
Dating violence is a huge transcultural and alarming phenomenon, directly linked
with endless discrimination against women. The latest research on dating violence in
adolescence shows how dating violence is persistent and common in the adolescent
period as well and pinpoints the origin of gender violence from first adolescent
relationships. This element takes us to considerate how recent gender violence studies
and policies, increased also thanks to international efforts on this issue, are not
bringing expected results, especially among young people. This mini-review aims to
analyze the main characteristics of current gender studies and policies on dating
violence, focusing on percentages with a woman-centered approach, which stresses
the consequences of gender violence. Other gender studies, that consider gender as
a relational product, stress the importance of integrating the analysis of gender models
as a key instrument to understand the main causes of dating violence, providing new
elements to develop effective policies against dating violence. Indeed, gender models
of femininity and masculinity are based on a binary system, which is also a reciprocal
recognition and identity system: gender models define female and male characteristics,
roles, stereotypes, and expectation, being complementary and foreclosing at the same
time. Recent studies on gender relationships, especially among the youth, allows us
to propose a new dialog between dating violence studies and gender model studies,
underling the need of a complete and complex understanding of gender structure, and
of its tensions and contradictions, to put an end to gender and dating violence, through
effective programs.