This book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures. The volume has been conceptualized with the overarching objective to provide the reader with a collection of thoughtfully selected chapters that critically examine existing literature for an in-depth analysis of institutions through the lens of violence, beyond disciplinary and topical boundaries, from a range of methodologies. The book encourages reflections on the complexities of society, its institutions and gendered norms that enmesh violence and intimate relationships. It further examines the socio-normative contexts within which violence operates as a tool for maintaining inequalities in society. The chapters in this volume attempt to address questions such as: What are the complexities in the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim which sustain and legitimize violence? What are the diverse dimensions of violence in intimate relationships? What role does violence in intimate spaces play in preserving status quo and the pervasive gendered hierarchies within society and its institutions? Who is vulnerable to violence and why? The book covers conversations on intimate space violence and relationships that have not been explored hitherto in mainstream academic debates. The volume pivots violence fundamentally as a product of ‘entitlements’ based on gendered social hierarchies and critical intersectionalities to examine its manifestations in a variety of intimate situations and relationships beyond socio-cultural, religious and geographical boundaries. The book provides invaluable learnings for academics, researchers, students, lawyers, sociologists, social workers, health professionals and policymakers.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Images from the Courts: Understanding Family, Violence and Gender through the Lens of Law and Literature.- Chapter 2. When Rights Collide: A Case Study of Laws on Violence against Wives and the Elderly .- Chapter 3. The Silence of Violence: A Socio-legal Examination of Psychological Violence on Women in Familial Spaces.- Chapter 4. Blurred Lines: Sexual Abuse (or not) in Big Little Lies.- Chapter 5. ‘Family Disruption’ as ‘Family Violence’ Rethinking Violence in Immigrant Families: Linking International Migration, Masculinity and Violence.- Chapter 6. LBT Persons Surviving Natal Family Violence: Interventions and Imaginations.- Chapter 7. Working with Men Violent to Intimate Partners : A Social Work Intervention Model.- Chapter 8. An Examination of the Married Body of a Woman as reflected through Marital Rape in Nigeria.- Chapter 9. The Joy of Motherhood, the Violence in Motherhood.- Chapter 10. Violence on Naga Mothers in the context of the Illegal Liquor Trade: A Studyin Kohima, Nagaland, India.- Chapter 11. Ethnographic Moments with Acid Attack Survivors: Ethical and Critical Inquiries.- Chapter 12. The Violence of Forcing Motherhood on Adolescent Girls in East Africa.