Citation

Amuchástegui A. Cult. Soc. Masc. 2009; 1(2): 155-176.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Men's Studies Press)

DOI

10.3149/csm.0102.155

PMID

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Abstract

This article discusses qualitative research conducted with a group of Mexican men working against their violence toward their female partners. Using a Foucauldian analysis based on concepts of subjectivation and ethics of self, I argue that in this psycho-educational intervention a new subject is produced through these men's embodiment of the technical language of the discourse of violence against women: the violent man. In the program, adopting such an identity is regarded as the necessary condition for stopping violent behavior. From that starting point a whole technology of self is implemented in order to work with men's emotions and bodies. Pain is regarded as the true substance and antidote against all other undesirable emotions, including anger.