Feminist Explanations: Male Power, Hostility, and Sexual Coercion

[ish mailian]

It discusses rape as a power-motivated crime, male dominance and sexual
coercion, sexual coercion as a learned social control of women, pornography
as the cultural eroticization of sexual coercion, and sexual coercion as
sexual terrorism. The feminist analysis defines sexual coercion as
power-motivated and upholding a system of male dominance. The nature of
sexual coercion as socially-constructed, learned behavior is linked to
socialization influences that affect males, particularly pornography. A
definition of the feminist approach to sexual coercion has three
components: acknowledgment of the gender differential in power;
acknowledgment of how these disparities in power affect all social
interactions between women and men as well as individual behavior and
psychological issues; and acknowledgment of the principle of hegemonic
control. A discussion of sexual coercion as sexual terrorism concludes the
chapter. Sexual terrorism is defined as a system by which males frighten,
thereby controlling and dominating, females. Sexual terrorism has five
components: ideology, propaganda, indiscriminate and amoral violence,
voluntary compliance, and society's perception of the terrorist and the
terrorized.



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