Empowering Battered Women Transnationally: The Case for Postmodern Interventions

Social Work

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 261-268

  Mills, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Battered women; Domestic violence; Empowerment; International justice; Postmodern theory

Indexed keywords

BATTERED WOMAN; BEHAVIOR; CRIME; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORK; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

BATTERED WOMEN; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL WORK; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0030136348     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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