The Impact of Culture and Minority Status on Women's Experience of Domestic Violence

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 318-332

  Kasturirangan, Aarati ^a   Krishnan, Sandhya ^a   Riger, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; domestic violence; ethnicity; race; worldview

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; MINORITY GROUP; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACCULTURATION; AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 16544393795     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524838004269487     Document Type: Article

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