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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)"”.
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Power, legitimation, and drawing distinctions: Rendering of 'public' and 'private' in United States domestic violence policymaKing
… ideologies, and (more narrowly) to domestic violence policymaKing Historically, treatment of domestic violence as a phenomenon that is relegated to the so-called 'private sphere' has served as justification for limiting such public policy remedies as prevention, intervention and recovery …
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From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist
<p>Women in the U.S. are sexually victimized at high rates and are socialized to believe they are unable to defend themselves. While there is ample evidence that women can successfully fight off assailants using physical force (Clay-Warner, 2002; Ullman, 2007), women’s self-defense training …
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An exploratory study of the effects of abuse on the health of college women with mobility impairments
Violence against women (VAW) is a broad term used to capture aggressive acts committed toward women, which consists of numerous types of violence with the most commonly known types of abuse being emotional, sexual, and physical. One relatively invisible group, women with disabilities, not only …