Battered women: implications for social control

This paper examines battered women as a systemic problem of social control, involving three structural phases: structure, deconstruction and reconstruction. At the first phase, woman battering occurs in a context of dependency, including economic, social, political, and emotional subordination that...

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Main Author: Davis, Nanette J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1988
In: Contemporary crises
Year: 1988, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 345-372
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Battered Woman
Feminist Movement
Social Control
Societal Change
Systemic Problem

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