THE ‘MALE’IN THE WOMEN: APSYCHOLOGICALDIMENSION OF WOMEN’S VIOLENCEON WOMEN

Abstract

Violence—the very term meets our consciousness with its various archetypal agents like bloodshed, abuse and attack. The terms has gained importance in the eyes of feminists who define it somewhat as any physical, sexual, verbal and psychological violation of the rights and persona of women. The very brutality, bloodshed and sexual tortures that women in the world face in their daily life provide it maleness. In the current scenario and especially the last few months we have come across the examples of the traditional form of violence against women. Such a huge protest in the Delhi gang rape case, the amendments in the law and the increased awareness of the media, all have put ‘Males’ in the category of the single, omnipotent and the most inhuman form of existence on the earth. But apart from these much talked of traitors and violators of the rights of women who are their universal opposites and perennial enemies there are others who use the ‘Male’ as scapegoats while practicing this maleness wherever necessary. My paper would concentrate on the psychological violence that women practice on their own sexual-counterparts. But these forms of violence are categorically and strategically kept out of the talks of media, politics, theory and society, while actually demanding a lot of attention and serious remedies because women are ready to fight against this ‘Maleness’ that is tearing their identity apart while actually getting a blow from inside. Beyond the one universal binary of Male/Female there are binaries of multiple levels in the right side of this slash. If women want to do away with the violence of man they will first have to develop what Judith Butler calls a Sisterhood.