Table of Contents
Prologue: Understanding Marital Rape in Global Context
Kersti Yllö
Section I: Conceptualizing the Problem of Marital Rape
Chapter 1: Reconciling Cultural Difference in the Study of Marital
Rape
M. Gabriela Torres
Chapter 2: An Overview of Marital Rape Research in the United
States: Limitations and Implications for Cross-Cultural
Research
Raquel Kennedy Bergen
Chapter 3: Cross-Cultural Studies of Gender-Based Violence:
Holistic Approaches for Marital Rape Research
Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane
Section II: The Lived Experience of Rape in Marriage in a
Cross-Cultural Context
Chapter 4: Modern Marriage, Masculinity, and Intimate Partner
Violence in Nigeria
Daniel Jordan Smith
Chapter 5: Marital Sexual Violence, Structural Vulnerability, and
Misplaced Responsibility in Northern Viet Nam
Lynn Kwiatkowski
Chapter 6: Normalizing Suffering, Robadas, Coercive Power, and
Marital Unions Among Ladinas in Eastern Guatemala
Cecilia Menjívar
Chapter 7: Marital Rape and the Law: The Condition of Black
Township Women in South Africa's Democracy
Judith L. Singleton
Chapter 8: Marital Sexual Violence in Turkey
Henrica A.F.M. (Henriette) Jansen, Ilknur Yüksel-Kaptanoglu, Filiz
Kardam, and Banu Ergöçmen
Chapter 9: Rape and the Continuum of Sexual Abuse in Intimate
Relationships: Interviews with US Women from Different Social
Classes
James Ptacek
Chapter 10: Sexual Murder of Women Intimate Partners in Great
Britain
Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash
Section III: Public Health, Legal and Human Rights Approaches
Chapter 11: A Feminist Public Health Approach to Marital Rape
Jacquelyn Campbell, Bushra Sabri, Jocelyn Anderson, and Veronica
Barcelona de Mendoza
Chapter 12: Marital Rape Laws Globally: Rationales and Snapshots
Around the World
Michelle J. Anderson
Chapter 13: Human Rights Meets Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
Monica McWilliams and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Epilogue: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Future
Research
M. Gabriela Torres and Kersti Yllö
Kersti Yllö, MA, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College
(MA), where she held the Henrietta Jennings Chair for Outstanding
Teaching, and was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Estonia. She has
done research on domestic violence for nearly four decades and has
published numerous articles and books including License to Rape:
the Sexual Abuse of Wives (with David Finkelhor).
M. Gabriela Torres, MA, PhD, is Associate Professor of Anthropology
at Wheaton College (MA), and is a specialist in the study of the
violence and state formation. Her work focused on Guatemala has
been published in numerous journals and edited collections and has
been funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
"Marital Rape provides an insightful analysis of the laws, cultural
norms, and social practices surrounding marital rape throughout the
world. It makes clear that true sex equality requires sexual
autonomy in marriage. This book will be a valuable resource for
social scientists, lawyers, advocates, and government
officials."
--Jill Elaine Hasday, JD, Distinguished McKnight University
Professor and Centennial Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
Law School; author of Family Law Reimagined
"Co-edited by two pioneering feminist scholars, Marital Rape helps
fill a major gap in the social scientific literature on a topic
that continues to receive selective inattention from the media and
policymakers. More importantly, this path-breaking volume examines
marital rape globally and is interdisciplinary in nature. The
editors and contributors should be commended for enhancing our
knowledge of one of the world's most compelling social
problems."
--Walter S. DeKeseredy, MA, PhD, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair
of Social Sciences, West Virginia University; co-author, Violence
against Women in Pornography
"Even though rape within marriage is widespread, research on this
phenomenon has been greatly neglected. Marital Rape makes a very
important contribution by providing a sophisticated analysis of
this form of sexual assault. Taking a comparative perspective, the
authors argue that marital rape should be understood in the context
of culturally specific ideas about kinship and marriage. The book
joins perspectives from anthropology, sociology, human
rights, public health, and law to develop an insightful analysis
that seeks to reconcile respect for cultural difference with
women's entitlement to a good life and human rights."
--Sally Engle Merry, MA, PhD, Silver Professor, New York University
Department of Anthropology; author of Human Rights and Gender
Violence
"Marital Rape leverages the careful ethnographic work of
anthropology to document wide ranging and fluid understandings of
sex, consent and rape in marriage. Anthropologists in particular
point to the importance of understanding the lived experience of
sexual violence for the design of effective and culturally
sensitive public policy and practice."
--Anthropology News
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