Characteristics of Neoliberal Patriarchy in the Modern Republic of Serbia with a Special Reference to the Male Violence Against Women in the Digital Environment Cover Image

KARAKTERISTIKE NEOLIBERALNOG PATRIJARHATA U SAVREMENOJ REPUBLICI SRBIJI SA POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA MUŠKO NASILJE PREMA ŽENAMA U DIGITALNOM OKRUŽENJU
Characteristics of Neoliberal Patriarchy in the Modern Republic of Serbia with a Special Reference to the Male Violence Against Women in the Digital Environment

Author(s): Hristina Cvetičanin Knežević
Subject(s): Media studies, Civil Society, Studies in violence and power, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: male violence; neoliberalism; digital environment; patriarchy; cyber violence; revenge porn; Sylvia Walby

Summary/Abstract: Male violence against women is a phenomenon as old as society. It appears as a result of the historically unequal power relationships between men and women and it is present in different historical periods and different social, political and economic systems. The aim of this paper is to call attention to how neoliberalism, as an economic and political system in the Republic of Serbia, influences male violence against women in the digital environment to become one of the structures of perpetuating neoliberal neoconservative patriarchy. We will point out its interaction with other structures of patriarchy in a way that it becomes a regulatory mechanism for maintaining a specific socio-economic system. It will be done by applying Sylvia Walby’s theory of the patriarchy to a wider socio-historical context of the Republic of Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 20/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 111-131
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian