Type:	Journal Article
Title:	"The woman is not always the bad guy": dominant discourse and resistance in the lives of battered women
Other Titles:	Violence against women
Authors:	Nichols, Laura Feltey, Kathryn M
Keywords:	Welfare;Theories of violence
Year:	2003
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	9 (7), July 2003
Notes:	Discusses the findings of a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with residents of a mid-west USA battered women’s shelter in the early 1990s. Participants were asked what they believed they needed to enhance their own and their children’s quality of life and the data obtained were analysed with a view to identifying the ways in which women’s perspectives reflect individualised or structural discourses. A ‘continuum of resistance’ was developed to map women’s responses in terms of whether their focus was primarily on survival, equality or transformation. The range of perspectives discovered in the course of the interviews suggested varying levels of consciousness and a diversity of needs not adequately addressed by dominant feminist social change theories and practices. The importance of listening to women’s stories and adopting more participatory responses to domestic violence is highlighted.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12969
ISSN:	1077-8012
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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