Sexual Violence in Intimacy

Name: Sexual Violence in Intimacy
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Sexual Violence in IntimacyImplications for Research and Policy in Global Health\nAuthor(s): M. Gabriela Torres, Kersti Yll\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367338121, 978-0367338121\nSynopsis\nIntegrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks.\n\nSexual violence in intimacy is a global pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well as wider social suffering. It is also legal and culturally condoned in much of the world. Bringing together international and interdisciplinary research, the book explores marital rape as individual suffering that is best understood in cultural and institutional context. Gendered narratives and large-scale surveys from India, Ghana and Africa Diasporas, Pacific Islands, Denmark, New Zealand, the United Stat.