Ihe relationship between power and gender has been a major focus of feminist research, with early feminist theorizing tending to take a structuralist approach. A more recent focus has been on power and gender in their relational aspects, with the analysis of gender and power relations giving more credence to agency (Meyer, 1991). Power is also being viewed as a more nuanced and complex component of gender relations, rather than merely a matter of male domination and control. Click and Fiske (1999) suggested that power relations are not always char acterized by hostility, and they spoke of benevolent relationships. They coined the terms benevolent and hostile sexism, and they recognized that power included aspects of love as well as domination. Women, as well as men, are complicit in sexually exploitative practices that support a power system based on hegemonic masculinity.
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