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Article
Justification of Domestic Violence by Mexican Women
Author(s)
Gloria Gurrola Margarita Peña, Patricia Nava Balcazar
Eugenio Esteban Esquivel Santoveña
Alejandra Moysen Chimal, Juana Maria Esteban Valdes, Julieta Garay Lopez
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2012.12.006
Affiliation(s)
National Autonomus University of Mexico, Mexico, Mexico
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
National Autonomus University of Mexico, Mexico, Mexico
ABSTRACT
The main objective of this
study is to determine the construction that women living in intimate violent
partner relationship make about the reasons that men exercise on them. The
research involved 30 women that have voluntarily attended counseling services
at the victims of crime area, of which the Attorney General of the State of
Mexico’s office is in charge. The data collection techniques used were the
autobiography and in-depth interviews. For the analysis of results, qualitative
content analysis was used. The results indicate that women consider that the
violence they suffer from their partners is mainly caused by the consumption of
alcohol, violence learned and suffered at home, prevalence of machismo, as well
as certain psychological and physiological problems present at everyday life.
In addition, reasons for violence and attacks on women include a poor
performance of the work of women in their role as housewives, being
self-sufficient and making their own decisions and the very spouse’s family. The
authors infer that these two groups of conclusions tend to remove responsibility
on partners that usually exercise violence on their wives, induce the idea that
this problem is externally caused and that there is not any culpability on men.
Moreover, the explanation includes conscious intentions and willingness to
discipline females directly associated with the abuse over women due to the culturally and socially established roles.
KEYWORDS
domestic violence, women, constructivism
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