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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Abused wives"”.
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"Speaking others, practicing selves: Power, identity, and communications in ""Apna Ghar"" (Our Home)"
… themselves as ""shameless"" or ""dishonorable wives,"" ""immigrants,"" and ""illegal immigrants."" The project also examines how immigrant women in the context of domestic violence resist and transform both patriarchal power and the power of the American social order by reconstructing their …
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A dangerous message: the material effects of Enough
Domestic violence is a cultural epidemic in U.S. society. How we define, perceive, and treat domestic violence is a product of the material rhetorics about it. Since film is a prominent mode of rhetorical discourse, I examine how the issue of domestic violence is represented in the 2002 film …
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Behavior problems in children of battered women
<p>The purpose of this study was to address this question: Is there a relationship between the trauma symptoms of mothers and the behavior problems of their children in the context of domestic violence? Mothers' trauma symptoms significantly correlated with their children's behavior problems in …
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The legal response to men's violence against women (ex-)partners : narrative representation of women's experiences and discourse analysis of lawyer's talk : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Turitea Campus, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Men's violence towards women within the context of intimate relationships is a complex and serious social problem. Particularly problematic are its prevalence and its extensive deleterious effects on women and children's health and psychological wellbeing. The present research was interested in New …
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Attributions for Violence in Relationships: Do Battered Women Blame Themselves?
… who were in violent relationships with those of abused women who had sought shelter and those of women who had never been abused. Both clinicians and researchers (e.g., Frieze, 1979; Walker, 1979) have included victims of marital abuse among victims who self-blame, and have contended that …
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The relationship between the level of alcohol consumption and the incidence of spousal abuse in Euro-American and Hispanic male populations
Text includes English and Spanish versions of questionaires and consent forms.