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Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response
Redefining Love in Western Belize
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2016
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Intimate Partner Violence and Advocate Response: Redefining Love in Western Belize offers new insight into the cross-cultural analysis of gender-based intimate partner violence by blending activist anthropology with in-depth ethnographic research to evaluate and help ameliorate the crisis in Belize. Drawing from twenty months of fieldwork in the Belizean Cayo District conducted between 2002 and 2013, Melissa A. Beske investigates the prevalence and complexity of partner abuse, the contributing cultural and structural factors, and the advocate dynamics across local, national, and transnational frameworks in combating the problem. Combining enlivened narratives, comparative viewpoints, and scholar-activism, this book not only illustrates the lived suffering of partner abuse in Cayo, but it also engages with the passionate commitment of survivors and supporters as they endeavor to create a more equitable and peaceful community. In doing so, it demonstrates an effective strategy for the interdisciplinary assessment of gender-based abuse, which satisfies demands for theoretical impartiality while simultaneously enabling researchers to take an ethical stand in social causes.
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2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-0360-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-0362-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
195
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter Two: Family Violence in Cayo No access Pages 25 - 46
Chapter Three: Ethnic Components of Intimate Partner Violence No access Pages 47 - 66
Chapter Four: “Private” Abuse Meets Public Structures No access Pages 67 - 88
Chapter Five: Partner Abuse and the Church No access Pages 89 - 102
Chapter Six: Partner Abuse and the State No access Pages 103 - 122
Chapter Seven: Activist Approaches No access Pages 123 - 142
Chapter Eight: The End Marks the Beginning No access Pages 143 - 154
