ABSTRACT
Only a few social scientific fields of inquiry have moved as far and fast in the last 40 years as violence against women research and the plight of rural women is no longer absent from the extant literature. In fact, empirical work on interpersonal types of male-to-female violence in rural and remote places, such as rape, has greatly expanded in the past 15 years. Despite this vaunted leap, the methodological hurdles that rural violence against women researchers faced in the past still exist and much more work is needed. The main objective of this chapter is twofold: (1) to identify some of the key challenges associated with collecting male violence against women data in rural and remote communities and (2) to suggest new research trajectories.
