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Violent Intimacy
Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, this book brings to the forefront women's experiences of, negotiations about, and contestations against violence, and men's narratives about the reasons for their violence. Using an innovative methodology - online chat groups, it foregrounds the role of history, structural inequalities, and the cultural system of power hierarchy in situating and constructing intimate partner violence. Centering on men and women's narratives about violence, this book connects intimate partner violence with invisible structural violence - the historical, cultural, political, economic, and legal context that gives rise to and perpetuates violence against women. Through examining the ways in which women's lives are constrained by various forms of violence, hierarchy, and inequality, this book shows that violence against women is a structural issue that is historically produced and politically and culturally engaged.

Violent Intimacy

  • Tiantian Zheng

    The first ethnographic research on women's lived experiences of intimate partner violence in their daily lives in post-socialist China.
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    Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
    Publication Date: 28-07-2022
    Format: Hardback
    224 pages
  • About the Author

    Tiantian Zheng is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland. She has received two national book awards, and has testified before Congress, UNAIDS, and the United Nations on human trafficking and other issues, and has been a featured guest speaker on NPR, BBC, and NBC.

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