When Wife-Beating Is Not Necessarily Abuse: A Feminist and Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Concept of Abuse as Expressed by Tibetan Survivors of Domestic Violence
| Autor: | Hamsa Rajan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Developing country Tibet Feminism Gender Studies Risk Factors Perception Humans Wife Cross-cultural Interpersonal Relations Active listening Survivors Psychological abuse 0505 law media_common 05 social sciences Gender studies Culturally Competent Care humanities Spouse Abuse 050501 criminology Domestic violence Psychology Law |
| Zdroj: | Violence Against Women. 24:3-27 |
| ISSN: | 1552-8448 1077-8012 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1077801216675742 |
| Popis: | This article describes the views of Tibetan women who have experienced physical violence from male intimate partners. How they conceptualise abuse, their views on acceptable versus unacceptable hitting, and the acts besides hitting which they felt to be unacceptable or abusive, are explored. Views of survivors’ relatives/friends and men who have hit their wives are also included. Western-based domestic violence theory is shown to be incommensurate with abuse in particular socio-cultural settings. As feminist scholars emphasize listening deeply to voices of women in the global South, this article demonstrates how such listening might be undertaken when the views expressed by women diverge from feminism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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