THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN KADUNA TOWN
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN KADUNA TOWN
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Date
2014-03-17
Authors
CHRISTIANA, KANTIYOK DAVID
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Abstract
This study, the social context of violence against women in Kaduna town, is
based in Marxian theory which advocates fundamental changes in the society as Regards
women. It is also guided by the radical feminists who regard patriarchy as the most
pervasive and enduring system in women oppression.
Data were collected from five social welfare offices. These are: two state social
welfare offices and two Local Government Social Welfare Offices in Kaduna where a
total of one hundred and twenty (120) case records were studied. five clients were then
selected for intensive case study from the medical social welfare office of the Ahmadu
Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna. This brings the total number of social
welfare offices to five. The choice of the research area was determined by the
industrialized nature of of the town which makes it possible for many ethnic groups to
be represented.
The data were coded manually to find out the relationship between the economic
status of women and the extent and prevalence of violence against them as well as the
relationship between social class and the experience of violence. Frequency distribution
tables were used as well as percentages, and in a few eases, cross tabulation,
In the findings, age distribution of the women shows that women aged between
15 and 35 years experience more-violence than older and younger women. Married
women suffer more battering as a form of violence, single and divorced women suffer
more abuse, while widowed women suffer more deprivation as a form of violence.
Description
A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirement for the award of the Degree of Master
of Science (Sociology) with specialization in
Medical Sociology to the Department of Sociology,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Keywords
SOCIAL CONTEXT, VIOLENCE, WOMEN, KADUNA