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Marital Rape - Consent, Marriage, and Social Change in Global Context (Hardcover)
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Marital Rape - Consent, Marriage, and Social Change in Global Context (Hardcover)
Series: Interpersonal Violence
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Rape in marriage is a global problem affecting millions of women -
it is still legal in many countries and was only criminalized in
all U.S. states in 1993. In much of the world, marital rape is too
often understood as an oxymoron due to the fact that the ideology
of permanent consent underlies the legal and cultural definitions
of sex in marriage. From Vietnam to Guatemala to South Africa and
beyond, this volume examines how cultural, legal, public health,
and human rights policies and practices impact intimate partner
violence. While legal and cultural conceptions of marital rape vary
widely - from criminal assault to wifely duty - this volume offers
evidence from different societies that forced sex undermines the
physical and psychological well-being of the women who experience
it, regardless of their cultural context. Globally, the nature of
marriage is changing and so are notions of individual choice, love,
intimacy, and rigid gender roles. Marital Rape documents wide
ranging and fluid understandings of sex, consent, and rape in
marriage; such an array of perspectives demands an international
and interdisciplinary approach to the study of sex and gender-based
violence. This text brings together an international group of
scholars from the fields of anthropology, sociology, criminology,
law, public health, and human rights; their work points to the
importance of understanding the lived experience of sexual violence
for the design of effective and culturally sensitive public policy
and practice.
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