Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-26DOI: 10.1177/10778012251379436
Maha Sabbah-Karkabi, Adital Ben-Ari
{"title":"Intersectionality of Marital Separation and Economic Abuse: A Continuous Economic Dependency.","authors":"Maha Sabbah-Karkabi, Adital Ben-Ari","doi":"10.1177/10778012251379436","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251379436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study employs a feminist explanation of marriage alongside an intersectional approach to explore the social forces that sustain economic abuse not only during marriage but also long after separation, by focusing on Palestinian Arab women in Israel-a socially and ethnically marginalized group. Using a qualitative method, the findings revealed two outcomes: First, the patriarchal social context in which marriage, gender roles, and divorce occurred blurred the distinction between normative and abusive actions. Second, the cumulative effects of continuous economic abuse were intensified in the face of intersectional marginalities of gender, ethnicity, and class, which shaped women's chances of recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4555-4578"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145178813","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1177/10778012251384630
Randi Saunders
{"title":"Marital Dynamics, Physical and Non-Physical Violence, and Indian Women's Reproductive Control.","authors":"Randi Saunders","doi":"10.1177/10778012251384630","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251384630","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intimate partner violence is highly prevalent worldwide. Previous research has linked partner violence with reduced contraceptive use, but little is known about the role of non-physical violence in non-Western contexts. Using data from the 2015-16 India Demographic and Health Survey, this study investigates how unequal gender dynamics, marital violence, and coercive control influence unmet need for contraception. Findings suggest that coercive control may play an important role in shaping women's contraceptive use and reproductive autonomy. Health practitioners and advocates should consider coercive control by spouses as a meaningful barrier to contraceptive uptake when women wish to space or limit pregnancies.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4529-4554"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554375/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514449","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-24DOI: 10.1177/10778012251379446
Arash Beidollahkhani, Mahdiyeh Ghorashi
{"title":"Hashtagging Resistance: Media, Authority, and Women's Subjectivity in Post-Mahsa Iran.","authors":"Arash Beidollahkhani, Mahdiyeh Ghorashi","doi":"10.1177/10778012251379446","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251379446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores the intersections of media, authority, and women's subjectivity in post-Mahsa Iran through Lacanian psychoanalysis. We examine digital activism on X (formerly Twitter) following Mahsa Amini's death in 2022, focusing on how women resist state-imposed hijab laws by deploying hashtags as tools of symbolic disruption. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyze 20 hijab-related hashtags from 2018 to 2023 to reveal how these campaigns express resistance and shape psychological subjectification. Our findings underscore women's resistance as both a site of subjectivity and political agency, illustrating how digital activism fosters feminist identity, symbolic defiance, and subject formation under authoritarian rule.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4973-5001"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554345/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145131965","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2023-12-17DOI: 10.1177/10778012231220452
{"title":"Correction notice to What Is Justice? Perspectives of Victims-Survivors of Gender-Based Violence. Hester M, Williamson E, Eisenstadt N, et al. Violence Against Women. DOI: 10.1177/10778012231214772.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10778012231220452","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231220452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"NP1"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138810554","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-19DOI: 10.1177/10778012251379428
Hannah Javidi, Alyssa M Lederer, Katherine Johnson
{"title":"What Influences College Students' Endorsement or Rejection of Affirmative Consent?","authors":"Hannah Javidi, Alyssa M Lederer, Katherine Johnson","doi":"10.1177/10778012251379428","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251379428","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Affirmative consent policies and practices, which require consent to have certain characteristics (e.g., reversible, specific, voluntary), contrast with traditional views of consent. Understanding why college students endorse or reject this model can help foster safer, more respectful campus sexual relationships. Among 316 southern U.S. undergraduates (81% cisgender women, 83.2% White, 71.5% liberal, 65.2% heterosexual), affirmative consent beliefs correlated significantly with gender, sexual identity, and political orientation. Lower apathy toward the issue of sexual misconduct on their college campus, as well as more egalitarian gender role beliefs, predicted higher endorsement of affirmative consent among college students. Interventions should target attitudinal shifts to challenge harmful myths and promote positive beliefs about consent and sexuality.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4810-4833"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092520","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-22DOI: 10.1177/10778012251379426
Morgan E PettyJohn, Aly Kramer Jacobs, Khara Breeden, Bethany L Backes, Leila Wood
