Sexual Violence in Intimacy: Implications for Research and Policy in Global Health

Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks. Sexual violence in intimacy is a global pandemic that causes individual physical and emotional harm as well as wider social suffering.It is also legal and culturally condoned in much of the world.Bringing together international and interdisciplinary research, the book explores marital rape as individual suffering that is best understood in cultural and institutional context.Gendered narratives and large-scale surveys from India, Ghana and Africa Diasporas, Pacific Islands, Denmark, New Zealand, the United States, and beyond illuminate cross-cultural differences and commonalities.Methodological debates concerning etic and emic approaches and de-colonial challenges are addressed.Finally, a range of policy and intervention approaches-including art, state rhetoric, health care, and