Gender-based violence: perspectives form Africa the middle east and India/ Yanyi K Djamba & Sitawa R Kimuna

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1. Gender-based violence: perspectives from Africa -- 1. Socio-demographic factors associated with men's attitudes toward wife beating in Ethiopia -- 2. First intimate physical violence and fertility in Cameroon -- 3. Violence against young females in South Africa: an analysis of the current prevalence and previous levels of youth mortality 1997-2009 -- 4. Exploring the linkages between spousal violence and HIV in five sub-Saharan African countries -- Part 2. Gender-based violence: perspectives from the Middle East -- 5. Consanguineous marriage: protective or risk factr for intimate partner violence -- 6. Women and health in refugee settings: the case of displaced Syrian women in Lebanon -- 7. Gender dynamics in Palestinian society: domestic and political violence -- Part 3. Gender-based violence: perspectives from India -- 8. Examining nonconsensual sex and risk of reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections among young married women in India -- Questioning gender norms to promote sexual reproductive health among early adolescents: evidence from a school program in MUmbai India -- 10. Transmission of intergenerational spousal violence against women in India

This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the levels and the socio-demographic determinants of domestic violence, but topics ranging from men’s attitudes toward wife beating; domestic violence-related adolescent deaths, and women’s health problems due to sexual and physical abuse. With a comprehensive introduction that provides a comparative international research framework for discussing gender-based violence in these three unique regions, this volume provides a key basis for understanding gender-based violence on a more global level.