Gender and Nationality: The Exploration of Intimate Violence in Taiwanese -Vietnamese Marriages with Statements of Taiwanese Male Abusers

• Main Authors: Hao-Ya Syu, 許皓雅
• Other Authors: Wen-Hui Tang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51940097489767595384

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 社會學系碩士班 === 98 === This paper aims to explore male abusers of intimate violence in Taiwanese- Vietnamese Marriages, and discuss opinions of their marriage and violated behaviors under the social structure. Hence, the research tries to figure out: 1.in what ways do these male-partners deal with the intimate violence and respond to potential changes of their marriages? 2.what are their strategies to maintain their power and masculinity in their marriage? 3.what would be the obstruction in their intimate relationship? With in-depth interview of six Taiwanese husbands, the results show that the imagination of perfect marriage in these male-partners’ mind is full of the traditional gender vision. That’s why these male-partners tend to reinforce the intimate violence when they find their partners couldn’t fit in with the ideal model. In fact, these male abusers could deny all counts about their violated behaviors later. Besides, male-partners even use ”gender” and “nationality” to rationalize their behaviors, such as accusing their female-partners with horrible family concepts, unfaithful, engaging in prostitution, cheating, and over- aggressive.