scholarly journals Workplace violence against women in catering sector: the qualitative study in Lithuania

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Radzevičiūtė ◽  
J Stanislavovienė ◽  
M Veniūtė
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Workplace Violence

The Experience of Violence Against Women Who Use Injection Drugs: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 084456212097957
Author(s):  
Cynthia Kitson ◽  
Patrick O’Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Homeless Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Infectious Disease Transmission ◽  
Injection Drugs ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Societal Violence

Background While literature exists about persons who use injection drugs, few studies explore the experience of women who use these substances. Furthermore, even less research specifically focuses on the lives and experiences of homeless women who use injection drugs. What literature does exist, moreover, is often dated and primarily addresses concerns about infectious disease transmission among these women; and some highlight that these women have lives fraught with violence. Purpose To update this knowledge and better understand the lives of women who use injection drugs in the Canadian context. Methods We undertook an exploratory qualitative study and we engaged in semi-structured interviews with 31 homeless women who use injection drugs in downtown Ottawa, Canada. We analyzed the data using the principles of applied thematic analysis. Results Our data identified that violence pervaded the lives of our participants and that these experiences of violence could be categorized into three main areas: early and lifelong experiences of violence; violence with authority figures (e.g., police, healthcare); and societal violence toward women who use injection drugs. Conclusions We take these findings to mean that, violence toward women is rampant in Canada (not just internationally) and that healthcare workers play a role in propagating and addressing this violence.

scholarly journals A qualitative study of workplace violence among healthcare providers in emergency departments in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Davey ◽  
Veda Ravishankar ◽  
Nikita Mehta ◽  
Tania Ahluwalia ◽  
Janice Blanchard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Emergency Departments ◽  
Healthcare Providers

scholarly journals Repercussions of imprisonment for conjugal violence: discourses of men

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anderson Reis de Sousa ◽  
Álvaro Pereira ◽  
Gilvânia Patrícia do Nascimento Paixão ◽  
Nadirlene Gomes Pereira ◽  
Luana Moura Campos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Emotional Symptoms ◽  
R Software ◽  
Conjugal Violence ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women

ABSTRACT Objective: to know the consequences that men experience related to incarceration by conjugal violence. Methods: qualitative study on 20 men in jail and indicted in criminal processes related to conjugal violence in a Court specialized in Family and Domestic Violence against women. The interviews were classified based on Collective Subject Discourse method, using NVIVO(r) software. Results: the collective discourse shows that the experience of preventive imprisonment starts a process of family dismantling, social stigma, financial hardship and psycho-emotional symptoms such as phobia, depression, hypertension, and headaches. Conclusion: due to the physical, mental and social consequences of the conjugal violence-related imprisonment experience, it is urgent to look carefully into the somatization process as well as to the prevention strategies regarding this process.

Life after the Storm: Voices of Women Survivors of Domestic Violence

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria P. Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Happy Family ◽  
Keywords Domestic Violence

Life is certainly not a fairytale and in this kind of situation, “happily ever after” is not very common. These are the stories of five women-survivors of domestic violence who dreamed of having a happy family, but in the end, their dreams contradicted reality. This interpretivist qualitative study was designed to look into a deeper understanding of collective accounts of women-survivors of domestic violence. The narrative inquiry was employed using the in-depth interview method. The study revealed that these women experienced various forms of domestic violence and were caused by men’s bad habits, problems arising from the family, and jealousy of a man or a woman. Several strategies were employed by these women to improve their lives. This tough decision to free themselves from the abuse made them better individuals, developed a stronger bond with their children, and increased faith in God.   Keywords - Domestic Violence, Violence against Women, and Children, Survivors

Lifestyle Movements as Social Networks: The Connections between Everyday Politics and Larger Collective Action in an Indian Feminist Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 894-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Nicholas Fuist ◽  
Elizabeth Mogford ◽  
Abhijit Das
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Fine Line

The sociology of social movements has often drawn a fine line between individualistic “lifestyle movements” and more politically oriented collective action. Yet, this distinction belies the fact that seemingly individualistic movements can generate cognitive maps and associational ties necessary for wider mobilization. Drawing on a qualitative study of the Indian men’s feminist movement Men’s Action to Stop Violence against Women (MASVAW), we examine how an ostensibly individualistically oriented lifestyle movement can create the potential for collective action through forging social networks of like-minded individuals who can draw on local knowledge of specific situations to quickly mobilize their peers. Through this, we contribute to the literature on social movement networks by synthesizing theorizing on lifestyle movements with theorizing on activist social networks, demonstrating how networks can shift movements between different modes of coordination, from individualistic and everyday to collective and activist.

scholarly journals You can’t burn the house down because of one bedbug: a qualitative study of changing gender norms in the prevention of violence against women and girls in an urban informal settlement in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Nayreen Daruwalla ◽  
Ketaki Hate ◽  
Preethi Pinto ◽  
Gauri Ambavkar ◽  
Bhaskar Kakad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Injunctive Norms ◽  
Descriptive Norms ◽  
Premarital Sexual

Background: The contribution of structural inequalities and societal legitimisation to violence against women, which 30% of women in India survived in the last year, is widely accepted. There is a consensus that interventions should aim to change gender norms, particularly through community mobilisation. How this should be done is less clear. Methods: We did a qualitative study in a large informal settlement in Mumbai, an environment in which 41% of the population live. After reviewing the anonymised records of consultations with 1653 survivors of violence, we conducted 5 focus group discussions and 13 individual interviews with 71 women and men representing a range of age groups and communities. We based the interviews on fictitious biographical vignettes to elicit responses and develop an understanding of social norms. We hypothesised that, in trying to change norms, we might exploit the disjunction between descriptive norms (beliefs about what others actually do) and injunctive norms (beliefs about what others think one ought to do), focusing program activities on evidence that descriptive norms are changing. Results: We found that descriptive and injunctive norms were relatively similar with regard to femininity, masculinity, the need for marriage and childbearing, resistance to separation and divorce, and disapproval of friendships between women and men. Some constraints on women’s dress and mobility were relaxing, but there were more substantial differences between descriptive and injunctive norms around women’s education, control of income and finances, and premarital sexual relationships. Conclusions: Programmatically, we hope to exploit these areas of mismatch in the context of injunctive norms generally inimical to violence against women. We propose that an under-appreciated strategy is expansion of the reference group: induction of relatively isolated women and men into broader social groups whose descriptive and injunctive norms do not tolerate violence.

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