Violence against Deaf Women from an Intersectional Framework

This research aimed to analyse the association between violence with linguistic knowledge in Mexican Sign Language (LSM) and sociodemographic data of Mexican Deaf women. To collect data from an intersectional framework, this study applied an opportunistic and chain sampling of ۴۶ Deaf women from different areas of Mexico. Methods included in-person and remote interviews. Forty-one per cent of women indicated that they had been victims of abuse by their partner. In comparison, ۷۳.۹% of women had suffered some abuse in schools, and ۳۹% of women had been victims of sexual abuse. The analyses with Spearman bivariate correlation showed that as the LSM learning age of the Deaf women increased, the levels of labour abuse (rs =.۵۰, p <.۰۰۰۱), violence in a bank (rs =.۵۱, p <.۰۰۰۱), violence in school (rs =.۵۶, p <.۰۰۰۱), and violence by an interpreter (rs =.۴۵, p <.۰۱) increased too. Results also revealed that a more excellent LSM family knowledge of LSM is moderately related to less labour abuse (rs = -.۵۳, p <.۰۰۰۱), violence in a bank (rs = -.۴۵, p <.۰۱), violence in school (rs = -.۴۳, p <.۰۱), violence by an interpreter (rs = -.۳۹, p <.۰۱), and with lower magnitude to institutional violence (rs = -.۳۷, p <.۰۵).

کلیدواژه ها:

Mexico ، Deaf ، women ، Mexican Sign Language ، violence ، intersectionality