Promoting Gender Equality: The Role of Ideology, Power, and Control in the Link Between Land Ownership and Violence in Nicaragua
Promoting Gender Equality: The Role of Ideology, Power, and Control in the Link Between Land Ownership and Violence in Nicaragua
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01221.x
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Grabe, Shelly
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作者：
Grabe, Shelly
学者们认为，体制上的不平等和对资源的控制与基于性别的暴力有关。然而，心理学家尚未重新定位他们的研究问题，以研究结构性不平等如何导致权力不平衡和基于性别的规范，使妇女的健康和安全受到长期威胁。这项研究提供了一个理论框架，并检查，假设土地所有权的作用，改变性别关系和妇女接受暴力，已提出的文献，但从来没有实证检验。在尼加拉瓜农村进行的调查显示，妇女拥有土地对传统的性别意识形态提出了挑战，并增加了妇女在婚姻关系中的权力和控制力，这反过来又减少了暴力行为。这些调查结果对在发展背景下讨论基于性别的暴力问题和采取能够导致对妇女更公平的政策的举措具有重要意义。这项研究将心理学置于妇女人权、全球化和社会变革的十字路口，提出了一个新的模型来理解不平等，并为社会正义提供了一个经验框架。
Scholars have argued that institutional inequities and control over resources are linked to gender-based violence. However, psychologists have yet to reposition their research questions to examine how structural inequities lead to power imbalances and gender-based norms that perpetuate threats to women's health and safety. This study provides a theoretical framework for, and an examination of, hypotheses surrounding the role of land ownership in shifting gender relations and women's receipt of violence that have been posed in the literature but never empirically tested. Surveys conducted in rural Nicaragua revealed that land ownership among women challenges traditional gender ideology and increases women's power and control within the marital relationship, which in turn, reduces levels of violence. The findings have important implications for the discussion of gender-based violence in the context of development and for initiatives that can lead to more equitable policies for women. The study puts psychology at the crossroads of women's human rights, globalization, and social change by putting forth a novel model for understanding inequality and providing an empirical framework for social justice.