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Perilla,
J.L., Bakeman, R. & Norris, F.H. (1994). Culture and Domestic Violence:
The Ecology of Abused Latinas. Violence and Victims, 9(4),
(pp.325-338).
This study
examined the predictors of domestic violence within a sample of 60 immigrant
Latinas, of whom 30 had sought assistance for abuse and 30 had sought
other family services. Hypotheses were derived from several frameworks
relevant to understanding abuseintrapsychic (learned helplessness),
interpersonal (family violence), and feminist theory. Findings related
to the specific formulations were subsequently combined into a model
of abuse in which the mutuality of communication within the couple mediates
the effects of husband's intoxication and environmental stressors on
the occurrence/severity of abuse. The study points out the inadequacy
of relying on any one existing theory and supports the idea of taking
an ecological approach to the study of abuse in specific populations.
Perilla,
J.L. (1999). Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue: The Case of
Immigrant Latinos. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences,
21(2), (pp.107-133).
Using the
writings of the late social psychologist Ignacio Martin-Baro and other
Latin American and Latino social scientists as a framework, this article
examines the issue of domestic violence from a human rights perspective.
As suggested by these writers, the antecedents, dynamics, and effects
of domestic abuse are explored bringing to bear the historical, philosophical,
cultural, social, spiritual, and political realities of Latino immigrants
in the United States. From this ecological perspective, universal and
culture-specific elements of this phenomenon are considered. Finally,
Freire's idea of 'concientización' (consciousness) is used to
delineate levels of awareness and responsibility necessary to break
the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence in this population.
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