Melissa Beske

Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response (eBook, ePUB)

Redefining Love in Western Belize

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response: Redefining Love in Western Belize offers new insight into the cross-cultural analysis of gender-based intimate partner violence by blending activist anthropology with in-depth ethnographic research to evaluate and help ameliorate the crisis in Belize. Drawing from twenty months of fieldwork in the Belizean Cayo District conducted between 2002 and 2013, Melissa A. Beske investigates the prevalence and complexity of partner abuse, the contributing cultural and structural factors, and the advocate dynamics across local, national, and transnational frameworks in combating the problem. Combining enlivened narratives, comparative viewpoints, and scholar-activism, this book not only illustrates the lived suffering of partner abuse in Cayo, but it also engages with the passionate commitment of survivors and supporters as they endeavor to create a more equitable and peaceful community. In doing so, it demonstrates an effective strategy for the interdisciplinary assessment of gender-based abuse, which satisfies demands for theoretical impartiality while simultaneously enabling researchers to take an ethical stand in social causes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498503624
• Artikelnr.: 45482940

Autorenporträt

By Melissa Beske

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Family Violence in Cayo
Chapter 3 - Ethnic Components of Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 4 - "Private" Abuse Meets Public Structures: Economics, Healthcare,
and Education
Chapter 5 - Partner Abuse and the Church
Chapter 6 - Partner Abuse and the State
Chapter 7 - Activist Approaches
Chapter 8 - Conclusion: The End Marks the Beginning
Epilogue