RT Article
T1 Help-Seeking Within the Context of Patriarchy for Domestic Violence in Urban Uganda
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 1
SP 232
OP 254
A1 Gardsbane, Diane
A2 Bukuluki, Paul
A2 Musuya, Tina
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1776231481
AB This study in urban Kampala contributes to a growing evidence base about the complex contexts within which women make decisions about reporting domestic violence. Based on an intersecting theoretical lens of structural violence, power, and the body, findings suggested that women reported to formal structures primarily for severe physical or economic abuse. Women did not report less severe abuse, and often abandoned reporting even severe abuse, because of the overarching structural patriarchy and violence that exists, as well as women’s habitus that includes the embodiment of social norms that sanction reporting. Yet, while overwhelmingly women are discouraged from reporting domestic abuse, there were important signs of change.
K1 Uganda
K1 Patriarchy
K1 Social norms
K1 Habitus
K1 Structural Violence
K1 violence against women
K1 Help-seeking
DO 10.1177/1077801220985943