Abstract
Indigenous women in the United States are among the most vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV), which has reached endemic levels. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to understand contextual factors and barriers to becoming liberated from violence. Reconstructive analysis of data from a critical ethnography with a sample of 231 women across two tribes who described IPV relationships identified the following themes: controlling relationships, losing sense of priorities, using children, socioeconomic stress, family pressures, and restricting relationships. Results revealed these tactics, which parallel those used in the patriarchal colonialism of historical oppression, impeded women’s liberation from relationships.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3352-3374 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Violence Against Women |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2022 |
Funding
This work was supported, in part, by Award K12HD043451 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health [Krousel-Wood-PI; Catherine McKinley (formerly Burnette), Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholar]; and by U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AA028201. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
| Funder number |
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| U54 GM104940 |
| R01AA028201 |
| U54GM104940 |
| K12HD043451 |
Keywords
- Native American or American Indian or Indigenous
- barriers
- historical oppression
- intimate partner violence
- violence