{"title":"\"I Just Really Felt Like I Was Heard for the First Time\": Survivor Experiences With an Adult Forensic Interviewing Model.","authors":"Morgan E PettyJohn, Aly Kramer Jacobs, Khara Breeden, Bethany L Backes, Leila Wood","doi":"10.1177/10778012251379426","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251379426","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adult forensic interviewing (AFI) collects evidence for the investigation and prosecution of interpersonal violence in a trauma-informed setting. The present study uses mixed methods evaluation data from an AFI program in the U.S. to assess survivors' perceptions of safety and the utility of participating in these interviews. Most participants felt the process was beneficial to their personal lives and criminal justice system engagement by: (a) allowing them to share their stories in more detail, (b) supporting their healing journeys, and (c) helping them feel safer through resource referral. AFI is a promising practice that warrants continued research.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4850-4872"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145126099","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1177/10778012251379437
Sarah Werner Boada
{"title":"The Trope of Romani Criminality in Spain's Gender Violence Institutions: A Critique of Punitive Feminism.","authors":"Sarah Werner Boada","doi":"10.1177/10778012251379437","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251379437","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While Spain has been drawing worldwide attention for its feminist mobilizations in the past years, the movement is currently tearing itself apart on whether a punitive response to gender violence aligns with its values. Based on qualitative research in Madrid's gender violence institutions, I discuss the primacy given to prosecution in the implementation of Spain's internationally acclaimed \"gender violence law\" and how it interacts with the racist trope of \"Romani criminality\" in practitioners' discourses. I show that it manifests in the popular culture myth of Romani men hurting women; strong suspicions towards Romani women summoned at court; and a rejection of Romani resolution process mechanisms. I conclude that Romani women's alternative means of finding safety deserve better consideration for their transformative justice potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4923-4948"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554355/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145192881","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1177/10778012251369646
{"title":"EXPRESSION OF CONCERN to Second-Order Sexual Harassment: Violence Against the Silence Breakers Who Support the Victims.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10778012251369646","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251369646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"NP2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034248","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-10-29DOI: 10.1177/10778012251391136
G J Melendez-Torres, Rebecca Meiksin, Ruth Ponsford, Nerissa Tilouche, Neisha Sundaram, Joanna Sturgess, Elizabeth Allen, Maria Lohan, Honor Young, Alison Hadley, Rona Campbell, Chris Bonell
{"title":"Sexual Harassment in Early Adolescence: Findings From a Cross-Sectional Survey in Secondary Schools in England.","authors":"G J Melendez-Torres, Rebecca Meiksin, Ruth Ponsford, Nerissa Tilouche, Neisha Sundaram, Joanna Sturgess, Elizabeth Allen, Maria Lohan, Honor Young, Alison Hadley, Rona Campbell, Chris Bonell","doi":"10.1177/10778012251391136","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251391136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is little research on sexual harassment among younger adolescents or on how rates vary by gender and other student/school characteristics. Drawing on data from 50 English schools, we explored the prevalence and patterning of victimization in the past year among students aged 12-13. Of 7,060 participants, almost a tenth had experienced sexual harassment. Girls, non-binary students, and sexual-minority students reported the highest rates. Student commitment to school was associated with reduced victimization, particularly among straight students and in higher-attaining schools. Sexual harassment is a priority area for intervention, particularly for students facing the highest risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4834-4849"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554358/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145402146","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 : 2026-10-01Epub Date: 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1177/10778012251384622
Eliona Gjecaj, Rannveig Traustadóttir, James Gordon Rice
{"title":"\"Nobody Will Believe Me\": Lack of Reporting Violence by Disabled Women.","authors":"Eliona Gjecaj, Rannveig Traustadóttir, James Gordon Rice","doi":"10.1177/10778012251384622","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012251384622","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A growing body of research shows the high risk, frequency, forms, and impact of violence against disabled women throughout their lives. Limited research exists regarding access to justice for disabled women, in particular with reporting and prosecution. Using an interdisciplinary human rights approach, the paper draws on interviews with disabled women about their experiences of gender-based violence and access to justice. Findings describe and discuss their lived experiences of violence, highlighting the lack of reporting the violence and the multiple and complex barriers to doing so. The article concludes with recommendations that may help to overcome these barriers.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"4678-4697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554349/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145245467","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}