Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality, Our Analysis, Patriarchy & Power, Transforming Gender Roles
Engendering Change: Transforming Gender Roles in Asian & Pacific Islander Communities grew out of a round-table discussion, convened by the API Institute, inviting battered women’s advocates and providers of Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) with the following...
Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis, Pacific Islanders, Patriarchy & Power
The notions and strategies of colonial domination are used by patriarchy to continue male dominance over women. We need to counter claims that colonization has led to violence against women, by pointing out that there is in fact a tight connection between colonization...
Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis
We have come to understand cultures to be stable patterns of beliefs, thoughts, traditions, values, and practices that are handed down from one generation to the next to ensure the continuity of these systems. In fact, traditions actually shift and change under...
Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis
Cultural defenses in domestic violence cases use politically expedient stereotypes of culture, forwarded by attorneys on behalf of defendants, to play into already existing negative depictions of culture. This raises difficult questions: Can we balance the strong...
Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis
Culture is too hastily understood as ethnic culture, but in fact we all inhabit multiple cultures simultaneously and need to understand which ones we are operating in to be effective. These training slides, authored by Dr. Sujata Warrier, can be used by advocates to...
Abusive International Marriage, Culture & Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Our Analysis
Advocates and community members from Fresno convened to examine domestic violence within the context of gender equity and how it impacts Fresno’s Hmong community. Participants identified steps that communities and systems can take to raise awareness, improve...
