Starting in the Homes: Patriarchy, Power, & Well-Being \nAddressing Intimate Gendered Violence Against South Asian Women in Montreal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
South Asian women’s organizations (SAWOs) in the United States and Canada have reported high prevalences of intimate gendered violence in their communities for several decades now despite a lacune in both research and attention. This project takes as its starting point the following question: what factors are involved in addressing intimate violence against South Asian women in Montreal and in supporting their well-being? Research methods are based on critical ethnography, writing against culture, and feminist anthropological frameworks and include participant observation, textual analysis, and interviews with front-line workers at and with members of the South Asian Women’s Community Centre of Montreal (SAWCC). This thesis is the start of a larger work which uses the analytical tool of mapping. This mapping begins in women’s homes, household and home country, looking at the patriarchal gender norms and ideologies which women are socialized into that maintain patriarchal power which are reproduced through key institutions of the family and marriage. Next, four major taboos, i.e. divorce, sex, mental health, and violence, are discussed to provide insight into how they shape women’s experiences and responses to violence and serve to keep the status quo of patriarchal power. Finally, interventions into these factors by SAWCC are discussed as possible methods for “pulling the roots” of women’s subordination through empowering South Asian women and changing norms. Lastly, the next steps for this analysis are named which entail the mapping out of remaining topographies of key factors that intersect and compound with those named in this thesis. This research found that addressing intimate gendered violence and supporting the well-being of South Asian women requires a critical understanding of specific realities at the intersection of ideological and structural factors, the role of (mis)understandings and use of the concept of culture in ‘fields of power’, integration of anti-racism into anti-violence work and services, and the recognition of the crucial work done by community and grassroots organizations that provide key interventions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".