Invisible Wounds
How do invisible forms of domestic violence shape women’s lives? Dr Abigal Muchecheti combines personal narrative, survivor testimony, and feminist analysis to expose emotional abuse, stigma, and the struggle for dignity.
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How do emotional and psychological wounds of domestic violence shape women’s dignity, identity, and survival?
In Invisible Wounds: Silence, Survival, and the Hidden Cost of Violence, Dr Abigal Muchecheti confronts the often-unseen realities of domestic violence, insisting that abuse extends far beyond physical harm. Through her deeply personal feminist autoethnography, Dr Abigal Muchecheti examines how betrayal, humiliation, enforced silence, and exposure to sexual risk inflict profound and lasting damage. Drawing on her lived experience, she explores how stigma, family silencing, and religious expectations intensified that harm, while reflecting on the double vulnerability created by disability. By weaving together personal narrative, anonymised survivor testimonies, and African and global feminist scholarship, Muchecheti bridges intimate experience with broader structural analysis, engaging the works of influential feminist thinkers to illuminate the intersections of violence, gender, disability, and power.
Accessible yet academically rigorous, this book reframes domestic violence not as a private tragedy but as a collective social responsibility. It calls for cultural, institutional, and systemic transformation while offering survivors recognition and advocates a powerful framework for challenging the silences surrounding emotional and psychological abuse.
Ideal for survivors, gender studies scholars, disability studies researchers, advocates, social workers, and students of African feminist thought seeking deeper insight into domestic violence, stigma, and women’s dignity.
How do emotional and psychological wounds of domestic violence shape women’s dignity, identity, and survival?
In Invisible Wounds: Silence, Survival, and the Hidden Cost of Violence, Dr Abigal Muchecheti confronts the often-unseen realities of domestic violence, insisting that abuse extends far beyond physical harm. Through her deeply personal feminist autoethnography, Dr Abigal Muchecheti examines how betrayal, humiliation, enforced silence, and exposure to sexual risk inflict profound and lasting damage. Drawing on her lived experience, she explores how stigma, family silencing, and religious expectations intensified that harm, while reflecting on the double vulnerability created by disability. By weaving together personal narrative, anonymised survivor testimonies, and African and global feminist scholarship, Muchecheti bridges intimate experience with broader structural analysis, engaging the works of influential feminist thinkers to illuminate the intersections of violence, gender, disability, and power.
Accessible yet academically rigorous, this book reframes domestic violence not as a private tragedy but as a collective social responsibility. It calls for cultural, institutional, and systemic transformation while offering survivors recognition and advocates a powerful framework for challenging the silences surrounding emotional and psychological abuse.
Ideal for survivors, gender studies scholars, disability studies researchers, advocates, social workers, and students of African feminist thought seeking deeper insight into domestic violence, stigma, and women’s dignity.
Dr Abigal Muchecheti is a Zimbabwean-British writer, researcher, and advocate whose work combines feminist scholarship, lived experience, and community activism to address domestic violence, disability, race, and systemic exclusion.
