Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• ali feizolahi ¹
• somayeh sadat shafiei ²
• khalil kamarbeigi ³
• zahra raiisi ⁴

¹ faculty member of ilam university

² faculty member of Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

³ phd candidate of Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

⁴ expert in behzisti,s organization

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the reason, conditions and consequences of experiencing ‎domestic violence in the lives of battered women. The research is qualitative and based on the ‎method of grounded theory. The target population of the research is the abused women who refer ‎to the social emergency of the Behzisti ‎ organization of Ilam city, and a sample of 24 of them has ‎been selected using the purposive sampling method. The Acceptance criteria were used for ‎accreditation and reliability was achieved through auditing method. Data were collected through ‎semi-structured interviews with 24 of them and coding were performed using Nvivo12 software. ‎Findings indicate the role of familal factors such as learned violence, problematic marriage ‎practices, non-supportive family; Social factors such as the erosion of social capital, the patriarchal ‎image; Economic factors such as economic deprivation, coincidence of Livelihood hardships; ‎and interpersonal and intervening factors such as mutual infidelity and deviancy have been two-‎way. Women's reactions are mainly actions containing passivity, and the usual perception of the ‎role of a continuous victim for women is its consequence‎

Keywords

• domestic violence
• patriarchal tradition
• normalization of violence
• battered woman
• Ilam

Main Subjects

• Sociology