Familial Power and Women’s Contradictory Responses to Attitudinal Questions About Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh

Abstract

Research is lacking on how power processes can influence women’s reporting of their attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Structural elements of textual data were investigated as potential evidence of latent power. Overall, the majority of the women switched their response at least once throughout the interview, and the context of these contradictory responses provide evidence that women’s reporting of attitudes about IPV against women may be understood as arising in part from latent power processes. New methodological tools are needed to better understand women’s personal attitudes about IPV against women.

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