Citation

Xie L, Eyre SL, Barker J. Violence Against Women 2018; 24(3): 307-321.

Affiliation

University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801217697207

PMID

29332527

Abstract

Domestic violence (DV) affects over a third of Chinese women in a relationship. Focusing on ethnographic data from six staff members and six DV survivors at a rural, state-affiliated women's center in China in 2010, this article relies on Henrietta Moore's notion of the poststructuralist gendered subject to examine how the staff draw on discourses about gender and social harmony in persuading women to stay in their marriages, rather than on human rights discourses that emphasize survivor safety. It shows that DV survivors are frequently sent back to dangerous homes where their health is placed at risk.

Language: en

Keywords

domestic violence; rural China; rural Chinese women