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Domestic Violence in the African North

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This article argues that while North Africa has witnessed deep social, economic and political transformations in the last three decades, there is a need to reopen the old debates on domestic violence in new ways that address these new transformations. The article raises a number of questions: Are the theoretical debates on domestic violence in the 70s and 80s still valid for the present times? What impact do the significant advances on the legal, economic and political fronts have on these debates? What role could the changing notion of the family, perceived as a central safe haven in North African societies, have on these debates? In an attempt to answer these questions, this paper is organized as follows: Section 1 presents the changing nature of the family in the region and Section 2 looks at the state of affairs with regard to domestic violence in the African North. The last section presents new ways of dealing with domestic violence but concludes that much is still to be done.

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: Feminist Africa.,
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