An International Study of the Contextual Effects of Gender Inequality on Intimate Partner Sexual Violence Against Women Students. (January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: LeSuer, Will
• Is Part Of: Feminist criminology. Volume 15:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 97
• Page End: 118
• Publication Date: 2020-01
• Subjects: intimate partner violence -- cross-national comparative -- sexual assault -- rape -- quantitative research; Feminist criminology -- Periodicals; Female offenders -- Periodicals; 364.37405
• DOI: 10.1177/1557085119842652
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1557-0851

Abstract

Rejecting biological and essentialist explanations, feminist scholars posit that gender inequality is a driving force behind sexual violence against women. Using an ecological approach, I test for significant associations between national-level gender inequality and intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV). I use multi-level generalized linear modeling to analyze the responses of 9, 126 women from 29 countries in the International Dating Violence Study. I find that while controlling for other risk factors, gender inequality is significantly associated with increased odds of having experienced severe, but not minor, forms of IPSV.