scholarly journals When Wife-Beating Is Not Necessarily Abuse: A Feminist and Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Concept of Abuse as Expressed by Tibetan Survivors of Domestic Violence

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamsa Rajan

This article describes the views of Tibetan women who have experienced physical violence from male intimate partners. How they conceptualise abuse, their views on acceptable versus unacceptable hitting, and the acts besides hitting which they felt to be unacceptable or abusive, are explored. Views of survivors’ relatives/friends and men who have hit their wives are also included. Western-based domestic violence theory is shown to be incommensurate with abuse in particular socio-cultural settings. As feminist scholars emphasize listening deeply to voices of women in the global South, this article demonstrates how such listening might be undertaken when the views expressed by women diverge from feminism.

Dreaming ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Gackenbach ◽  
Yue Yu ◽  
Ming-Ni Lee

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly J. Hjerstedt ◽  
Ana Paula da Silva Rezende ◽  
Eduarda De Conti Dorea ◽  
Suilan Maria Sambrano Rossiter

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 422-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Nijdam-Jones ◽  
Diego Rivera ◽  
Barry Rosenfeld ◽  
Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla

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