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Introduction: “Don’t think twice, it’s alright”: Normalizing intimate violence
No full textThe chapter introduces the central idea behind this volume that makes it a unique contribution to literature on intimate violence. The volume reflects complexities of society and its institutions that enmesh interpersonal violence in patriarchal heteronormative ecosystems within which violence operates as a tool for maintaining inequalities in society. This chapter pivots violence as a manifestation of ‘entitlements’ based on gendered social hierarchies and critical intersectionalities. Ideological conditions created by legal, social, and economic structures allow the normalization of intimate violence. The anecdotal meets feminist theory to understand institutional responses to violence in intimate spaces. The focus remains the ecosystem of violence, the ‘space’ within which violence is situated. The volume proposes that while cis-men are the primary ‘actors’ of violence; state, society and its institutions are the ‘agents’ of violence
Blurred lines: Sexual abuse (or not) in ‘Big little lies’
No full textBig Little Lies, a television show, has been applauded for its deft depiction of domestic violence, infidelity, and childrearing, which helps the viewers in obtaining an insight into the societal conception of gender roles vis a vis the familial structure. However, it was reported that many viewers perceived the sex scenes between the two characters of the show, Celeste and Perry Wright, as sexy rather than as abusive, demonstrating a lack of clarity as to which sexual encounters constitute consensual sex and which, if at all, constitute sexual abuse. This chapter explores the blurred lines between consensual sex and sexual abuse in the abusive marriage of Celeste and Perry Wright. Additionally, this chapter demonstrates the intricate relationship between cinema, law, society, and domestic violence. I draw upon feminist and post-structuralist scholarship on the construction of familial structures, patriarchy, consent, domesticity, and sexual violence. This enables me to propose three distinct interpretations of the sexual relationship between Celeste and Perry Wright
Towards uniformity of rights: Muslim personal law, the domestic violence act, and the harmonization of family law in India
No full textLawyers collective, women’s rights initiative, prepared a craft law—the protection of women from domestic violence Act (pwdva)—in consultation with women’s groups from across the country to ensure emergency relief to women facing domestic violence. This law was passed by the Indian Parliament in 2005 and was brought in force by the government on 26 October 2006. Conflict in the shared household takes stock of the progress made towards achieving the objectives of the pwdva during the first decade of its implementation. It examines the nature of structural inequality that perpetuates and condones domestic violence as a lesser ‘wrong’ and traces the history of the fight against domestic violence in India, focusing on legislative developments and themes relating to state accountability in terms of providing a supportive framework
Natal family violence: Crisis interventions and paths to survival with LBT persons
No full textThis chapter engages with those queer and trans persons who are at the forefront of facilitating survivors of natal family violence out of their familial homes. Lesbian, bisexual, and transmasculine (LBT) identifying persons survive unique forms of natal family violence related to their gender-sexual intersectional locations. The chapter collaboratively engages in experiential-analytical documentation of crisis intervention in natal family violence. Eight of the authors named in this chapter from the COVID-19-induced lockdown have been directly involved with organizing ‘paths to survival’ along with LBT persons who have migrated from various districts in West Bengal to safer spaces. How do we deploy ‘crisis intervention’? What does it mean to organize ‘paths to survival’? What effects do these have on the mental health of the organizers? We conducted a reflexive focus group discussion amongst ourselves to understand the meaning of intervention, the process, and what it means to navigate families and police along the way. We do not seek to break the silence by publicizing the particular instances of natal family violence, but by engaging with the expectations of the organizers as they seek to create liveable lives with/for their peers who are looking for a way out of natal family violence. This chapter discusses the affective and methodological dimensions of intervening in instances of natal family violence, and what it may mean for survival and liveability. We expect to join critical voices who are working to break the heteropatriarchal status quo surrounding natal family homes in the absence of anti-discrimination laws
Documenting psychological tactics as violence in Meena Kandasamy's ‘When I Hit You Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’
No full textConversations on intimate partner violence focus on visible acts of physical, sexual, and mental abuse. The chapter explores psychological tactics such as gaslighting, isolation, intimidation, humiliation, and control as a distinct category of violence against the backdrop of Meena Kandasamy's ‘When I Hit You Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’. The narrator in the novel recounts her life after marriage to reveal to the reader the covert psychological tactics used by her husband that irrigate intimate spaces for more overt forms of violence to thrive. In doing so, the narrator draws our attention to the criticality and complexity of the true dimensions of intimate partner violence. The chapter analyses psychological tactics as emotional and psychological violence through the lens of the narrator's experience as a victim to fill critical gaps in the sociological understanding of intimate partner violence. The chapter draws on themes that emerge from the novel to demonstrate the role of gender imbalances within the institution of marriage that are critical in sustaining violence. The overarching objective of the analysis is to deepen and widen the ‘intimate violence framework’ to include psychological tactics as a serious form of violence
Navigating intimate spaces of violence: Global legal responses on female genital mutilation/cutting
No full textInternational human rights law recognizes Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) as a form of violence against women and girls and focuses on the urgency to eradicate this harmful cultural and religious practice through enactment of laws, supplemented by psychological and health support services. FGM/C operates within private-intimate spaces in the family and community. It is committed to control female sexuality and suppress female sexual desire. The violence of FGM/C is examined in this chapter as emanating and operating within patriarchal social structures and not simply as violence practiced and confined within the narrow walls of a specific culture or religion. The chapter presents an overview of the current global legal responses to address and eradicate FGM/C. In doing so, the chapter explores intimate spaces occupied by minor girls and their families, the tussle between individual, family, community, religion, culture and law and the challenges faced by States in navigating the complexity of rights regimes and criminal regimes to determine legal interventions that are likely to be effective, with the objective of assessing best practices emerging from several jurisdictions that have legislated on the subject
Violence in Intimate Spaces ::Law and Beyond /
No full textThis book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures. The volume has been conceptualized with the overarching objective to provide the reader with a collection of thoughtfully selected chapters that critically examine existing literature for an in-depth analysis of institutions through the lens of violence, beyond disciplinary and topical boundaries, from a range of methodologies. The book encourages reflections on the complexities of society, its institutions and gendered norms that enmesh violence and intimate relationships. It further examines the socio-normative contexts within which violence operates as a tool for maintaining inequalities in society. The chapters in this volume attempt to address questions such as: What are the complexities in the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim which sustain and legitimize violence? What are the diverse dimensions of violence in intimate relationships? What role does violence in intimate spaces play in preserving status quo and the pervasive gendered hierarchies within society and its institutions? Who is vulnerable to violence and why? The book covers conversations on intimate space violence and relationships that have not been explored hitherto in mainstream academic debates. The volume pivots violence fundamentally as a product of 'entitlements' based on gendered social hierarchies and critical intersectionalities to examine its manifestations in a variety of intimate situations and relationships beyond socio-cultural, religious and geographical boundaries. The book provides invaluable learnings for academics, researchers, students, lawyers, sociologists, social workers, health professionals and policymakers
The soundness of ‘unsoundness’: Marriage, divorce, and mental disability in India
No full textThe article argues that family laws in India that allow nullity and divorce on grounds of ‘unsoundness of mind’ and ‘mental disorder’ discriminate against persons with mental disability and violate international law on rights of the disabled. Drawing from international human rights law, contemporary disability rights principles and models of disability, the article presents a critical overview of family law and judgements on nullity and divorce on grounds of ‘unsoundness of mind’ and ‘mental disorder’ and builds a case for removal of mental disability as a ground for annulment and divorce
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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