Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Voices of strength and resistance: a contextual and longitudinal analysis of women's responses to battering
Other Titles:	Journal of interpersonal violence
Authors:	Kub, Joan Nedd, Daphne Campbell, Jacquelyn Rose, Linda
Keywords:	Leaving/Staying;Theories of violence
Year:	1998
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	13 (6), December 1998
Notes:	Explores the complexity of women’s decision making in relation to relationship status and continuing or ending the abuse. Reviews literature on the survival strategies undertaken by women and the various qualitative and quantitative studies which have examined the processes undertaken by women when responding to abuse. Participants of prior studies were mainly white women. This qualitative US study interviewed women over 3 points in time over a 3 year period. The majority of participants were African American. Examined women’s current experiences of their relationships and other aspects of their lives while still living in an abusive relationship. Results highlight the changeability of the relationship status, and the processes initiated by the women to end the violence. Those actions previously seen to be passive, are recognised as active behaviours used to protect the women, or her children. Theoretical and practical implications of findings are discussed.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12431
ISSN:	0886-2605
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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