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Home > Resources > Help-Seeking Within the Context of Patriarchy for Domestic Violence in Urban Uganda

Help-Seeking Within the Context of Patriarchy for Domestic Violence in Urban Uganda

Posted on November 16, 2021

Conducted in urban Kampala, this study examines the complex contexts within which women make decisions about reporting domestic violence. Based on an intersecting theoretical lens of structural violence, power, and the body, findings suggested that women reported to formal structures primarily for severe physical or economic abuse; women did not report less severe abuse, and often abandoned reporting even severe abuse. Yet, while overwhelmingly women were discouraged from reporting domestic abuse, there were important signs of change. Read More

Visit Link Source: Diane Gardsbane, Paul Bukuluki, and Tina Musuya

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