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Kwiatkowski’s analysis is based on fieldwork in northern Vietnam in two communities in Hà Nội and in a counseling center for women. She explores the emerging cultural discourses surrounding marital sexual violence and the structural vulnerability of women subject to such violence. The emerging laws, discourses, and practices surrounding the prevention of domestic violence do conceptualize it as a social problem. Nevertheless, women who experience sexual violence in marriage are considered individually responsible to speak publicly about their abuse to stop it. While this is understandable in the cultural context of muted responses to sexual concerns found in northern Việt Nam, this chapter argues that this misplaced responsibility contradicts the state’s intention of addressing domestic violence. Increased support for abused women along with a recognition that husbands also are responsible for the Vietnamese cultural value of happy family are needed to address the problem of sexual violence in marriage.
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