ABSTRACT
According to KRAMER, femininity and masculinity are distinguished in ways that construct femininity as “the radically ambivalent polar opposite of a radically unambivalent masculinity”. This binarism underlies his notion that normalized selfhood in modern Western culture promotes and rationalizes violence against women. He provides a series of reflections about how and why we imagine ourselves as gendered beings, the ways that imaginings can interplay with sexually violent actions, and how such interplays may be dismantled. His psychocultural approach provides an innovative model for analyses of social violence.
