Stigma as Social Control: Gender-Based Violence Stigma, Life Chances, and Moral Order in Kenya

Social Problems

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 447-462

  Barnett, Jessica Penwell ^a   Maticka Tyndale, Eleanor ^b   Kenya, Trócaire ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

gender based violence (GBV); intimate partner violence; Kenya; stigma; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014574260     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spw012     Document Type: Article

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