Low support for gender equality (GE) predicts attitudes supporting violence against women (VAW). However, little is known about the influence of attitudes toward different manifestations of GE. This study extends knowledge by assessing the relative strength of attitudes to GE across seven theoretically derived dimensions, and their association with...
Kadar govorimo o nasilju v družini, v 90% govorimo o nasilju nad ženskami. Nad njimi se izvajajo različne vrste nasilja in sicer psihično, fizično, ekonomsko, spolno in zanemarjanje. Vse te oblike nasilja negativno vplivajo na osebe, ki so preživele nasilje. V nasilnem odnosu se srečujejo z občutki ničvrednosti, nemoči, strahu, groze in izgubljenos...
Published in Violence and Gender
Domestic violence is known to be one of the most prevalent forms of gender-based violence in emergency contexts and anecdotal data during the COVID-19 pandemic suggest that related restrictions on movement may exacerbate such violence. As such, the purpose of this study was to measure differences in domestic violence incident reports from police da...
Published in Violence against women
Stigma presents specific ethical and epistemological problems for qualitative researchers of violence against women. Narrative research methods promise to enable ethical research on violence while still offering deep insight into stigmatized topics. This article describes narrative methods used in six focus group discussions and four in-depth inter...
Published in Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
After almost two decades in power, R. T. Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) have established authoritarian and Islamist governance in Turkey, which has adversely affected gender equality and women’s rights. So much so, that in 2009 the European Court of Human Rights acknowledged that there is a climate conducive to domestic violenc...
Published in Global Qualitative Nursing Research
Narrative data analysis aims to understand the stories’ content, structure, or function. However narrative data can also be used to examine how context influences self-concepts, relationship dynamics, and meaning-making. This methodological paper explores the potential of narrative analysis to discover and compare the processes by which culture sha...
Published in Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere
It is necessary to define violence against women and to understand the context in which it occurs in order to identify it. It can take several forms. The different strategies used by the abuser to exert control over the victim favour a climate of fear and loss of self-confidence. Finding herself in a form of dependency, it is difficult for the vict...
Published in Journal of women's health (2002)
Background: Few studies have investigated the association between violence against pregnant women in terms of recurrence, complications, and perpetrators of violence, and breastfeeding duration. This study verifies whether recurrent violence, violence with pregnancy complications, and intimate partner violence (IPV) against pregnant women are assoc...
Published in Qualitative health research
Health care encounters are opportunities for primary care practitioners to identify women experiencing domestic violence and abuse (DVA). Increasing DVA support in primary care is a global policy priority but discussion about DVA during consultations remains rare. This article explores how primary care teams in the United Kingdom negotiate the boun...
Published in Violence against women
This article analyzes the Twitter conversations carrying the hashtag #NiUnaMenos produced in Argentina during the time of the marches in 2015, 2016, and 2017, by adopting a quali-quantitative method. After describing the origins of NiUnaMenos, we illustrate the mobilizing force of femicide in a context of technopolitical use of social media by wome...
