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Abstract

Apparently, in modern Western societies, the hegemonic masculinity has resulted in the myth of the self-sufficient man which competes in market economy for success and prestige. However, the mystic of masculinity endures latent in the imaginary of our societies. The representation of masculinity remains as natural violence and as superiority towards women. The social scourge of gender violence shows that Western men are still socialized into hegemonic masculinity. Thus, men are educated in a group of practices of self-control by which the use of violence is internalized as a form of domination of women. This group of masculine practices is the “pragmatics of control”.