%0 Journal Article
%T Doing survival: strategies for coping with gender-based violence in Kenya's Kibera slum
%J Affilia
%D 2013
%A Swart, Elizabeth
%V 28
%N 1
%P 40-50
%X The current study analyzed strategies for coping with gender-based violence described in the diary accounts of 20 women residents of Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa. Three distinct strategies are reported: endurance and faith, escape, and limited partnership. Previous qualitative studies of this population report acceptance of gender-based violence, based on lack of education and patriarchal social norms. The current study indicates that coping strategies may sometimes be agential choices made by women negotiating a complex web of structural oppression. Implications for practice are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 0886-1099
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109912470111