... a way to exert gender roles. The men use violence to assert their masculinity while Andrew's father used it to force his daughter into her feminine gender expectations. As Lise-Helene Trouilloud writes, Andrew's father first punishes Chi because he read her actions, "as a sign of defiance of his male authority," and he uses violence again to teach Chi to ... ...

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