RT Article
T1 Social Dynamics, Gendered Subjectivities, and Surreptitious Acts of Agency From Women to Face Intimate Partner Violence in a Rural Community of Peru
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 9
SP 2200
OP 2226
A1 Bracco Bruce, Lucia
A2 Rodríguez Campos, María Teresa
A2 Velázquez, Tesania
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1891167308
AB The article analyzes women's inner subjective processes while engaged in male-to-female intimate partner violence (IPV) situations. Through in-depth interviews with 12 women who had suffered violence in a rural community in Peru, it examines three topics: social dynamics that simultaneously contribute to resist within and openly question IPV, the transformations of hegemonic femininity in the community and the implications on their gendered subjectivities, and women's surreptitious acts and processes of agency to recalibrate power within their situation of IPV. In conclusion, women experience inner psychic tensions about themselves, their partners, and their relationships, which enables them to question IPV while resisting within the violent situation.
K1 Peru
K1 Resistance
K1 Agency
K1 Subjectivity
K1 Intimate Partner Violence
DO 10.1177/10778012221142916