85% of domestic violence victims in the US were women, according to the estimation by the US Bureau of Justice based on national intimate partner and sexual violence surveys between 1993-2001. For every minute, 20 people in the US become victims of intimate partner violence. Why are there domestic violence? Why disproportionately more women are subject to intimate partner crimes? We wonder… Some people tend to hold the victims and survivors at fault for their mistreatment, blaming the victims’ “misconduct” or “mismanagement” of domestic relations for the violence they receive. Is the individual victim truly at fault? And is the partner alone at fault? What else is responsible, beyond the individual level?
History and past experiences can shed light on contemporary issues. Can you use facts, examples, and arguments offered by Bahadur’s Coolie Women (chapters 7 and 11) to refute this “victim blaming” mentality? In the case of Indian coolie women in colonial and contemporary Guiana, who and what practices or institutions had exacerbated the intensity and prevalence of domestic violence against migrant women? Was domestic violence tolerated? If so, why was it tolerated, and by whom? What could have been done yet may have failed to be done to prevent such crimes against women in Guiana? In the last paragraph, please include a short discussion of your own thoughts on domestic violence and it prevention
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