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Violence to Control Women’s Sexuality

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Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

Synonyms

Intimate partner violence; Sexual coercion

Definition

Physical, psychological, or sexual violence employed by men that, ultimately, functions to increase the mating success of the perpetrator and/or decreases the likelihood of a woman copulating with other men; Manifest psychology and behavior to prevent, correct, or anticipate female infidelity.

Introduction

Psychological perspectives on violence against women, broadly understood, maintain that violence may be employed to control women’s sexuality. The ultimate motivations underpinning men’s violence as a means to control women’s sexuality, however, differ across subdisciplines of psychology. Mainstream standard social science perspectives posit that violence perpetrated by men against women is motivated by men’s attempts to dominate and control their partners, more generally, and that this expression of dominance is, ultimately, a learned behavior that is the product of men’s social roles (Ali and Naylor 2013). An...

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 654 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, MI, 483409, USA

    Nicole Barbaro

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Melissa McDonald

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Barbaro, N. (2017). Violence to Control Women’s Sexuality. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_898-1

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