Publications

Publication details [#26958]

Adams, Peter J., Alison Towns and Nicola Gavey. 1995. Dominance and entitlement: The rhetoric men use to discuss their violence towards women. Discourse & Society 6 (3) : 387–406.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | dominance | gender | interview | men's language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis demonstrates how rhetoric devices can engender male dominance and power discourses and how these discourses can in turn resource, justify and camouflage men's violence towards women.