"Victims" and "survivors": Emerging vocabularies of motive for "battered women who stay"

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-30

  Dunn, Jennifer L ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 27744511605     PISSN: 00380245     EISSN: 1475682X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.2005.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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