Section 1
Week 8
In the article "Intimate Partner Violence Among Asian Immigrant Communities" by Yeon-Shim Lee and Linda Hadeed, the authors discuss the reasons for such high prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among Asian-American women. The reason I chose the picture above is because the issues of IPV that Asian-American women is indeed and "unseen" and not well researched issue. Lee and Hadeed discuss how the prevalence of IPV is rooted in the traditional societal norms that many Asian-American immigrants have before migrating to the U.S. It is stated that many Asian cultures value men and their traditional role of providing for the family, while women are seen as subordinate and whose main jobs are to care for children and do domestic chores. Additional reasons that they hypothesized was that Asian American women were less likely to seek outside help if they were in an abusive relationship because of isolation.
As an Asian-American woman, this article is very important to me because it is one of the few that really delves into the issue and states that there is an inadequate amount of research regarding domestic violence in the Asian American community. It is also interesting because I grew up in a household where I never saw my father hit my mother. And when talking to my other Filipino friends, they also have never seen their father be physically abusive. Because there is such few research done, I wonder, do different subgroups of Asian Americans have similar or differing views with regards to violence against women? And if so, what cultural mindset makes certain Asian American subgroups value women more than others?
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