Dominance and entitlement: The rhetoric men use to discuss their violence towards women

Discourse & Society

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 387-406

  Adams, Peter J ^a   Towns, Alison ^a   Gavey, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ambiguity; dominance; feminism; gender; markers; metaphor; metonymy; rhetoric; synecdoche; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973849009     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926595006003006     Document Type: Article

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