Decision-Making, Violence, Resistance, and Love : Contested and Complicating Narratives of Syrian Marriages

Within scholarly literature as well as reports from humanitarian actors, including international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), United Nations agencies and local NGOs, Syrian marriages are often described in static, essentialist ways that reinforce Orientalist assumptions. Based on feminist ethnographic research with Syrian women and men in Jordan, this article explores marriages in historical and intersectional context, before and during displacement. The article challenges common representations of Syrian marriages and advances how Syrian women's power and agency are understood. It emphasizes women's role in deciding to marry (or not) and discusses violence and love in marriage and resistance to proposed love marriages.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

2023

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Violence against women - 30(2023), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 31-53

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lokot, Michelle [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Gender-based violence
Journal Article
Marriage
Refugees
Syria

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Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 16.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/10778012231207037

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363152946