Understanding Marital Violence - A Case-Study From Northeast India

This book examines the roles and interconnections between structural factors and individual agency in marital violence, focusing on women in heterosexual marital relationships.

List of contents

1. Introduction. 2.Typology of marital violence and its impact: A capabilities approach. 3.Re-victimisation or secondary victimisation within and through the civil-criminal justice system. 4.Structure as context in marital violence. 5.Agency in marital violence as hybridisation of habitus and reflexivity: Locating its characteristics, enablers, and deterrents. 6.Conclusion. Appendix

About the author

Kausiki Sarma, PhD, is currently working as a Research Associate at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK.

Summary

This book examines the roles and interconnections between structural factors and individual agency in marital violence, focusing on women in heterosexual marital relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Kausiki Sarma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032694078
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269407-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Ethnic Studies, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, India, Personal & public health, Women's health, Social Work, Women’s health, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Personal and public health / health education, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, North East India