Gender Violence: Presenting a Grounded Theory

Introduction:The manjor focus of the current research is on gender violence.Based on public understanding, gender-based violence is considered private and family, and it is mainly practiced and justified with the aim of preserving the family and culture.The present study intends to analyze the forms, contexts, and consequences of gender violence among a sample of women in Sanandaj city through women's experience and understanding of violence in different social fields. Method:The method of the current research is grounded theory, during which interviews were conducted with 35 samples of women who had experienced violence in their lives.In the selection of samples, targeted sampling with maximum diversity was used. Findings:The studied women have experienced violence in different social fields.Gender socialization, institutional discrimination, and deprivation of power sources have shaped the contexts of gender violence.The experience of violence for women is mixed with disempowerment, neglect, institutional exclution, pervasive fear, and cynicism towards men and fatalism and escaping from society has become the most common strategy of the studied women in facing violence.Strategies that have led to the acceptance of conventional identity, fear and cynicism towards men and the absence of life politics.Discussion: Deprivation of power sources, lack of access to supportive social networks, institutional discrimination, and obstruction of organizational promotion show the fragility and vulnerability of women in various fields.The spread of violence can be seen more widespred than anything else the institutional and structural aspect of violence.Therefore, gender violence cannot be reduced to an individual issue and neglects the change and reform of the institutional and structural foundations of violence.