Beyond staying and leaving: Battered women's responses to abuse
Women who are battered by their intimate partners are simultaneously objects of domination and subjects with the ability to act. Rather than conceive subordination and agency as polar opposites, we must understand them as part of a dialectic that is full of contradictions and tensions. The actions o...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2006
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3212751 |