2. Domestic Violence and Middle-Class Manliness: Dombey and Son

When Domestic Violence is not "Intimate Partner Violence": Cases from Turkey and Elsewhere

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.33.3.0730mh7235601700 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 13-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kim Shively

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Middle Class ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Religion And Politics ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Good Friend ◽

Domestic Worker ◽

Front Door

I was acquainted with Hatice for a year before I first heard of her situation. Hatice was a cheerful, talkative woman who was a domestic worker in the homes of a number of middle-class households in Izmir, including in the household of a good friend. One day in 1999 when I went to visit the friend, Sevil, to discuss my research on religion and politics, I saw that Hatice's eye was black and blue. I refrained from asking about it for fear that she would be embarrassed, but she openly told me that her husband hit her and their four daughters when he was very drunk. And he drank a lot. This time, she said, he hit her hard on the side of the head just as she stepped through the front door. She talked about getting beaten without embarrassment or shame, and seemed to think that it was quite funny. In fact, Sevil's eye was also swollen from an infection, and Hatice joked that Sevil's husband had really beaten her. Then Hatice commented that it was too bad that my husband wasn't there to beat me, then we would all look alike.

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Engaging Diverse Men: An Intersectional Analysis of Men’s Pathways to Antiviolence Activism

Gender & Society ◽

10.1177/0891243217717181 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 526-548 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Tal Peretz

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

African American ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Middle Class ◽

Young Men ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Gender Justice ◽

Formal Learning ◽

Online Interactions ◽

Intersecting Identities

Despite the demonstrated utility of intersectionality, research on men allied with women’s rights movements has largely focused on white, heterosexual, middle-class, young men. This study illustrates the importance of attending to men’s intersecting identities by evaluating the applicability of existing knowledge about men’s engagement pathways to the predominantly African American members of a Muslim men’s anti–domestic violence group and a gay/queer men’s gender justice group. Findings from a year-long qualitative study highlight how these men’s experiences differ from those in the literature. While the Muslim men’s experiences add dimension to the existing knowledge—especially regarding age and parenthood, online interactions, and formal learning opportunities—the gay/queer men’s experiences are not accurately represented within it. Their pathways begin earlier, do not rely on women’s input, do not create a shift in gendered worldview, and lack a pathway narrative because they connect to gender justice through their own intersecting identities and experiences. This suggests that a marginalized identity is not in itself sufficient to alter engagement pathways; the particular type of marginalization matters.

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Postcolonial Patriarchal Nativism, Domestic Violence and Transnational Feminist Research in Contemporary Uganda

Feminist Review ◽

10.1177/0141778918818835 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 121 (1) ◽

pp. 37-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anneeth Kaur Hundle

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Middle Class ◽

Asian Indian ◽

Global South ◽

Feminist Research ◽

Research Approach ◽

Migrant Woman ◽

Indian Community ◽

High Profile

This article examines the development of a multidimensional, transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda in relation to a high-profile case of domestic violence and femicide of a middle-class, upper-caste Indian migrant woman in Kampala in 1998. It explores indigenous Ugandan public and Ugandan Asian/Indian community interpretations and the dynamics of cross-racial feminist mobilisation and protest that emerged in response to the Joshi-Sharma domestic violence case. In doing so, it advocates for a transnational feminist research approach from and within Uganda and the Global South that works against the grain of nationalist and nativist biases in existing feminist scholarly trends. This approach lays bare power inequalities and internal tensions within and across racialised African and Asian communities, and thus avoids the romanticisation of cross-racial feminist African-Asian solidarities.

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