Violence Against Women

Duncan McDuie-Ra
Violence against Women

This article contends that essentialist notions of gender oppression are inadequate in understanding the realities in the Northeast frontier......Divorce carries a major social stigma for women and their families, and thus, women are more likely to remain in abusive marriages, less likely to seek help, and more likely to tolerate abuse (Basu, 2001)......

In this frontier culture of violence VAW emanates from the continued interplay between the external non-familial context and the internal familial context. In this environment, violence is constitutive of public and private spaces........