Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1177/10778012231205591
Rodante van der Waal, Inge van Nistelrooij, Carlo Leget
{"title":"The Undercommons of Childbirth and Their Abolitionist Ethic of Care. A Study into Obstetric Violence Among Mothers, Midwives (in Training), and Doulas.","authors":"Rodante van der Waal, Inge van Nistelrooij, Carlo Leget","doi":"10.1177/10778012231205591","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231205591","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Engaging in dialogue with critical mothers, midwives, midwives in training, and doulas in the Netherlands, this study furthers the theoretical understanding of both obstetric violence and the activist resistance against it. Obstetric violence is understood as part of a process of relational separation, leaving the pregnant person isolated. The activist resistance against it is consequently theorized as the abolitionist building of an alternative \"otherworld\" of radical relational care. The themes established are: (1) \"institutionalized separation\" with the subtheme's \"expropriation,\" \"carcerality,\" and \"obstetric violence;\" and (2) \"undercommoning childbirth\" with subthemes \"fugitive planning,\" \"anarchic relationality,\" and \"obstetric abolition.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"155-181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11610184/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138499554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1177/10778012231214770
Julie King, Mark King, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, Hanna Watling, Julie-Anne Carroll, Melissa Bull, Deanna Grant-Smith, Mujibul Anam, Sakony Pen, Danielle Davidson
{"title":"Women's Empowerment Through Access to Safe Transport: The Impact of Sexual and Nonsexual Victimization on Female Commuters in Bangladesh and Cambodia.","authors":"Julie King, Mark King, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, Hanna Watling, Julie-Anne Carroll, Melissa Bull, Deanna Grant-Smith, Mujibul Anam, Sakony Pen, Danielle Davidson","doi":"10.1177/10778012231214770","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231214770","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An examination of women's experience on public transport in Bangladesh and Cambodia found that victimization does reduce perceived safety or transport use. In a cultural context where women are socialized to fear and avoid public spaces, experiencing victimization may confirm rather than change previous beliefs. Moreover, it is possible that the participants' use of public transport was driven by necessity rather than choice and that they were unable to change travel patterns in response to victimization. These findings underscore the importance of targeting public violence toward women and the broader societal norms that limit their participation in public life.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"308-327"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11610203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138831723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-29DOI: 10.1177/10778012231203623
María Del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes, Nieves Moyano, Sandra Milena Parra-Barrera, Reina Granados de Haro
{"title":"Objectification and Violence Against Women: The Spanish Validation of the Interpersonal Sexual Objectification Scale-Perpetration Version.","authors":"María Del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes, Nieves Moyano, Sandra Milena Parra-Barrera, Reina Granados de Haro","doi":"10.1177/10778012231203623","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231203623","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to validate the Interpersonal Sexual Objectification Scale-Perpetration Version (ISOS-P), a measure that assesses sexual objectification perpetration. The sample consisted of 356 heterosexual men of Spanish nationality. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed. The Spanish validation of the ISOS-P comprises 15 items and showed a trifactorial structure. McDonald's omega values ranged from 0.71 to 0.80, and evidences of validity are shown by positive correlations with the endorsement of a positive attitude toward rape and having perpetrated several sexual aggression types. The Spanish validation of the ISOS-P is a valid and reliable scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"291-307"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41158442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1177/10778012241275696
Georgia Verry, Penny McKay
{"title":"Adapting Trauma-Informed Kickboxing for the Salvadoran Context: A Practitioner Essay.","authors":"Georgia Verry, Penny McKay","doi":"10.1177/10778012241275696","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241275696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This practitioner essay will discuss the evidence base for an Australian trauma-informed kickboxing program, The Fight Back Project. We share key differences and adjustments while delivering this program in the Salvadoran context. We consider practitioner assumptions and limitations when transferring trauma-informed practice principles from the Global North to the Central American setting, and the criticality of gender-responsive adaptations. Drawing from existing research on the benefits of trauma-informed martial arts as a form of physical exercise, we describe the collaborative development and implementation of a trauma-informed kickboxing program alongside a local, community-led organization.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"146-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142156103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1177/10778012241275698
Maria Liegghio, Sandra Guadalupe Ordóñez Sánchez
{"title":"\"Despartares Decoloniales\": The Implications of \"Territorio Cuerpo-Tierra\" for Studying Women's Embodied Resilience to Trauma in El Salvador, Central America.","authors":"Maria Liegghio, Sandra Guadalupe Ordóñez Sánchez","doi":"10.1177/10778012241275698","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241275698","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We explore the implications of the concept of <i>territorio cuerpo-tierra</i> for conducting research on women's resilience to trauma and post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery in El Salvador, Central America. <i>Cuerpo-territorio</i> forces a reconceptualization of women's realities as bound to the embodiment of the geo-politics of gender, body, and land as territories, and thus, their realities as bound to the histories and temporality of those as territories. Through a series of <i>despartares decoloniales</i> (decolonial awakenings), we postulate that resilience research reproduces narrowly defined understanding of women's realities and responses to both the symbolic and physical conditions and adversities of their lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"125-145"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11610207/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142296660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1177/10778012241275697
