Collaborative Research: Property, Power, and Gender-based Violence

加州大学圣克鲁斯分校玛拉·戈德曼科罗拉多大学博尔德分校家庭暴力在国际上被认为是一个严重的公共卫生问题，对妇女的福祉有严重影响。与此同时，与艾滋病毒/艾滋病有关的风险增加了，特别是在撒哈拉以南非洲的妇女中。拟议的研究是一项以理论为重点的实证调查，旨在通过研究男女之间土地所有权的系统性差异是否造成了结构性不平等，从而理解暴力侵害妇女的社会过程，这种不平等导致东非妇女中家庭暴力和艾滋病毒感染率高得惊人。目标是在一个研究不足、妇女家庭暴力和艾滋病毒风险问题严重的地区，就土地所有权在预防对妇女的暴力行为方面的作用进行跨学科研究。在东非，土地所有权和控制权是权力和支配地位的标志，重要的是，坦桑尼亚的新立法通过维护妇女拥有土地的权利，挑战了传统的性别意识形态。由于暴力是一个社会问题，减少对妇女的暴力需要改变社会结构和性别意识形态，这些结构和意识形态使两性权力不平衡永久化。这项研究将采用准实验的纵向设计和深入的定性方法来加强大规模定量调查数据，以便调查土地所有权是否提供了一种支持和维持对妇女的暴力行为的潜在结构。美国社会和行为科学提出的理论和方法处于有利地位，可以在国际机构呼吁消除对妇女歧视和更好地理解赋权过程的确切领域进行高质量的科学研究。这种合作有助于整合不同但互补的概念和方法观点，以便更充分地了解使基于性别的暴力制度永久化的社会文化机制。更广泛的影响。拟议的研究有几个更广泛的影响。首先，这笔赠款将汇集美国和坦桑尼亚的研究人员，从而促进开展这一范围的研究项目所需的国际和跨学科合作。美国国内的社会科学研究有望在理解全球对妇女的暴力等社会行为方面取得突破。第二，促进跨社会科学领域的国际合作将促进有效的研究工作，从而在符合联合国促进性别平等和赋予妇女权力的千年发展目标的领域产生持久影响。许多国家正在发生如此迅速的巨大变化，研究人员如果要收集对理解这些变化至关重要的信息，就必须迅速行动。第三，青年研究人员在具有全球重要性的及时领域的合作旨在确保下一代研究人员在跨学科，合作的国际研究方面的专家。

SES-0921537Shelly GrabeUniversity of California-Santa CruzSES-0921507Mara GoldmanUniversity of Colorado-BoulderDomestic violence is recognized internationally as a serious public health problem with grave implications for the well-being of women. At the same time risks associated with HIV/AIDS have increased particularly among women across Sub-Saharan Africa. The proposed research is a theoretically focused empirical investigation aimed at understanding the social process of violence against women by examining whether systematic differences in land ownership between men and women create structural inequalities that contribute to the alarmingly high rates of domestic violence and HIV infection among women in East Africa. The goal is to pursue interdisciplinary research on the role of land ownership in the prevention of violence against women in an understudied region where the problems of domestic violence and HIV risk among women are acute. In East Africa, land ownership and control is a sign of power and dominance and, importantly, new legislation in Tanzania challenges traditional gender ideology by asserting women's rights to own land. Since violence represents a societal problem, reducing violence against women requires changes in social structures and gender ideologies that perpetuate gendered power imbalances. The study will employ a quasi-experimental, longitudinal design with in-depth qualitative methods to reinforce large-scale quantitative survey data in order to investigate whether land ownership provides one potential structure by which violence against women is supported and sustained. The theories and methodologies put forth by U.S. social and behavioral sciences are well positioned to permit high-quality scientific research in the exact areas of which international bodies are calling for the elimination of discrimination against women and a better understanding of empowerment processes. This collaboration facilitates the integration of different, but complimentary, conceptual and methodological perspectives to more fully understand the sociocultural mechanisms that perpetuate a system of gender-based violence.Broader Impacts. The proposed research has several broader impacts. First, the grant would bring together researchers from the U.S. and Tanzania, thereby facilitating the necessary international and interdisciplinary collaboration to conduct a research project of this scope. Research in the social sciences within the U.S. holds significant promise for making breakthroughs in understanding social behaviors such as violence against women globally. Second, promotion of international cooperation across the social sciences will foster effective research efforts that can achieve a lasting impact in areas consistent with the U.N. Development Millennium Goals to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women. Tremendous changes are occurring so rapidly in many nations that researchers must move quickly if they are to collect information crucial for understanding them. Third, the collaboration of junior researchers in a timely area of global importance is aimed at securing a future generation of researchers expert in interdisciplinary, collaborative international research.