How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study
This paper contributes to the literature that studies how social norms sustain undesirable behavior. It establishes how norms contribute to intimate partner physical violence against women. First, norms organize physical violence as a domestic and private matter. Second, they organize physical viole...
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| author | Aloysious Nnyombi Paul Bukuluki Samuel Besigwa Jane Ocaya-Irama Charity Namara Beniamino Cislaghi |
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| description | This paper contributes to the literature that studies how social norms sustain undesirable behavior. It establishes how norms contribute to intimate partner physical violence against women. First, norms organize physical violence as a domestic and private matter. Second, they organize physical violence as a constituent part of women's lives, thereby normalizing women's experience of abuse. Third, norms define appropriate boundaries within which male partners perpetrate violence. The findings draw essential information for social change interventions that target improvement in women's and girls' wellbeing. For social and behavioral programmes to change harmful norms, they have to deconstruct physical violence as a private matter, advance the de-normalization of physical violence, and dismantle acceptable boundaries within which violence happens. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-076de74a3512449780398cbee56c28ee2022-12-22T02:36:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sociology2297-77752022-09-01710.3389/fsoc.2022.867024867024How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative studyAloysious Nnyombi0Paul Bukuluki1Samuel Besigwa2Jane Ocaya-Irama3Charity Namara4Beniamino Cislaghi5Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaSchool of Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, UgandaUniversity of Stirling, Stirling, United KingdomOxfam Novib in Uganda, Kampala, UgandaOxfam Novib in Uganda, Kampala, UgandaDepartment of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United KingdomThis paper contributes to the literature that studies how social norms sustain undesirable behavior. It establishes how norms contribute to intimate partner physical violence against women. First, norms organize physical violence as a domestic and private matter. Second, they organize physical violence as a constituent part of women's lives, thereby normalizing women's experience of abuse. Third, norms define appropriate boundaries within which male partners perpetrate violence. The findings draw essential information for social change interventions that target improvement in women's and girls' wellbeing. For social and behavioral programmes to change harmful norms, they have to deconstruct physical violence as a private matter, advance the de-normalization of physical violence, and dismantle acceptable boundaries within which violence happens.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.867024/fullsocial normsgender normsviolence against women and girlsphysical violencewomen's wellbeing |
| spellingShingle | Aloysious Nnyombi Paul Bukuluki Samuel Besigwa Jane Ocaya-Irama Charity Namara Beniamino Cislaghi How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study Frontiers in Sociology social norms gender norms violence against women and girls physical violence women's wellbeing |
| title | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
| title_full | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
| title_short | How social norms contribute to physical violence among ever-partnered women in Uganda: A qualitative study |
| title_sort | how social norms contribute to physical violence among ever partnered women in uganda a qualitative study |
| topic | social norms gender norms violence against women and girls physical violence women's wellbeing |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.867024/full |
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