Title

Doing Survival: Strategies For Coping With Gender-Based Violence In Kenya'S Kibera Slum

Keywords

gender-based violence; Global South; slums; women's diaries

Abstract

The current study analyzed strategies for coping with gender-based violence described in the diary accounts of 20 women residents of Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa. Three distinct strategies are reported: endurance and faith, escape, and limited partnership. Previous qualitative studies of this population report acceptance of gender-based violence, based on lack of education and patriarchal social norms. The current study indicates that coping strategies may sometimes be agential choices made by women negotiating a complex web of structural oppression. Implications for practice are discussed. © 2012 SAGE Publications.

Publication Date

2-1-2013

Publication Title

Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work

Volume

28

Issue

1

Number of Pages

40-50

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109912470111

Socpus ID

84875341417 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84875341417

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