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Sexual Violence in Intimacy: Implications for Research and Policy in Global Health book cover

1st Edition

Sexual Violence in Intimacy Implications for Research and Policy in Global Health

Edited By M. Gabriela Torres, Kersti Yllö Copyright 2021
274 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Section I: Introductions to Sexual Violence in Intimacy

Chapter 1: New Frameworks for a Global Understanding of Sexual Violence in Intimacy

M. Gabriela Torres

Chapter 2: Living through Marital Rape

Fatima Porgho

Section II: Gendered Narratives of Sexual Violence in Marriage

Chapter 3: Young African Men’s Reflections on Negotiating Sexual Intimacy

Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Chapter 4: Structural Vulnerability and Marital Sexual Violence in Chuuk, Micronesia

Sarah A. Smith

Chapter 5: "I didn’t tell anyone because of my self-respect." The Collective Response to Naming Sexual Violence within Marriage in India

Niveditha Menon

Chapter 6: Black Feminist Analysis of Intraracial Sexual Violence within Black Women’s Intimate Relationships

Freda Grant

Section III: Changing the Public Discourse on Sexual Violence in Intimacy

Chapter 7: Speaking the Previously Unspeakable: How Codifications of Spousal Rape into Law Affects How Intimate Partner Sexual Assaults are Reported

Rachel Lovell, Cyleste C. Collins, and Misty N. Luminais

Chapter 8: Marital Sexual Violence, Care, and Shared Suffering in Vietnam

Lynn Kwiatkowski

Chapter 9: The Art of the Possible: An Exploration of Artistic Interventions to Address Marital Rape in India.

Sreeparna Chattodpahay

Chapter 10: The Nexus between Sexual and Gender Violence and the Trafficking of Women in Puerto Rico

Luisa Hernández Angueira and Sheila Pérez López

Section IV: Implications for Policy

  1. Cross Cultural Comparisons of Sexual Violence in Intimacy

    2. Chapter 11: Prevalence and Patterns of Sexual Violence in Marriage in the Pacific Region: Quantitative Data in Cross Cultural Comparison

    Henriette Jansen

    Chapter 12: A Global Women’s Health Perspective on Marital Rape: Sanctions and Sanctuary

    Jacquelyn Campbell

  2. The Impact of Gender Equity Discourses on Policy

Chapter 13: Gender Equality Achieved? Policies on Intimate Partner (Sexual) Violence in the Danish Context.

Eva Bertelsen, William Østerby Sørensen, and Anna Maria Moskilde

Chapter 14: Reframing Sexual Violence as "Sexual Harm" in New Zealand: A Policy Critique

Nicola Gavey, and Jade Farley

Biography

M. Gabriela Torres is Professor of Anthropology at Wheaton College, MA, USA.

Kersti Yllö is Professor of Sociology (Emerita) at Wheaton College, MA, USA.

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