"Why Would You Marry a Serrana?" Women's Experiences of Identity-Based Violence in the Intimacy of their Homes in Lima

[...]india is a pejorative term for a woman whose phenotype, language, and dress are associated with rural areas and backwardness. On many occasions, he used a razor to scrape off nail polish Racquel put on her nails and to rip her clothes; he would tell her that she looked like a whore when she attempted to leave the house. [...]in Racquel's case, her experiences and her husband's violence are informed by her gender identity, but the lens of gender fails to capture the complete picture of how the attitude of her husband's parents facilitated, or at the very least reinforced, her husband's devalorization of her. [...]of men's migration to more modern, urban areas and women's continuous place in rural, poorer spaces, women define themselves as indigenous whereas men define themselves and are defined by their wives as mistis (mestizos). According to a recent sociological study on masculinity in three Peruvian cities (Cuzco, Iquitos, and Lima), lower and working class men believe that within marriage the woman should be patient, spiritual, submissive, and sacrifice for her family.