#MeToo on the Canadian Prairies: Raising Awareness of Sexual Assaults and Mental Health in Women Abused by Intimate Partners

Tutty, Leslie M.; Nixon, Kendra

doi:10.1177/10778012211032699

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“…The current secondary mixed-methods analysis provides in-depth, contextual information about the concerns faced by Canadian Indigenous women abused by their intimate partners. The results highlight the severity of their partner’s abusive behavior, including intimate partner sexual abuse (Tutty et al, 2023). It places their partner’s abusive behavior in the context of the women’s lives by exploring their backgrounds and current life circumstances, confirming the intersecting impacts of colonization, systemic oppression, and racism in their lives.…”

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My Parents, My Grandparents Went Through Residential School, and All this Abuse has Come From it: Examining Intimate Partner Violence Against Canadian Indigenous Women in the Context of Colonialism

Ogden

Tutty

2023

J Interpers Violence

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While the global rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) for Indigenous women have been acknowledged as substantial, few studies have incorporated an analysis of the impacts of colonization in the context of IPV. This secondary mixed-methods analysis explored the experiences of 40 Indigenous women from the Canadian prairie provinces who were abused by their intimate partners. The women discussed the impact of colonization, including the use of residential schools, to break down family life, spiritual beliefs, and languages, at times linking this to IPV. Of the 40 women, 38 described male partners as the abusers and two identified female abusive partners. Consistent with the literature, many of the male partners physically assaulted the respondents so severely that the women were injured and were at risk of death. Almost half of the men (47.4%) used sexually coercive strategies and/or sexually assaulted the women. Implications include the importance of professionals considering the broader historical experiences and possible trauma of Indigenous women who seek assistance for IPV from abusive partners.

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“…Partner sexual assault is an under-researched area (Bagwell-Grey et al, 2015; Logan et al, 2015; Tutty et al, 2023). Guggisberg (2019) suggested that Indigenous women may face even greater confusion given the legacy of colonization and intergenerational transmission of abuse, which also includes sexual assaults.…”

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My Parents, My Grandparents Went Through Residential School, and All this Abuse has Come From it: Examining Intimate Partner Violence Against Canadian Indigenous Women in the Context of Colonialism

Ogden

Tutty

2023

J Interpers Violence

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“…15 The Canadian prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) report higher violence against women than the rest of Canada. 19 Findings in these provinces highlight the harm violence has on women's lives 20 and emphasise the importance of considering women's contexts and intersecting identities (eg, cultural background, gender, disability) when developing person-centred interventions. [20][21][22][23] The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected the health of many individuals, especially among people already burdened by social and structural health inequities.…”

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“…19 Findings in these provinces highlight the harm violence has on women's lives 20 and emphasise the importance of considering women's contexts and intersecting identities (eg, cultural background, gender, disability) when developing person-centred interventions. [20][21][22][23] The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected the health of many individuals, especially among people already burdened by social and structural health inequities. 24 The pandemic also exacerbated mental health symptoms in many groups.…”

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Social and structural barriers and facilitators to HIV healthcare and harm reduction services for people experiencing syndemics in Manitoba: study protocol

