TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - The Myths of Violence
JO  - Latin American perspectives
A1  - Hume, Mo
SP  - 59
EP  - 76
VL  - 35
IS  - 5
N2  - Empirical data gathered in El Salvador indicate that knowledge about violence there is built upon an exclusionary and highly masculinist logic. Violence has come to be perceived as normal through a political project that has actively employed terror to pursue its ends. This process has been made possible by a legitimization of violence as a key element of male gender identity. Political circumstances in El Salvador, principally the war, have both nourished and reinforced a sense of gender identity based on polarization, exclusion, and hegemony.<p /> 
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SN  - 0094-582X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582X08321957
ID  - ref1
ER  -