... sexual, and male violent, practices are rooted in and flow from cultural ideals of gender identities.The latter enables us to understand why men and women behave as they do, and the emotional and ... com-plex web of processes that extend into the organization of private life and cultural arrangements [21]. Thus,tenets of culture and religion and, for example, theoperation of the legal system, ... in con-trol of women, and violence may be used to establish this control. Instead of resisting this, the dominant ideal of femininity embraces compliance and tolerance of violent and hurtful...