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- Title
'Everybody makes choices': victim advocates and the social construction of battered women's victimization and agency.
- Authors
Dunn JL; Powell-Williams M
- Abstract
Semistructured interviews with 32 domestic violence victim advocates illuminate how advocates explain 'battered women who stay.' The interviews show that this behavior is a source of great frustration for advocates, who struggle to simultaneously conceive of battered women as victims trapped by social, psychological, and interactional forces and as agents whose choices must be respected. The authors argue that their organizational subculture and the culture of individualism in the contemporary United States do not provide the ideological and linguistic resources necessary for managing this dilemma. This results in a tendency to overemphasize battered women's choice and thereby diminish the constraints they face.
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2007, Vol 13, Issue 10, p977
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801207305932