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IF GENDER IS SYMPTOM WHAT IS THE CAUSE

IF GENDER IS SYMPTOM WHAT IS THE CAUSE The crimes against women in the form of gender violence have been augmented day by day. The crimes reveal the truth transparently that gender violence against women is symptom which should be rooted out very earlier for the betterment of the society as well as the emancipation of women. American psychoanalyst Robert Stoller said that the behavioural and cultural practices of a man which were constructed by the society, known as ‘gender’. We have the ideas that woman is only a physical being with distinguished biological structures. She has to produce children as machine, due to her destiny throughout her life. The French feminist Simone De Beauvoir states in her book ‘The Second Sex’, “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman”. From her statement we understand that the socio-economic circumstances have tended to channel woman into occupying such roles. From the above we can know that the patriarchal society is the main cause for violence agains