Rabiul Karim K M
Department of Social Work, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Int Q Community Health Educ. 2005;25(4):367-80. doi: 10.2190/1568-2652-7422-7921.
Arrack, indigenously made and known as tari, is a widely-used alcoholic beverage among poor drinkers in rural Bangladesh. This study examines the influences of men's arrack drinking habits on violence against women at the family level in Parbattipur, a typical village of northwest Bangladesh. Fifty purposively-selected married male arrack drinkers as well as their wives were interviewed singly by using a semi-structured questionnaire. Results show that arrack drinkers suffer from behavioral abnormalities. It creates family problems and women are often victimized by their husbands' drunken behaviors. Although violence against women is a common phenomenon in rural Bangladesh, it is argued that men's habitual arrack drinking behaviors, through the interplay of a patriarchal family structure, are directly linked with incidences of violence against women within marriage.
阿拉克酒是孟加拉国本土酿造的，当地人称之为塔里酒，是孟加拉国农村贫困饮酒者广泛饮用的一种酒精饮料。本研究考察了在孟加拉国西北部一个典型村庄帕尔巴蒂布尔，男性饮用阿拉克酒的习惯对家庭层面暴力侵害妇女行为的影响。通过使用半结构化问卷，对50名经过有目的挑选的已婚男性阿拉克酒饮用者及其妻子进行了单独访谈。结果表明，饮用阿拉克酒的人存在行为异常。这引发了家庭问题，女性经常成为丈夫醉酒行为的受害者。尽管暴力侵害妇女行为在孟加拉国农村是一种常见现象，但有人认为，在父权制家庭结构的相互作用下，男性习惯性饮用阿拉克酒的行为与婚姻内暴力侵害妇女事件直接相关。