Lauren F Lichty, Alice Pedersen
{"title":"Constructing Sacred Containers for Participatory Action Research: An Embodied Mindfulness Arts-Based Practice.","authors":"Lauren F Lichty, Alice Pedersen","doi":"10.1177/10778012241275697","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241275697","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>College campuses are sites of institutional betrayal and interpersonal harm for too many survivors of gender-based violence. In pursuit of change aligned with empowerment frameworks and feminist epistemologies, many of us create spaces for impacted students to engage in participatory action research and learning. This article describes a mindfulness, arts-based embodied practice for transforming settings and positioning participants as visionaries and experts on safety, power, and well-being. Through intentional dyadic and collective discussion, the Sacred Containers form the foundation for a coconstructed community. This article describes the rationale, process, impact, and recommendations via student and faculty reflections across four cohorts.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"79-101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142354806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farida Bibi Mughal, Laura Sinko, Denise Saint Arnault
{"title":"Enhancing the Recovery Process for Undergraduate Women Survivors of Sexual Violence: Identifying Facilitators to Healing.","authors":"Farida Bibi Mughal, Laura Sinko, Denise Saint Arnault","doi":"10.1177/10778012241307334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241307334","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The psychosocial impact of sexual violence (SV) on college-aged women necessitates understanding positive influences of survivors' healing processes. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to investigate facilitators in the healing journey for undergraduate SV survivors. Seventeen women were interviewed using Photo-experiencing and Reflective Listening (PEARL). Thematic analysis revealed three core facilitators: (a) Support-formal and informal networks promote emotional well-being, (b) Personal Development-emotional intelligence, self-reflection, positivity, and interpersonal skills encourage healing, and (c) Actions-intentional efforts, self-care, and help-seeking empower survivors. These findings highlight key areas for supportive interventions to promote survivor healing, well-being, and quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012241307334"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Huber-Krum, Denise V D'Angelo, Marta Bornstein, Yanet Ruvalcaba, Kara Tsukerman, Lauren B Zapata, Subasri Narasimhan
{"title":"Association Between Emotional Intimate Partner Violence Around the Time of Pregnancy and Postpartum Contraceptive Use: Results from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System 2016-2021.","authors":"Sarah Huber-Krum, Denise V D'Angelo, Marta Bornstein, Yanet Ruvalcaba, Kara Tsukerman, Lauren B Zapata, Subasri Narasimhan","doi":"10.1177/10778012241303468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241303468","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study assessed the relationships between emotional intimate partner violence (IPV) before, during, and after pregnancy and postpartum contraceptive use. We used 2016-2021 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System data from seven sites (<i>n</i> = 30,125). We used multivariable logistic regression to assess indicators of emotional IPV and provider counseling associated with postpartum contraceptive use. Emotional IPV 12 months before, during, and after pregnancy were all significantly associated with reduced odds of postpartum contraceptive use. Strengthening postpartum contraceptive services by integrating IPV prevention into care is an opportunity to improve the health of postpartum people.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012241303468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating Mechanisms Between Child Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence, and Psychological Distress in Malawi and Uganda: An Application of Generalized Structural Equation Models.","authors":"Luissa Vahedi, Jessica Lee, Lindsay Stark, Ilana Seff","doi":"10.1177/10778012241303470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241303470","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One in five women aged 20-24 years are first married before adulthood. Using the Violence against Children Surveys from Uganda and Malawi, we decomposed the total relationship between child marriage and psychological distress into an indirect relationship via intimate partner violence (IPV) and a direct relationship (above and beyond IPV). In Uganda, delaying marriage during adolescence reduced the probability of IPV and psychological distress in young adulthood; 45% of the total relationship between age at first marriage and psychological distress was mediated through IPV. In contrast, Malawi showed less evidence of direct and indirect relationships, though the total effect approached significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012241303470"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142847701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Him, Me, or the Both of Us\": Perceptions of Blame Among Israeli Ultraorthodox Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence.","authors":"Anat Vass, Julia Krane, Eli Buchbinder","doi":"10.1177/10778012241303475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241303475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated how Ultraorthodox Jewish Women (UJW) survivors attribute blame in intimate partner violence (IPV) experiences, addressing a significant research gap in understanding IPV within specific cultural contexts. The research employed a phenomenological approach through 15 semistructured face-to-face interviews with UJW IPV survivors. The findings revealed diverse patterns of blame attribution, including exclusive perpetrator blame, self-blame, and shared responsibility. The study suggests the need for a broader scientific framework to understand their experiences, emphasizing how IPV must be understood within both wider social and specific cultural contexts. This understanding is crucial for developing culturally sensitive interventions and support services for IPV survivors.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012241303475"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142829937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}