Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China

by Tiantian Zheng

Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, this book brings to the forefront women's experiences of, negotiations about, and contestations against violence, and men's narratives about the reasons for their violence. Using an innovative methodology - online chat groups, it foregrounds the role of history, structural inequalities, and the cultural system of power hierarchy in situating and constructing intimate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350263435
• ISBN13: 9781350263437
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"