Through the Eyes of the Perpetrator: The Historical and Contemporary Cultural Context of Intimate Partner Violence in the Caribbean

Camille Huggins ()
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Chapter Chapter 17 in Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean, 2021, pp 299-315 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the historical and contemporary social cultural context of intimate partner relationships in the Caribbean among three predominant ethnic groups: Africans, Latinos, and Indians. Structural functionalism was used to examine the social cultural functions of male and female roles separately, as well as acting together in intimate relationships from a historical and contemporary perspective. It reviews contemporary perspectives on the idealism of marriage, matrifocality, and male hegemony. Roles and functions in intimate relationships persist from its historical underpinnings.

Keywords: Africans; Latinos; Indians; Structural functionalism; Matrifocality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5_17

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