Battered Women's Protective Strategies: Stronger Than You Know
Sherry Hamby
Abstract
It is well known that many victims of domestic violence do not follow the conventional advice of the advocacy community. They do not call the police. They do not go to shelters or if they do go to shelters, they leave "early" and return to their batterers. The conventional wisdom says that this is an indication that there is something wrong with these women. It is the thesis of this book that there is something wrong with this deficit-focused paradigm. Battered women protect themselves in many ways. The stereotypes of battered women as passive and in denial are based on a mistakenly narrow vi ... More
Keywords: Battered women, domestic violence, resilience, stereotypes, protective strategies, strengths-based framework, intimate partner violence
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199873654 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199873654.001.0001 |
