Abstract
Violence against women is a problem affecting women of all races, languages,religions, and ethnic groups all over the world. Violence against women is one of the mostimportant human rights issues.This study attempts to describe and discuss the varied forms of violence againstwomen. The results of the questionnaire given to seventy-five women show that violenceagainst women is not unidirectional but rather comes in many forms, such as physical,psychological, sexual, and economic violence. This vicious cycle starts at an early age andcontinues throughout their lives.Women?s knowledge of how to access education, how to avoid violence, and how toapply to legal justice is restricted. At the head of this restriction is the limitation to the rightto an education that happens when school-age girls are not sent to school. Even girls who doget to go to school are given an education which does not change the current system.Textbooks are used to intensify social gender roles and are a means by which social genderroles, with men as leaders and women in domestic roles, are reproduced. Therefore thesechildren are being educated as individuals who will maintain this system.The existing system is used especially as a means of controlling the sexuality ofwomen. In many different parts of the world it is thought that certain behaviors anddemeanor of women regarding traditional cultural activities blemishes the honor of thefamily.This study attempts to determine and render more comprehensible the lives, thoughts,ways of life, and most importantly, the points of view of women who despite their fearstruggle against domestic violence. One of the most important results of this study shows thatwomen who experience domestic violence express no hope for their future. They do not thinkthat they will be able to have a life different from the one they are currently living. The veryidea of a life free from violence seems to them very far.
