Help-Seeking Within the Context of Patriarchy for Domestic Violence in Urban Uganda

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12438048
AutoresDiane Gardsbane (0000-0003-4517-498X, University of Maryland, College Park, autor correspondente), Paul Bukuluki (0000-0002-5388-5469, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda), Tina Musuya (Center for Domestic Violence Prevention)
Ano2021
Volume28
Fascículo1
Páginas232-254
Data de publicação2021-01-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801220985943
PMID33513077
OpenAlexW3122141324
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas29

This study in urban Kampala contributes to a growing evidence base about the complex contexts within which women make decisions about reporting domestic violence. Based on an intersecting theoretical lens of structural violence, power, and the body, findings suggested that women reported to formal structures primarily for severe physical or economic abuse. Women did not report less severe abuse, and often abandoned reporting even severe abuse, because of the overarching structural patriarchy and violence that exists, as well as women's habitus that includes the embodiment of social norms that sanction reporting. Yet, while overwhelmingly women are discouraged from reporting domestic abuse, there were important signs of change

Context (archaeology · Criminology · Domestic violence · Geography · Habitus · Medical emergency · Patriarchy · Physical abuse · Poison control · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Structural violence · Suicide prevention · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues