Portraits of everyday rape and resistance in the Dominican Republic

This thesis explores the phenomenology of women???s sexuality in Santo Domingo in\ud response to current legislation around sexual and gendered violence in The Dominican\ud Republic as well as the lack of research on sexual violence in the Caribbean. Seventeen\ud women, recruited at random for individual, in-depth interviews, share experiences of sex,\ud pleasure and violence. Physical and emotional violence played a role in each woman???s\ud everyday life, as well as conscious and strategic actions to counteract and prevent\ud violence. Interviews paint portraits of everyday rape and resistance refracted through a\ud colonialist lens of inferiority, in which women conceptualize violence as an expected part\ud of living in a poor, Latin-Caribbean country