Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Choice and empowerment for battered women who stay: toward a constructivist model
Other Titles:	Social work
Authors:	Eisikovits, Zvi Winstok, Zeev Enosh, Guy Peled, Einat
Keywords:	Leaving/Staying;Counselling;Representations of women
Year:	2000
Publisher:	National Association of Social Workers
Citation:	45 (1), January
Notes:	Explores the challenges involved for service providers in facilitating the empowerment of battered women who to choose to stay with an abusive partner. The authors suggest that the strategies used to raise domestic violence as a serious social issue have inadvertently created their own myths and injustices, one myth being that women who choose to stay in the relationship are deviant. They examine the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women, as constructed in the literature. They propose a model for operationalising empowerment in the socio-cultural, organisational and individual domains.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13879
ISSN:	0037-8046
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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