Peerformance

Bystanders Enacting and Challenging Gender Norms in Community-Based Theater to Prevent Domestic Violence

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ID9744694
AuthorsMieko Yoshihama (0000-0002-6256-2071, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Amy C Hammock (0000-0002-5915-750X, Stony Brook University, NY, USA), Fatmeh Baidoun (0009-0006-2097-5544, University of Michigan)
Year2022
Volume28
Issue3-4
Pages922-945
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778012211014556
PMID34160319
OpenAlexW3174895213
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited52

This study examined the gender beliefs and norms expressed by South Asian community members when intervening as bystanders in Peerformance, a publicly performed scene depicting a husband’s controlling behavior toward his wife enacted by a peer-led theater group. Using a grounded theory approach, inductive coding and reiterative visual analysis of videotaped bystander interactions revealed that, while most community members confronted the husband, beliefs about gender roles and relations impacted how these confrontations occurred. The complexity of gender norms in bystanders’ interventions calls for sociocultural tailoring; bystander programs must attend to the rich, within-group variations in community members’ attitudes and beliefs

Bystander effect · Developmental psychology · Grounded theory · Medical emergency · Peer group · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Social norms approach · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology

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