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Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this
volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy
through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based
conceptual frameworks. Sexual violence in intimacy is a global
pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well
as wider social suffering. It is also legal and culturally condoned
in much of the world. Bringing together international and
interdisciplinary research, the book explores marital rape as
individual suffering that is best understood in cultural and
institutional context. Gendered narratives and large-scale surveys
from India, Ghana and Africa Diasporas, Pacific Islands, Denmark,
New Zealand, the United States, and beyond illuminate
cross-cultural differences and commonalities. Methodological
debates concerning etic and emic approaches and de-colonial
challenges are addressed. Finally, a range of policy and
intervention approaches-including art, state rhetoric, health care,
and criminal justice-are explored. This book provides much needed
scholarship to guide policymakers, practitioners, and activists as
well as for researchers studying gender-based violence, marriage,
and kinship, and the legal and public health concerns of women
globally. It will be relevant for upper-level students and scholars
in anthropology, sociology, psychology, women's studies, social
work and public and global health.
Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this
volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy
through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based
conceptual frameworks. Sexual violence in intimacy is a global
pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well
as wider social suffering. It is also legal and culturally condoned
in much of the world. Bringing together international and
interdisciplinary research, the book explores marital rape as
individual suffering that is best understood in cultural and
institutional context. Gendered narratives and large-scale surveys
from India, Ghana and Africa Diasporas, Pacific Islands, Denmark,
New Zealand, the United States, and beyond illuminate
cross-cultural differences and commonalities. Methodological
debates concerning etic and emic approaches and de-colonial
challenges are addressed. Finally, a range of policy and
intervention approaches-including art, state rhetoric, health care,
and criminal justice-are explored. This book provides much needed
scholarship to guide policymakers, practitioners, and activists as
well as for researchers studying gender-based violence, marriage,
and kinship, and the legal and public health concerns of women
globally. It will be relevant for upper-level students and scholars
in anthropology, sociology, psychology, women's studies, social
work and public and global health.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This multidisciplinary
volume brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration
attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving
expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of
violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars
and attorneys have collaborated to defend the rights of immigrant
women, children, and LGBTQ+ persons who are threatened by
gender-based, sexual, and gang violence in their home countries.
Researchers in anthropology, history, political science, and
sociology have regularly supported the work of immigration lawyers
and contributed to public debates on immigration reform, but the
academy contains untapped scholarly expertise that, guided by the
resources provided in this handbook, can aid asylum seekers and
refugees and promote the fair adjudication of asylum claims in US
courts. As the recent refugee crisis of immigrant mothers and
children and unaccompanied minors has made clear, there is an
urgent need for academics to work with other professionals to build
a legal framework and national network that can respond effectively
to this human rights crisis.
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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