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- Title
Of seduction and male abuse: Exploring the less-talked-about using Tamar's stratagem (Gn 37-38).
- Authors
Mwandayi, Canisius
- Abstract
Gender-based violence has often been framed and perceived as exclusively a women's issue. As a result, terms such as 'violence against women' and 'gender-based violence' have often been understood and used interchangeably. In the fight and campaign against gender-based violence, men have been reckoned to be the most common culprits behind fuelling violence against women. While indeed to a large extent men are the perpetrators of gender-based violence, little attention, however, has been paid to at least two things: the loose usage of the term 'gender' as if exclusive of men, as well as the violence that some men suffer at the hands of some women. It was the thrust of this article to bring on the table the less-talked-about sexual abuse that some men suffer at the hands of some young women using Tamar's trapping of Judah as an entry point into the discussion. Using a socio-anthropological approach, the article argued that the behaviour of some young women towards men older than themselves through manipulating their sexual weakness is a form of gender-based violence that calls for a redress. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The theme of gender-based violence is by definition of multidisciplinary interest. This contribution highlighted the lesstalked- about abuse of men, which is also of significance within multiple disciplines including biblical studies, social anthropology, theology, cultural studies and even history.
- Subjects
YOUNG women; VIOLENCE against women; SEDUCTION; ETHNOLOGY; OLDER men; SEX crimes; BIBLICAL studies
- Publication
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023, Vol 44, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1609-9982
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4102/ve.v44i1.2767