Web resource:	http://www.waikato.ac.nz/law/research/waikato_law_review/volume_4,_issue_1,_1996
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Violence against Filipino women in Australia: race, class and gender
Other Titles:	Waikato law review : Taumauri
Authors:	Stubbs, Julie Cunneen, Chris
Keywords:	CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse)
Year:	1996
Publisher:	Waikato University School of Law
Citation:	4 (1), 1996
Notes:	Presents preliminary findings from an ongoing research study about violence against Filipino women in Australia. The research adopts an intersectional analysis which examines the manner in which Filipino women are constituted with respect to race/ethnicity, class and gender, and other axes of social location, such as age. The research is framed within the context of relations between “developing” and “developed” countries, in particular, the exploitative nature of that relationship in general political economy terms, as well as the specific gendered form of the relationship in First World men and Third World women. Reviews 17 homicides (involving13 women and four children). There were no cases in which the known offender or suspect was not in an intimate relationship with the victim. Case studies illustrate two interwoven processes: violence emerges as a resolution to conflict for the male when he attempts to assert absolute dominance and authority; and the Filipino women who marry Western men to leave the Philippines become reinvented by the legal process as manipulative and self-seeking.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12853
ISSN:	11729597
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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