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Choice and empowerment for battered women who stay: toward a constructivist model
E Peled1, Z Eisikovits, G Enosh
1Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. einatp@post.tau.ac
Abstract:
This article examines the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women who stay, constructed in the professional literature on various ecological levels, and a proposal of a constructivist model for empowering battered women who choose to stay that balances between their needs and rights. The model includes dimensions of physical and emotional distance as well as a time dimension. Key themes related to battered women's options along these dimensions are presented.
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