Behavior, women, control, life conditions, violence, gender equality, gender norms, domestic violence
Domestic violence remains a major universal issue against women. WHO reports that one in three women will be subjected to physical or sexual violence by their lifetime partners at some point in their lives (Baholo et al., 2015). Surviving and leaving these relationships takes incredible resilience and often calls for victims to apply any number of coping strategies drawn out from the various works reviewed herein. The complex web of interpersonal, socio-cultural, and systemic factors highlighted by these sources is instrumental in making it a significant barrier to a woman's ability to separate and rebuild lives free from violence.
[...] Coping Strategies of Female Domestic Violence Domestic violence remains a major universal issue against women. WHO reports that one in three women will be subjected to physical or sexual violence by their lifetime partners at some point in their lives (Baholo et al., 2015). Surviving and leaving these relationships takes incredible resilience and often calls for victims to apply any number of coping strategies drawn out from the various works reviewed herein. The complex web of interpersonal, socio-cultural, and systemic factors highlighted by these sources is instrumental in making it a significant barrier to a woman's ability to separate and rebuild lives free from violence. [...]
[...] Rizo, C. F. (2016). Intimate partner violence-related stress and the coping experiences of survivors: "There's only so much a person can handle." Journal of family violence, 31, 581-593. Baholo, M., Christofides, N., Wright, A., Sikweyiya, Y., & Shai, N. J. (2015). Women's experiences leaving abusive relationships: a shelter-based qualitative study. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 17(5), 638-649. [...]
[...] It is this larger social change that would give efficacy to any short-term survivor support. The policy must be fundamentally based upon an intersectional, multi-systemic approach that locates gender-based violence as part of all oppression and inequity. In this way, solution development in the line has to be developed by participatory models directly involving the voices of the survivors and their agency in the process as well as in leadership. Survivors themselves repeatedly identified coping methods and articulated needs that program designs from the top down can miss (Rizo, 2016). [...]
[...] Comprehensive change, in the presence of political will, funding, accountability, and at the very center, the survivor voices, is absolutely possible and justice by itself (Domenech del Rio & Sirvent Garcia del Valle, 2019). References Alkhaldi et al. (2021), The power of women's faith in coping with intimate partner violence: Systematic literature review. Journal of religion and health, 60(6), 4278-4295. Domenech del Rio, I., & Sirvent Garcia del Valle, E. (2019). Influence of intimate partner violence severity on the help-seeking strategies of female victims and the influence of social reactions to violence disclosure on the process of leaving a violent relationship. Journal of interpersonal violence, 34(21-22), 4550-4571. [...]
[...] Flasch, P., Murray, C. E., & Crowe, A. (2017). Overcoming abuse: A phenomenological investigation of the journey to recovery from past intimate partner violence. Journal of interpersonal violence, 32(22), 3373-3401. Engel, B. (2023). The emotionally abusive relationship: How to stop being abused and how to stop abusing. John Wiley & Sons. [...]
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