الملخص الإنجليزي
SURVEYS FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE
world have shown that a woman is more likely to
be injured, raped or killed by an intimate partner
than by any other person. There are a myriad of sub tle but debilitating forms of violence directed towards
women: dowry-related or son preference that leads
to abortion of female fetuses, female infanticide and
bride-burning homicides. The list also includes misde meanours such as rape, sexual abuse, forced prostitu tion, female circumcision or genital mutilation.1, 2 Al though males are also abused by their female partners
and intimate partner violence is not exclusively a male
domain,3
for the present purpose, this paper will focus
on violence directed at women; that is, women assault ed or harmed physically, psychologically or emotionally
by their partner. The rationale for focusing on women
is based on the widely established opinion that a female
is more likely than the male to bear the adverse effect of
intimate partner violence. The saying, ''A hungry man is
a hungry man, but a hungry women is a hungry world",
may be relevant a metaphor in coming to grips with the
ill effects of abused women.
