Sexual Violence in Intimacy

Implications for Research and Policy in Global Health

M. Gabriela Torres, Kersti Yllö, M. Gabriela Torres, Kersti Yllö

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000225242
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Antropología

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.

Index

1. Page numbers in italics indicate figures.
2. Adomako Ampofo, Akosua 5, 8–9, 28
3. Africa: criminalization of marital rape in 29–30; female domesticity and 28; marital rape in 25, 27, 35; marriage in 26–29; see also African men; African women
4. African American men: exploitation of enslaved 87; masculinity and 85, 91; protection by Black communities 84, 93–94; white authors on deviancy of 82; see also Black men
5. African American women: commodification of enslaved 87–88; gender identity and 80; otherness and 89; protection of Black men by 84, 93–94; sexual assault reporting and 108; sexual coercion and 87, 92; sexual violence activism and 81; white authors on deviancy of 82; see also Black women
6. African men: bridewealth payments and 27; decolonial approach to masculinities and 31–32; expectations for manhood 32–34, 38; initiation of sexual relations 35–37; male-provider role and 28–29, 33–35; patriarchal norms and 26, 28, 30, 39; performance of masculinity and 25–26, 28–29, 38; “pretty privilege” and 31, 35; sexual availability of wives and 37–38; sexuality and 29, 86–87; understanding of consent 25–26, 35–39; unemployment and 33
7. African women: bridewealth payments and 27, 39n6; economic assets and 27; expressions of sexuality 36, 39; matrilineal families 27, 39n7; patriarchal norms and 34, 37; sexuality and 86–87
8. Against Our Will (Brownmiller) 81
9. Agents of Ishq (AoI) 141–142, 148–152
10. Ain’t I a Woman? (White) 86
11. Amnesty International 216, 218
12. Ampofo, Akosua-Asamoabea 31–32, 39n4
13. Andoh-Arthur, Johnny 28
14. anti-rape movement: Black woman-centered 80–81; marginalization of Black women in 79, 82–83; race neutral approach 83; testimonies and 80–81; white women and 78–79, 81–82
15. AoI see Agents of Ishq (AoI)
16. Asia-Pacific region 174–175, 176; see also Pacific Region
17. At the Dark End of ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• SECTION I Introductions to sexual violence in intimacy
• SECTION II Gendered narratives of sexual violence in marriage
• SECTION III Changing the public discourse on sexual violence in intimacy
• SECTION IV Implications for policy Part A: Cross-cultural comparisons of sexual violence in intimacy
• SECTION V Implications for policy Part B: The impact of gender equity discourses on policy
• Index