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Cultural Industries and Symbolic Violence: Practices and Discourses that Perpetuate Inequality

Year: 2014

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Symbolic violence is an analytical category that permits the discovery of practices that contribute to the reproduction of violence against women. However, due to the subtlety of these practices and the disposition of the oppressed group towards complicity as an effect that is incorporated within the same domination, it becomes difficult to perceive them as oppressive. This concealment of the message of cultural industries and its discourse, based on the sublimation of stereotypes, tolerance towards certain types of aggression and the legitimization of certain power relations, finally constructs a discriminatory message that becomes a breeding ground for violence against women.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.12.011

Author: María Isabel Menéndez-Menéndez

Institution: Universidad de Burgos

Language: English

Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Universidad de Burgos, Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, European Social Fund