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Today, women's rights are at their height. Even so, a large number of women are emotionally or sexually abused by men. In the United States, "a woman is in greater risk of being assaulted or raped in her own home by someone she knows than a stranger on the street" (Glaser). This violent aggression, by men, may be due to a combination of: society's definitions of masculinity, socio-economic background and pop culture.
In "How the Americans Understand the Equality of the Sexes," Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, wrote about the different but equal gender roles in early America. According to Tocqueville, "women of America…attach a sort of pride to the voluntary surrender of their own will" (418). American society today finds this idea laughable and even insulting. In a time where spousal abuse was not punished, women had no choice but to "surrender their own will." Society expected this behavior which women, and men alike, complied to.
However, men also felt......

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