Adapting gender and development to local religious contexts : a decolonial approach to domestic violence in Ethiopia /

Adapting gender and development to local religious contexts : a decolonial approach to domestic violence in Ethiopia /

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This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia. Responding to recent consensus that gender mainstreaming approaches have failed to pr...

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Main Author: Istratii, Romina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge research in religion and development
Subjects:
YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān > Customs and practices.
Marriage > Ethiopia.
Family violence > Ethiopia.
Wife abuse > Ethiopia.
Marriage > Religious aspects.
Family violence > Religious aspects.
Wife abuse > Religious aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Third World Development
Online Access:Taylor & Francis
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyight Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: the metaphysics of gender and development
  • A brief genealogy of feminist thought around gender
  • Gender theory as a reflection of deeper metaphysics of humanity and gender
  • Western Euro centrism in the paradigm of gender and development
  • Religion in gender and development discourse
  • Domestic violence in gender and development and public health theory
  • A closer look at the epistemological premises of gender based violence research
  • Social norms and public health approaches
  • Accounting better for religious systems and the interface with human behaviour
  • Conducting gender sensitive research within local religious societies
  • The study in Aksum and its approach
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: Linguistic and cosmological translation
  • Revisiting feminist epistemologies in cross cultural gender studies
  • A closer look at gender and religious studies
  • Integrating theology in religious studies
  • Theology informed investigations in Ethiopia
  • Researching intimate partner violence in a safe and inclusive manner
  • Addressing the epistemological issues
  • Learning local languages
  • Making the 'I' visible in the research process
  • Integrating dialogical research methods
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: Intimate partner violence, gender and faith in Ethiopia
  • Directions in the scholarship and unaddressed questions
  • Women's status in Ethiopia historically and in post revolution Tigray
  • Gender specific socialisation and the influence of the clergy
  • The legal framework on domestic violence and reported cultural influences
  • An eclectic tradition with internal tensions
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: Conjugal abuse conceptualisations and attitudes
  • Researching conjugal abuse without a predefined terminology
  • Data on conjugal abuse
  • Participants' discourses of harmful conjugal behaviour and situations
  • Situational or interactional abuse
  • Gender related asymmetries
  • Physical violence
  • Serious conjugal crimes
  • Sexual coercion: a hardly ever discussed issue
  • Local attitudes toward harmful conjugal situations and behaviour
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: Marriage in the local normative framework

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