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Les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles : vers une perspective intégrative des savoirs

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the notion of violence conjugale as "a social grave and persistant problem which enforces le tiers des femmes de la planete en a deja ete victime".
Abstract: La violence conjugale est un probleme social grave et persistant ; le tiers des femmes de la planete en a deja ete victime. Cet article vise a discuter des liens empiriques et theoriques entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles. L’article debutera par une breve mise en contexte decrivant comment la violence conjugale s’est construite comme un probleme socio-penal au Quebec. Les principales lacunes des connaissances actuelles dans le domaine seront ensuite identifiees, demontrant ainsi la necessite de mieux comprendre les liens complexes entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles, trois concepts dont les definitions pourraient s’enrichir et se completer mutuellement. Cet article soulignera l’importance de prendre en consideration les realites diversifiees auxquelles sont confrontes les acteurs concernes par ces violences (femmes, hommes et enfants), en privilegiant une analyse globale qui integre non seulement les facteurs individuels et interpersonnels, mais aussi les facteurs sociaux et structurels, notamment les oppressions liees au genre ou a d’autres marqueurs de l’identite sociale. La discussion sera enrichie par des modeles theoriques decrivant les differentes dynamiques de violences conjugales et familiales ainsi que par le feminisme intersectionnel, qui s’avere fort utile pour l’analyse des violences structurelles. La conclusion traitera des retombees potentielles d’une analyse des liens entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles sur les politiques sociales et les programmes d’intervention pour les victimes, les agresseurs et les enfants exposes a la violence conjugale.

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TL;DR: Results of individual semi-directed interviews reveal that RC can be difficult to acknowledge, and a thematic analysis demonstrates that awareness is modulated by the manifestations of RC and by the emotional bond with the perpetrator.
Abstract: Reproductive coercion (RC) is a form of violence perpetuated against women. It occurs when male partners adopt behaviors meant to control a woman's birth control or pregnancy despite her wishes. This amounts to interference with a woman's autonomy in reproductive decisions. The three main forms of RC are birth control sabotage (including nonconsensual condom removal), pregnancy coercion, and controlling the outcome of a pregnancy. This qualitative exploratory study examines issues in the acknowledgment of RC. Participants were 21 young women in Quebec (Canada), who had experienced this form of violence. Results of individual semi-directed interviews reveal that RC can be difficult to acknowledge. A thematic analysis demonstrates that awareness is modulated by the manifestations of RC and by the emotional bond with the perpetrator. Acknowledgment of RC behavior varies according to the form that is experienced: Nonconsensual condom removal is the most readily identified, whereas acknowledgment of pregnancy pressure and pregnancy coercion takes longer, requiring repeated incidents before it is identified as a form of violence. In addition, acknowledgment is facilitated when relationships are casual and uncommitted compared with romantic and committed. Moreover, reading about the issue, confiding in a friend or acquaintance, and finding a new partner who respects one's reproductive rights facilitate RC acknowledgment. In contrast, not self-identifying as a victim, assuming responsibility for the incident, having a limited understanding of sexual violence, and experiencing other forms of violence with an intimate partner contribute to impede RC acknowledgment. Results are discussed in terms of practical implications for young adults and health care professionals.

9 citations


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  • ...Various conceptualizations and typologies of the forms of violence have been proposed in the literature (Institut national de santé publique du Québec, 2018; Kelly & Johnson, 2008; Lessard et al., 2015; Nicolaidis & Vanya, 2009)....

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23 Mar 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present diverses perspectives of l'etude de la domination and les principaux concepts and postulats au coeur du feminisme intersectionnel.
Abstract: Cet article porte sur la pertinence d’analyser la violence structurelle faite aux femmes a partir d’une perspective feministe intersectionnelle. Apres avoir etudie l’evolution du concept de violence structurelle, il presente diverses perspectives de l’etude de la domination et les principaux concepts et postulats au coeur du feminisme intersectionnel. Finalement, le texte montre que cette perspective d’analyse amene un regard renouvele dans la facon de s’interesser a la violence structurelle vecue par les femmes.

6 citations

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TL;DR: Fapohunda and Masiagwala as discussed by the authors discussed the contributing factors of domestic violence in South Africa and to also add to the growing body of knowledge of Domestic Violence in the country and the region.
Abstract: The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines domestic violence as the deliberate use of force, power and threats against a person or group of people to bring about death or physical injury. This abusive behavior is used to gain or maintain control over the other intimate partner or family member. It usually results in physical, psychological, emotional sexual or economic harm. Most perpetrators are spouses and close family members. It cuts across different spheres of the society and can occur in couples; heterosexual, or homosexual and also between parents and children (child abuse). Research reported that out of 1394 men that partook in the 2016 representative sample of the South African Demographic and Health Survey, 50% of them were perpetrators of domestic violence in their own homes. Sadly, domestic violence has caused a lot of havoc in several families and life of individuals, these range from psychological trauma, anxiety, use of drugs, alcohol and other harmful substances, physical pain, emotional trauma, homelessness, economic crisis, to low self-esteem and death amongst other effects. The aim of our research is to understand the contributing factors of domestic violence in South Africa and to also add to the growing body of knowledge of domestic violence in the country and the region. Deducing from this conclusion, we can recommend that government should focus more on girl child education till tertiary level and women empowerment in terms of job creation to help reduce the occurrence of domestic violence in our society. Population scientists Tomiwa Fapohunda and Phathutshedzo Masiagwala and Professor demographer Nancy Stiegler from the University of Western Cape discuss in this interview the prevalence, population group, age, occupation, marital status, education attainment of the victims of domestic violence, with a view to establish factors that causes domestic violence in South-Africa.

6 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the adjustment of young women who witnessed mutual intimate partner violence (IPV) as children is influenced by their current perceptions of relations with their parents, and the perceived maternal rejection was a decisive factor for the presence of internalizing and/or externalizing problems among participants with IPV exposure.

6 citations

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15 Feb 2017
TL;DR: In this article, a revue critique de la documentation portant sur les realites des femmes qui avancent en âge (50 ans and plus), vivent en milieu rural franco-ontarien and sont victimes de violence conjugale, ainsi que sur les enjeux qu’elles rencontrent dans leurs parcours de sortie de violence.
Abstract: L’article presente une revue critique de la documentation portant sur les realites des femmes qui avancent en âge (50 ans et plus), vivent en milieu rural franco-ontarien et sont victimes de violence conjugale, ainsi que sur les enjeux qu’elles rencontrent dans leurs parcours de sortie de violence. Apres avoir defini les categories d’âge retenues, nous montrons notamment que ces femmes sont aux prises avec des contextes sociospatiaux, geographiques et economiques specifiques, lesquels engendrent des barrieres particulieres dans la sortie de la violence. De plus, la situation de minorisation vecue sur le plan sociolinguistique accroit certains de ces obstacles, tels que l’acces aux services publics et sociaux. Nous concluons en mettant en relief la dimension critique de la recension effectuee et proposons des pistes de recherche.

