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Studying Domestic Violence in Chiapas, Mexico

Namino Melissa Glantz

Comitan Center for Health Research (CISC) in Chiapas, Mexico

David C. Halperin

Division of Population and Health at the College of the Southern Border (ECOSUR), Comitan Center for Health Research, Chiapas, Mexico

Linda M. Hunt

School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

Conjugal violence is common in the Border Region of Chiapas, Mexico, with serious repercussions for women's health and well-being. To understand local perceptions of and responses to violence, the authors conducted focused, open-ended ethnographic interviews with 40 nonindigenous, economically marginal women of the community. This article describes the data collection, analysis methodology, and findings concerning informants' concepts of the nature of this violence, its antecedent causes and consequences, and the strategies they employ to confront it. Such qualitative methods have advanced the authors' understanding of conjugal violence in this region, which they believe will lead to the development of appropriate interventions to ameliorate it and perhaps will prove useful in other regions sharing similar conditions of poverty, rural dispersion, and profound gender inequity.

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, 377-392 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/104973239800800308
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