"Everybody makes choices": Victim advocates and the social construction of battered women's victimization and agency

Violence Against Women

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 977-1001

  Dunn, Jennifer L ^a   Powell Williams, Melissa ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Social constructionism; Victimization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BATTERED WOMAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; BATTERED WOMEN; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34748925965     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801207305932     Document Type: Review

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