Rueda,

Haworth-Brockman,

Sobie

et al. 2023

BMJ Open

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IntroductionIn Manitoba, Canada, there has been an increase in the number of people newly diagnosed with HIV and those not returning for regular HIV care. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in increased sex and gender disparities in disease risk and mortalities, decreased harm reduction services and reduced access to healthcare. These health crises intersect with increased drug use and drug poisoning deaths, houselessness and other structural and social factors most acutely among historically underserved groups. We aim to explore the social and structural barriers and facilitators to HIV care and harm reduction services experienced by people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Manitoba.Methods and analysisOur study draws on participatory action research design. Guiding the methodological design are the lived experiences of PLHIV. In-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews and quantitative questionnaires will be conducted with two groups: (1) persons aged ≥18 years living or newly diagnosed with HIV and (2) service providers who work with PLHIV. Data collection will include sex, gender, sociodemographic information, income and housing, experiences with the criminal justice system, sexual practices, substance use practices and harm reduction access, experiences with violence and support, HIV care journey (since diagnosis until present), childhood trauma and a decision-making questionnaire. Data will be analysed intersectionally, employing grounded theory for thematic analysis, sex-based and gender-based analysis and social determinants of health and syndemic framework to understand the experiences of PLHIV in Manitoba.Ethics and disseminationWe received approval from the University of Manitoba Health Ethics Research Board (HS25572; H2022:218), First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba, Nine Circles Community Health Centre, Shared Health Manitoba (SH2022:194) and 7th Street Health Access Centre. Findings will be disseminated using community-focused knowledge translation strategies identified by participants, peers, community members and organisations, and reported in conferences, peer-reviewed journals and a website (www.alltogether4ideas.org).

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“…Recent qualitative research on the ‘invisible impacts’ of IPSV (Tarzia, 2021a) supports this argument, suggesting that it is a combination of betrayal and loss of trust, the unique sexualised nature of the violence and its dehumanising aspects, and the lingering impact on future relationships and women’s sense of sexual wellbeing that set IPSV aside from other forms of violence in relationships. Other researchers have also attempted to disentangle IPSV from other forms of violence (Jeffrey & Barata, 2021; Tutty & Nixon, 2021; Wright et al, 2021), however, there is still a long way to go before we truly understand this complex and hidden phenomenon.…”

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“He’d Tell Me I was Frigid and Ugly and Force me to Have Sex with Him Anyway”: Women’s Experiences of Co-Occurring Sexual Violence and Psychological Abuse in Heterosexual Relationships

Tarzia

Hegarty

2022

J Interpers Violence

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Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a common yet hidden form of violence. It is primarily perpetrated against women by their male partners and is associated with a range of serious mental and physical health outcomes. Despite these harms, it is chronically under-researched. In particular, the overlaps between IPSV and psychological abuse in relationships are poorly understood. Extant literature has focused primarily on the relationship between IPSV and physical violence, neglecting the fact that IPSV often involves verbal or emotional coercion, threats or blackmail rather than the use of ‘force’. In this paper, we draw on reflexive thematic analysis of qualitative interviews with n = 38 victim/survivors of IPSV to explore how they understood the relationship between sexual and psychological abuse in their heterosexual relationships. Four themes were developed from this analysis: 1. I felt like I couldn't say Nno’; 2. I felt degraded and worthless; 3. Letting me know who’s boss; and 4. Making me feel crazy. These themes broadly correspond to four distinct patterns or interactions between IPSV and psychological abuse. Our findings strongly suggest that the relationship between sexual and psychological abuse in relationships is far more complex than previous research would indicate. Psychological abuse is not simply a tool to obtain sex and sexual violence is not only used as a mechanism of psychological control. Instead, the two forms of abuse interact in ways that can be unidirectional, bi-directional or simultaneous to develop and maintain an environment of fear and control and erode women’s self-worth.

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#MeToo on the Canadian Prairies: Raising Awareness of Sexual Assaults and Mental Health in Women Abused by Intimate Partners

Cited by 7 publications

References 82 publications

My Parents, My Grandparents Went Through Residential School, and All this Abuse has Come From it: Examining Intimate Partner Violence Against Canadian Indigenous Women in the Context of Colonialism

My Parents, My Grandparents Went Through Residential School, and All this Abuse has Come From it: Examining Intimate Partner Violence Against Canadian Indigenous Women in the Context of Colonialism

Social and structural barriers and facilitators to HIV healthcare and harm reduction services for people experiencing syndemics in Manitoba: study protocol

“He’d Tell Me I was Frigid and Ugly and Force me to Have Sex with Him Anyway”: Women’s Experiences of Co-Occurring Sexual Violence and Psychological Abuse in Heterosexual Relationships

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