Gender Violence Experiences of Urban Adult Indigenous Women: Case Study

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Author(s): M. Cruz Sánchez Gómez (University of Salamanca, Spain), Antonio V. Martín García (University of Salamanca, Spain), Ana María Pinto Llorente (University of Salamanca, Spain), Paula Andrea Fernández Dávila (Universidad de Tarapaca, Chile)and Pamela Zapata Sepúlveda (Universidad de Tarapaca, Chile)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 22
Source title: Violence and Society: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch015

Keywords: Human Behavior & Psychology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Sociology

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This chapter deals with the problem of gender violence, especially in Chilean Aymara women. The aim of the study is to make a diagnosis of the indices and forms of domestic violence against women on the basis of gender in a sample of Aymara women from the urban area in the Arica and Parinacota Region (Chile). The chapter assumes the definition of intrafamiliar violence, according to the formulation adopted by Chilean legislation, as a complex and multi-determined phenomenon, which happens in the context of a culture and certain social relationships that support and make it possible. In this sense, it is one of the most dramatic manifestations of discrimination experienced by women because of their sexual condition. It is conceptualized as any form of physical, psychological-emotional, sexual, and/or economic abuse, which happens within the couple relationship, regardless of the legality of the bond. The chapter deals with the description of conditions and ways of life of the Aymara ethnic group, from socio-demographic, economic, and public health indicators that may be related to these women's perceptions concerning their situation in view of the intrafamiliar violence phenomenon. The research is a quantitative and qualitative multimethod design. The qualitative side of this study consists of group discussions in which the object of the research is analyzed through an outline ad hoc. The quantitative side of the research consists of the application of two standardized scales of domestic violence (WASTT and ISA).

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