Dein (2002) comments on our editorial on explanatory models (Bhui & Bhugra, 2002), but fails to apprehend the conceptual flaws in his assertions, promotes a complacent attitude to the challenges of cultural psychiatry, and is threatened by a patient’s explanatory model that differs from his own. Dein agrees with us that explanatory models are not stable, and are dynamic, complex, shifting entit...

Mainstream feminist discourse typically defines rape culture as the normalization of aggressive male sexual violence against women, a definition that emerged out radical analysis patriarchy in 1970s but does not reflect intersectionality violence. I argue conceptual must explore other dimensions power addition to patriarchy, such white supremacy, heteronormativity, and capitalist exploitation. ...

Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces: Conference 2011 Working Papers Collection 2012 In her 1982 film A Question of Silence, Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris poses an astute critical commentar y on the performance of femininity and the enactment of gender roles within the rigid patriarchal conventions of an ostensibly liberal urban society. Through Gorris’s cinematic lens, the delineation...

This article discusses family interactions that devalue female children in India and the role of government in enriching family life. Child development is dependent upon the family and the social environment. Patriarchy establishes the structure, roles, and responsibilities of the family through hierarchies of age, gender, and generation. Males hold authoritative positions because of their c...