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Sexual Violence in Intimacy
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ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|22 pages
Introductions to sexual violence in intimacy
chapter 1|9 pages
New frameworks for a global understanding of sexual violence in intimacy
part Section II|76 pages
Gendered narratives of sexual violence in marriage
chapter 3|19 pages
Young African men’s reflections on negotiating sexual intimacy
chapter 4|15 pages
Structural vulnerability and marital sexual violence in Chuuk, Micronesia
chapter 5|19 pages
“I didn’t tell anyone because of my self-respect”
chapter 6|21 pages
Black Feminist analysis of intraracial sexual violence within Black women’s intimate relationships
part Section III|72 pages
Changing the public discourse on sexual violence in intimacy
chapter 7|18 pages
Speaking the previously unspeakable
chapter 9|18 pages
The art of the possible
chapter 10|14 pages
The nexus between sexual and gender violence and the trafficking of women in Puerto Rico 1
part Section IV|42 pages
Implications for policy
chapter 11|27 pages
Prevalence and patterns of sexual violence in marriage in the Pacific Region
chapter 12|13 pages
A global women’s health perspective on marital rape
part |36 pages
Implications for policy