{"title":"Men, women and sexuality: A feminist critique of the sociology of deviance","authors":"Sue Rodmell","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)92918-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article critically examines a number of works by sociologists of deviance and locates three fundamental inadequacies regarding the nature of male sexual crimes against women. Firstly, there is a failure to distinguish those crimes which are deviant from those which are not; secondly, these writers ignore or trivialize the effects of male sexual crimes on their female victims; and thirdly, a world view is presented in which male sexual violence is recognized as a form of social control only in non-Western societies. The interactionist perspective, a strong current within the sociology of deviance, in particular subsumes heterosexual power structures within the overall context of mutual, consensual sexual relations. My discussion lends support to the claim that even radical sociology remains male-defined by situating the male actor at the centre of the analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 145-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)92918-3","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Women's studies international quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148068581929183","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article critically examines a number of works by sociologists of deviance and locates three fundamental inadequacies regarding the nature of male sexual crimes against women. Firstly, there is a failure to distinguish those crimes which are deviant from those which are not; secondly, these writers ignore or trivialize the effects of male sexual crimes on their female victims; and thirdly, a world view is presented in which male sexual violence is recognized as a form of social control only in non-Western societies. The interactionist perspective, a strong current within the sociology of deviance, in particular subsumes heterosexual power structures within the overall context of mutual, consensual sexual relations. My discussion lends support to the claim that even radical sociology remains male-defined by situating the male actor at the centre of the analysis.
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