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Zakar, Rubeena; Zakar, Muhammad Zakria; Kramer, Alexander – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
This article documents the coping strategies adopted by women victims of spousal violence in Pakistan. By drawing on 21 in-depth interviews conducted in Lahore and Sialkot (Pakistan), we found that the women tried to cope with violence by using various strategies, both emotion focused (e.g., use of religion, placating the husband, etc.) and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Social Change, Females, Foreign Countries
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Dhaher, Enas A.; Mikolajczyk, Rafael T.; Maxwell, Annette E.; Kramer, Alexander – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
A total of 450 women were interviewed in Mother and Child Health Care Centers in three cities in West Bank, Palestine, to assess attitudes toward wife beating. Overall, women perceived wife beating to be justified if a wife insults her husband (59%), if she disobeys her husband (49%), if she neglects her children (37%), if she goes out without…
Descriptors: Spouses, Females, Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes