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Yanyi K. Djamba Sitawa R. Kimuna Editors Gender-Based Violence Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India Gender-Based Violence Yanyi K. Djamba (cid:129) Sitawa R. Kimuna Editors Gender-Based Violence Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India Editors Yanyi K. Djamba Sitawa R. Kimuna Department of Sociology, Anthropology Department of Sociology and Geography East Carolina University Auburn University at Montgomery Greenville , NC , USA Montgomery , AL , USA ISBN 978-3-319-16669-8 ISBN 978-3-319-16670-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16670-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015939418 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 T his work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper S pringer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Part I Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from Africa 1 Socio-demographic Factors Associated with Men’s Attitudes Toward Wife Beating in Ethiopia .......................................................... 3 Yanyi K. Djamba , Sitawa R. Kimuna , and Mosisa G. Aga 2 First Intimate Physical Violence and Fertility in Cameroon .............. 17 Alice Jacqueline Azebaze Kagou and Hélène Kamdem Kamgno 3 Violence Against Young Females in South Africa: An Analysis of the Current Prevalence and Previous Levels of Youth Mortality, 1997–2009 ............................................................... 33 Nicole De Wet 4 Exploring the Linkages Between Spousal Violence and HIV in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries................................ 57 Kerry L. D. MacQuarrie , Rebecca Winter , and Sunita Kishor Part II Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from the Middle East 5 Consanguineous Marriage: Protective or Risk Factor for Intimate Partner Violence? .............................................................. 101 Jinan Usta , Marwan Khawaja , Dima Dandachi , and Mylene Tewtel 6 Women and Health in Refugee Settings: The Case of Displaced Syrian Women in Lebanon ..................................................................... 119 Jinan Usta and Amelia Reese Masterson 7 Gender Dynamics in Palestinian Society: Domestic and Political Violence ............................................................. 145 Sarah Memmi v vi Contents Part III Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from India 8 Examining Nonconsensual Sex and Risk of Reproductive Tract Infections and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Young Married Women in India .............................................. 169 Ajay Kumar Singh , Rabindra Kumar Sinha , and Ruchi Jain 9 Questioning Gender Norms to Promote Sexual Reproductive Health Among Early Adolescents: Evidence from a School Program in Mumbai, India .................................................................... 195 Pranita Achyut , Nandita Bhatla , and Ravi Verma 10 Transmission of Intergenerational Spousal Violence Against Women in India ......................................................................... 215 Aparna Mukherjee Index ................................................................................................................. 239 About the Editors Yanyi K. Djamba is Professor of Sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Louisiana State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Djamba has previously worked at Brown University and Southeastern Louisiana University, where his last position was Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator. He has received many professional awards and grants from different sources and has served as a consultant to a variety of organizations, as well as the United Nations. Dr. Djamba is the author and coauthors of many publications including S exual Health of Young People in the U.S. South (2012), S exual Behavior of Adolescents in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (2004), and numerous peer- reviewed articles and newspaper columns on population-related topics. Sitawa R. Kimuna i s Associate Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University. Her research is interdisciplinary and covers substantive areas from gender-based violence, social demography, population dynamics, and immigra- tion to sexual behavior and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and socioeconomic sup- port of older people. Dr. Kimuna’s Ph.D. degree in Sociology is from Kansas State University. She was a Population Reference Bureau Communications fellow and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow. She has served as a consultant to United Nations Population Fund Humanitarian Response Unit. Dr. Kimuna has publica- tions in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited a book, W omen in African Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Liberalization in the Twenty- First Century . vii Contributors Pranita Achyut International Center for Research on Women , New Delhi , India Mosisa G. Aga Auburn University at Montgomery , Montgomery , AL , USA Nandita Bhatla International Center for Research on Women , New Delhi , India Dima Dandachi American University of Beirut , Family Medicine Department, Beirut , Lebanon Yanyi K. Djamba Auburn University at Montgomery , Montgomery , AL , USA Ruchi Jain National Council for Applied Economic Research , New Delhi , India Alice Jacqueline Azebaze Kagou MINEPAT , Yaoundé , Cameroon Hélène Kamdem Kamgno IFORD , Yaoundé , Cameroon Marwan Khawaja UN-ESCWA , Beirut , Lebanon Sitawa R. Kimuna East Carolina University , Greenville , NC , USA Sunita Kishor The DHS Program , ICF International , Rockville , MD , USA Kerry L. D. MacQuarrie The DHS Program , Avenir Health , Glastonbury , CT , USA Amelia Reese Masterson American University of Beirut , Family Medicine Department, Beirut , Lebanon Sarah Memmi CEPED—Paris Descartes Sorbonne University , Paris , France Aparna Mukherjee D epartment of Population Policies and Programmes, I nternational Institute for Population Sciences , Mumbai , India Ajay Kumar Singh John Snow Research and Training Institute (JSI) , New Delhi , India Rabindra Kumar Sinha Independent Consultant , Mumbai , India ix
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