What is behind that closed door?------ Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy in China
(2011) SIMT19 20111Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender
- Abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to examine intimate partner violence (IPV) towards pregnant
women, with the ambition of fulfilling the gap of available knowledge about this complex
subject area, in the Chinese context.
The specific objects are: 1) to assess the risk factors and forms associated with
intimate partner violence during pregnancy 2) to explore the social dynamics and gender
power relations that underline intimate partner violence during pregnancy by exploring
the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of survivors and professionals about violence
during pregnancy, connection of domestic violence and coping strategies of domestic
violence survivors. It was a qualitative study involving 8 semi-structured ... (More) - The aim of this thesis is to examine intimate partner violence (IPV) towards pregnant
women, with the ambition of fulfilling the gap of available knowledge about this complex
subject area, in the Chinese context.
The specific objects are: 1) to assess the risk factors and forms associated with
intimate partner violence during pregnancy 2) to explore the social dynamics and gender
power relations that underline intimate partner violence during pregnancy by exploring
the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of survivors and professionals about violence
during pregnancy, connection of domestic violence and coping strategies of domestic
violence survivors. It was a qualitative study involving 8 semi-structured interviews and
2011. Data was analyzed by narrative analysis.
The results indicated the complexity of the issue of IPV during pregnancy from the viewpoints of both professionals and women. The women who had been subjected to
violence described their complicated lives as "living in hell where their partners turned
into perpetrators". None of the four women left the violent relationships during
pregnancy because of multiple reasons. Struggling to find a way to go, these women
floundered between hope and despair. Professionals viewed pregnancy as a potential
trigger for conflicts and violence. What is more, professional analysed IPV during
pregnancy from multifarious perspectives under Chinese specific social and cultural
context.
The findings of research support feminist theory that intimate partner violence during
pregnancy is a result from unequal gender power within patriarchal society. Additionally,
the findings can be explained by the ecological model of gender-based violence by
illustrating how the meaning of violence is constructed through the interaction of events
and circumstances operating at different levels. The traumatic bonding theory and
Landenburger’s coping theory are suitable to apply to intimate partner violence during
pregnancy in a degree. The findings also show positive perspectives of women’s
reactions which is contrary to the argument by Landenburger’s coping theory, and
therefore not suitable to be used to study IPV during pregnancy. More importantly, it also
contributes to break the stereotype that survivors are passive victims. Finally, the experience in this paper might be transcended single cultural context to be common to
women in other countries in the world. (Less)
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- author
- Yang, Xiaojie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMT19 20111
- year
- 2011
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- IPV, pregnancy, feminist perspective, ecological theory, traumatic bonding theory, Landenburger’s coping strategies
- language
- English
- id
- 2155743
- date added to LUP
- 2011-10-06 08:04:28
- date last changed
- 2022-07-27 03:40:40
@misc{2155743, abstract = {{The aim of this thesis is to examine intimate partner violence (IPV) towards pregnant women, with the ambition of fulfilling the gap of available knowledge about this complex subject area, in the Chinese context. The specific objects are: 1) to assess the risk factors and forms associated with intimate partner violence during pregnancy 2) to explore the social dynamics and gender power relations that underline intimate partner violence during pregnancy by exploring the perceptions, attitudes and experiences of survivors and professionals about violence during pregnancy, connection of domestic violence and coping strategies of domestic violence survivors. It was a qualitative study involving 8 semi-structured interviews and 2011. Data was analyzed by narrative analysis. The results indicated the complexity of the issue of IPV during pregnancy from the viewpoints of both professionals and women. The women who had been subjected to violence described their complicated lives as "living in hell where their partners turned into perpetrators". None of the four women left the violent relationships during pregnancy because of multiple reasons. Struggling to find a way to go, these women floundered between hope and despair. Professionals viewed pregnancy as a potential trigger for conflicts and violence. What is more, professional analysed IPV during pregnancy from multifarious perspectives under Chinese specific social and cultural context. The findings of research support feminist theory that intimate partner violence during pregnancy is a result from unequal gender power within patriarchal society. Additionally, the findings can be explained by the ecological model of gender-based violence by illustrating how the meaning of violence is constructed through the interaction of events and circumstances operating at different levels. The traumatic bonding theory and Landenburger’s coping theory are suitable to apply to intimate partner violence during pregnancy in a degree. The findings also show positive perspectives of women’s reactions which is contrary to the argument by Landenburger’s coping theory, and therefore not suitable to be used to study IPV during pregnancy. More importantly, it also contributes to break the stereotype that survivors are passive victims. Finally, the experience in this paper might be transcended single cultural context to be common to women in other countries in the world.}}, author = {{Yang, Xiaojie}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{What is behind that closed door?------ Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy in China}}, year = {{2011}}, }