Shifting gender roles: an analysis of violence against women in post-conflict Uganda

Anasuya Sengupta and Muriel Calo

Development in Practice, 2016, vol. 26, issue 3, 285-297

Abstract: Based on findings from a qualitative study in northern Uganda, this article explores factors leading to gender-based violence (GBV) in the post-conflict African context. The crisis of masculinity becomes crucial to understanding women's vulnerability to GBV. This crisis stems from the trauma of losing one's internal resources – socially constructed identity role and purpose, and one's external resources – wealth and productive assets. We find that armed conflict replaces the positive male identity as household head with a destructive model of masculinity. It is the interaction between negative masculinities and extreme poverty that characterises the prevalence of GBV in such conditions.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2016.1149151

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