RT Article
T1 Peerformance: Bystanders Enacting and Challenging Gender Norms in Community-Based Theater to Prevent Domestic Violence
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 3/4
SP 922
OP 945
A1 Yoshihama, Mieko
A2 Hammock, Amy C.
A2 Baidoun, Fatmeh
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/178654315X
AB This study examined the gender beliefs and norms expressed by South Asian community members when intervening as bystanders in Peerformance, a publicly performed scene depicting a husband’s controlling behavior toward his wife enacted by a peer-led theater group. Using a grounded theory approach, inductive coding and reiterative visual analysis of videotaped bystander interactions revealed that, while most community members confronted the husband, beliefs about gender roles and relations impacted how these confrontations occurred. The complexity of gender norms in bystanders’ interventions calls for sociocultural tailoring; bystander programs must attend to the rich, within-group variations in community members’ attitudes and beliefs.
K1 Applied theater/theatre
K1 Intimate partner violence prevention
K1 Theater of the Oppressed
K1 South Asian immigrants
K1 Socioculturally relevant bystander program
DO 10.1177/10778012211014556