4 citations

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TL;DR: This paper explored the race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color and found that the experiences of women of colour are often the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism, and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourse of either feminism or antiracism.
Abstract: Over the last two decades, women have organized against the almost routine violence that shapes their lives. Drawing from the strength of shared experience, women have recognized that the political demands of millions speak more powerfully than the pleas of a few isolated voices. This politicization in turn has transformed the way we understand violence against women. For example, battering and rape, once seen as private (family matters) and aberrational (errant sexual aggression), are now largely recognized as part of a broad-scale system of domination that affects women as a class. This process of recognizing as social and systemic what was formerly perceived as isolated and individual has also characterized the identity politics of people of color and gays and lesbians, among others. For all these groups, identity-based politics has been a source of strength, community, and intellectual development. The embrace of identity politics, however, has been in tension with dominant conceptions of social justice. Race, gender, and other identity categories are most often treated in mainstream liberal discourse as vestiges of bias or domination-that is, as intrinsically negative frameworks in which social power works to exclude or marginalize those who are different. According to this understanding, our liberatory objective should be to empty such categories of any social significance. Yet implicit in certain strands of feminist and racial liberation movements, for example, is the view that the social power in delineating difference need not be the power of domination; it can instead be the source of political empowerment and social reconstruction. The problem with identity politics is not that it fails to transcend difference, as some critics charge, but rather the opposite- that it frequently conflates or ignores intra group differences. In the context of violence against women, this elision of difference is problematic, fundamentally because the violence that many women experience is often shaped by other dimensions of their identities, such as race and class. Moreover, ignoring differences within groups frequently contributes to tension among groups, another problem of identity politics that frustrates efforts to politicize violence against women. Feminist efforts to politicize experiences of women and antiracist efforts to politicize experiences of people of color' have frequently proceeded as though the issues and experiences they each detail occur on mutually exclusive terrains. Al-though racism and sexism readily intersect in the lives of real people, they seldom do in feminist and antiracist practices. And so, when the practices expound identity as "woman" or "person of color" as an either/or proposition, they relegate the identity of women of color to a location that resists telling. My objective here is to advance the telling of that location by exploring the race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color. Contemporary feminist and antiracist discourses have failed to consider the intersections of racism and patriarchy. Focusing on two dimensions of male violence against women-battering and rape-I consider how the experiences of women of color are frequently the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism, and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourse of either feminism or antiracism... Language: en

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"Les violences conjugales, familiale..." refers background in this paper

  • ...L’émergence de la perspective intersectionnelle est inhérente aux mouvements sociaux et aux luttes féministes des femmes afro-américaines et afro-britanniques dans les années 1970 et 1980 (Crenshaw, 1991 ; Anthias et Yuval-Davis, 1983 ; Collins, 2000)....

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  • ...Ces auteures dénoncent également que l’héritage culturel, l’esclavagisme et le colonialisme ne soient guère pris en considération dans le discours féministe majoritaire, décontextualisant l’expérience des femmes racisées (Collins, 2000 ; Crenshaw, 1991)....

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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The authors discusses structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes their real experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women.
Abstract: Contemporary feminist and antiracist discourses have failed to consider the intersections of racism and patriarchy. To overcome this difficulty, an original approach is suggested here: that of intersectionality. In the first part, the paper discusses structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes their real experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women. The focus is shifted in the second part to political intersectionality, with the analysis of how both feminist and antiracist politics have functioned in tandem to marginalize the issue of violence against women of color. Finally, the implications of the intersectional approach are addressed within the broader scope of contemporary identity politics.

11,901 citations

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09 Dec 1999
TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
Abstract: In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

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"Les violences conjugales, familiale..." refers background in this paper

  • ...L’émergence de la perspective intersectionnelle est inhérente aux mouvements sociaux et aux luttes féministes des femmes afro-américaines et afro-britanniques dans les années 1970 et 1980 (Crenshaw, 1991 ; Anthias et Yuval-Davis, 1983 ; Collins, 2000)....

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  • ...Ces auteures dénoncent également que l’héritage culturel, l’esclavagisme et le colonialisme ne soient guère pris en considération dans le discours féministe majoritaire, décontextualisant l’expérience des femmes racisées (Collins, 2000 ; Crenshaw, 1991)....

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TL;DR: The authors explored various analytical issues involved in conceptualizing the interrelationships of gender, class, race and ethnicity and other social divisions, and compared the debate on these issues that took place in Britain in the 1980s and around the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism.
Abstract: This article explores various analytical issues involved in conceptualizing the interrelationships of gender, class, race and ethnicity and other social divisions. It compares the debate on these issues that took place in Britain in the 1980s and around the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism. It examines issues such as the relative helpfulness of additive or mutually constitutive models of intersectional social divisions; the different analytical levels at which social divisions need to be studied, their ontological base and their relations to each other. The final section of the article attempts critically to assess a specific intersectional methodological approach for engaging in aid and human rights work in the South.

1,909 citations


"Les violences conjugales, familiale..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Selon cette approche, les interactions multiples et dynamiques entre les différents processus d’identification sociale produisent des expériences spécifiques d’oppression et de privilège (Anthias, 2013 ; Damant et al., 2008 ; Bilge, 2009 ; Oxman-Martinez et al., 2002 ; Yuval-Davis, 2006)....

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